Hard links don't work across mount points. So if the user picks a wallpaper that does not reside in his/her home folder it may not work depending upon how their system was set up.
For example I had a system where most of my image/music data was on a separate mounted volume from my home directory. Hardlinks wouldn't work in this case. Symlinks would but then you're back to the loss of wallpaper on delete issue. -- Deleting an image that's used as a desktop wallpaper removed it as a wallpaper without notice https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/344228 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
