GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 762894
Wallpaper changes colors?
Last modified: 2018-01-02 18:48:18 UTC
For some reason Ubuntu seems to change the colors of the wallpaper you apply. It this a nautilus issue or some other package? If you look at this album: http://imgur.com/a/wD4sx - You can see the following: image 1 (from the top): Ubuntu shows the image correctly when opening in image viewer (look at the orange color!) image 2 (from the top): This is how the image looks applied. Why is it changing the colors? image 3: (the one in bottom): Windows 10 virtualbox. Windows can figure out how to apply the colors correctly. Why can't Ubuntu.. ? I have tested it with Ubuntu Gnome 15.10 Xubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04 daily, and Linux Mint(nautilus fork, nemo). They all have the same problem. As soon as the wallpaper is applied it changes the colors from the orange to less-orange.. It really weird. I can't figure out what's going on. It works just fine in Windows and OSX. Link to image download: https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5586/14961556102_13f1b039b4_o_d.jpg I have the same "problem" on my desktop (nvidia drivers) and laptop (Intel GPU drivers) Feel free to ask for more information if needed or a solution. Thank you for your time.
New info: I have discovered the cause. It seems that nautilus converts a .jpg to .png? when setting the wallpaper, which apparently causes the colors to be different. So a quick solution is to convert the .jpg to .png and then apply the .png. then the colors are correct. Is this intentional?
Starting with version 3.28, nautilus will not handle the "files on desktop background" feature. For better alternatives, read this blog post https://csorianognome.wordpress.com/2017/12/21/nautilus-desktop-plans/