Unable to set solid colors and gradients as desktop background in gnome-control-center

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

I have the same issue on my systems. Both are 64-bit running 13.04. Attached is a screen shot of the appearance control window.

I had the same problem.

It seems that when I choose a color in the control panel it writes something like:
rgb(78,154,6) in the primary color field of the scheme org.gnome.desktop.background

Changing this by any hexdecimal number fix the problem.

It is worth to be mentionned that I installed the gnome3 ppa before removing it with the ppa-purge command. I don't know if the problem was present before this or not.

Hope that help,
nbl

I didn't install the Gnome 3 PPA, and I have the same issue. I hate paperclicp bugs. A lot of them have been rearing their heads recently.

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center-unity - 1.3daily13.06.13-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center-unity (1.3daily13.06.13-0ubuntu1) saucy; urgency=low

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * use the correct colors format for the background settings libgnome-
    desktop is using GdkColor values but the code was writing GdkRGBA
    ones. The first one are deprecated but since that's what the other
    components want, that's what we should write. (LP: #1173818)

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 27
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Jun 2013 00:02:37 +0000

I just installed the nightly build package on 13.04 AMD-64. Solid backgrounds and gradients are fixed, HOWEVER, the background still goes black when you select a gradient, then click the "<-->" icon between the two colors to flip them. Please investigate and consider re-opening this.

Johnny is correct, the pcolor & scolor switcher will rewrite to RGB, seen in the new 'fixed' 13.10 g-c-c-u package
(users have to then reselect their chosen colors directly

Such a silly bug, easy to reproduce, and probably as easy to fix.
And now, after about two months, a so called fix,
that obvious was not tested at all.
I'm loosing my confidence in software quality...

new bug
Bug 1194137

Hello Shubham, or anyone else affected,

Accepted gnome-control-center-unity into raring-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center-unity/1.3daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

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Fine in raring to extent of this bug.

Bug not completely fixed, when switching primary and secondary colors in case of Vertical and Horizontal gradient, one of the colour still is black. Clicking the "<--->" arrow makes both the colours appear black.

On 6/25/2013 11:03 AM, Shubham Rao wrote:
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center-unity (Ubuntu)
> Status: Fix Released => In Progress
>
> ** Changed in: gnome-control-center-unity (Ubuntu Raring)
> Status: Fix Committed => In Progress
>
This bug didn't mention anything about the pcolor/scolor switcher so as
described it is fixed. New bug was opened on that issue, do as you all
please
LP: #1194137

setting to "verification-done", we have a fix ready and confirmed to work for the most common case, no reason to not get that in, we can fix the color switch thing later

This bug was fixed in the package gnome-control-center-unity - 1.3daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1

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gnome-control-center-unity (1.3daily13.06.19~13.04-0ubuntu1) raring; urgency=low

  [ Sebastien Bacher ]
  * use the correct colors format for the background settings libgnome-
    desktop is using GdkColor values but the code was writing GdkRGBA
    ones. The first one are deprecated but since that's what the other
    components want, that's what we should write. (LP: #1173818)

  [ Łukasz 'sil2100' Zemczak ]
  * debian/control:
    - Modified Vcs-Bzr to point to the maintenance branch
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 20

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * Automatic snapshot from revision 21
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Wed, 19 Jun 2013 00:01:31 +0000

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