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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: "Missing" module for configuring Desktop Backgrounds
From:       Benjamin Meyer <ben () meyerhome ! net>
Date:       2004-10-25 4:06:06
Message-ID: 200410250006.12169.ben () meyerhome ! net
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On Sunday 24 October 2004 9:18 pm, Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> On Sunday 24 October 2004 06:31 pm, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Steven P. Ulrick wrote:
> > > new path and compile a completely fresh installation of KDE.  Please
> > > let me know where the Backgrounds module is Supposed To Be.  Maybe then
> > > I can figure out what I have done wrong (if anything)
> >
> > Well, the KDE Control Center "Background" module is where it's supposed
> > to be:
> >  kdebase/kcontrol/background
>
> Hello Thiago,
> Well, at least now we are moving forward.  Using the information you gave
> me, I found "/usr/local/kde-cvs/share/applications/kde/background.desktop" 
> The only difference that my unlearned mind could find between
> "background.desktop" and the other "*.desktop" files I found at that
> location was that when I clicked on it, the application that it represented
> did not open up.
> I then opened up
> "/usr/local/kde-cvs/share/applications/kde/background.desktop" in a text
> editor, and found what I assumed to be the command that this file calls:
> "kcmshell background"  I then proceeded to run that command from a terminal
> window, with the following result:
> [steve@x1-6-00-c0-f0-55-7c-ff steve]$ kcmshell background
> kio (KSycoca): Trying to open ksycoca from /var/tmp/kdecache-steve/ksycoca
> kcmshell: WARNING: Could not find module 'background'.
>
> Here is my "/usr/local/kde-cvs/share/applications/kde/background.desktop"
> file:
> [Desktop Entry]
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Exec=kcmshell background
> Icon=background
> Type=Application
> DocPath=kcontrol/background/index.html
>
>
> X-KDE-Library=background
> X-KDE-FactoryName=background
> X-KDE-ParentApp=kcontrol
>
> Name=Background
>
> Comment=Change the background settings
>
> Keywords=background,desktops,colors,colours,images,wallpapers,blending,bala
>nce,cache,multiple wallpapers,pixmap

Looks like you simply need to update cvs as your file is missing:

Categories=Qt;KDE;X-KDE-settings-looknfeel;

- -Benjamin Meyer
- -- 
aka icefox
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