FS#9775 - Screensavers missing in KDE control panel screen saver module since recent upgrades

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by David Rosenstrauch (darose) - Thursday, 06 March 2008, 19:42 GMT
Last edited by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 18:51 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:

After recent upgrades, many/most of the xscreensaver modules (e.g., BSOD, several of the GL screensavers like the ant maze, etc.) are no longer visible via the KDE control panel's screen saver module. (See attached screenshot.) When I try to view the savers through xscreensaver's own GUI, though, they show up.

One of the recent upgrades to either KDE (3.5.9) or xscreensaver (5.05) - or perhaps both - is likely responsible.
   ScreenSaversMissingInKDE.png (29.3 KiB)
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Friday, 07 March 2008, 18:51 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  kdeartwork -1.1 for i686
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 06:26 GMT
i cannot confirm this here all show fine, could you try with a brand new user if it still happens?
Comment by Anonymous Submitter - Friday, 07 March 2008, 06:46 GMT
I also noticed the missing screensavers in KDE's control panel(s). I downgraded the xscreensaver package without improvement as a test, so it might well be an issue with newer KDE packages. I am NOT running the kde-mod packages btw.
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 06:51 GMT
i686 or x86_64 affected?
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 08:07 GMT
I can confirm that, for both arches, xscreensavers are not shown in KDE control center.
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 08:34 GMT
I found the cause of this: kdeartwork 3.5.8 was providing .desktop files for the xscreensaver's screensavers in /opt/kde/share/applnk/System/ScreenSavers/. The new package (kdeartwork 3.5.9) only provide the .desktop files for its KDE screensavers.
Comment by David Rosenstrauch (darose) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 15:32 GMT
So this was an upstream change then? Anyone know if anyone at KDE is aware and/or planning to fix it? I did a quick search through bugs.kde.org, but didn't see anything relevant.
Comment by Eric Belanger (Snowman) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 17:27 GMT
The desktop files are still present in the kdeartwork source tarball. Either make install doesn't install them by default anymore or there was a build error.
Comment by David Rosenstrauch (darose) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 17:45 GMT
Must have been a bad build. They're present when I build the package locally. Weird ...
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 18:39 GMT
so why does it still work here?
Comment by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa) - Friday, 07 March 2008, 18:40 GMT
and which architecture you used x86_64 or 686?
on x86_64 it works for me

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