On Fri, 31 Jul 2026 at 11:27:10 +0000, Q Q wrote:
When using desktop-base in Debian with modern desktop environments such as KDE
Plasma 6, the Ceratopsian wallpapers appear twice in the wallpaper selection
menu.
I think it's misleading to say "modern desktop environments": GNOME
(gnome-control-center) doesn't seem to have this problem. It might be
specific to Plasma, or desktop environments that follow a particular
pattern for enumerating possible wallpapers, or a subset of the
supported desktop enviroments that includes Plasma but not GNOME.
The issue is caused by the presence of two separate symlinks inside /usr/share/
wallpapers/ with different names (ceratopsian and DebianTheme), both of which
point to the same base wallpaper resource (Ceratopsian). Plasma 6 scans both
symlinks independently and treats them as different entries
Whichever Plasma component is responsible for listing possible
wallpapers could equally well address this by deduplicating the themes
by their realpath(), or by the contents of their metadata.json, or some
other suitable unique identifier.
Actually, /usr/share/wallpapers/ seems to contain *three* separate
symlinks to ceratopsian: ceratopsian and ceratopsian_wallpaper point to
it directly, and DebianTheme points to it via /etc/alternatives. Perhaps
Plasma is already doing this deduplication, but only for direct
symlinks, and not for symlink-to-a-symlink?
smcv
