pentoo-desktop: fork xfdesktop and require it to set default background

pentoo/pentoo-desktop/files/xfce4-desktop.xml

@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
-
-<channel name="xfce4-desktop" version="1.0">
-  <property name="backdrop" type="empty">
-    <property name="screen0" type="empty">
-      <property name="monitor0" type="empty">
-        <property name="image-path" type="string" value="/usr/share/pentoo/wallpaper/domo-roolz.jpg"/>
-      </property>
-    </property>
-  </property>
-</channel>

pentoo/pentoo-desktop/files/xsettings.xml

@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@
     <property name="MenuImages" type="empty"/>
     <property name="ButtonImages" type="empty"/>
     <property name="MenuBarAccel" type="empty"/>
-    <property name="CursorThemeName" type="empty"/>
+    <property name="CursorThemeName" type="string" value="Adwaita"/>
     <property name="CursorThemeSize" type="empty"/>
     <property name="DecorationLayout" type="empty"/>
   </property>

pentoo/pentoo-desktop/pentoo-desktop-2025.3-r1.ebuild

@@ -1,17 +1,16 @@
-# Copyright 1999-2024 Gentoo Authors
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
 # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
 
 EAPI=8
 
 DESCRIPTION="Pentoo meta ebuild to install all X and WM/DE related things"
 HOMEPAGE="https://www.pentoo.org"
-SLOT="0"
+S="${WORKDIR}"
 LICENSE="GPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
 KEYWORDS="amd64 arm ~arm64 x86"
 IUSE="X cups enlightenment +firefox kde livecd-stage1 mate pentoo-in-a-container pentoo-full policykit pulseaudio +vnc +xfce"
 
-S="${WORKDIR}"
-
 #X windows stuff
 PDEPEND="X? (
 		!livecd-stage1? ( || ( x11-base/xorg-server dev-libs/wayland ) )
@@ -90,6 +89,7 @@ PDEPEND="${PDEPEND}
 		x11-themes/tango-icon-theme
 		xfce-base/thunar
 		xfce-base/thunar-volman
+		xfce-base/xfdesktop[pentoo(-)]
 		xfce-extra/thunar-archive-plugin
 		xfce-extra/thunar-vcs-plugin
 		xfce-base/tumbler
@@ -135,7 +135,6 @@ src_install() {
 	insinto /etc/skel/.config/xfce4
 	doins "${FILESDIR}"/helpers.rc
 	insinto /etc/skel/.config/xfce4/xfconf/xfce-perchannel-xml
-	doins "${FILESDIR}"/xfce4-desktop.xml
 	doins "${FILESDIR}"/xsettings.xml
 
 	#gtk-theme-switch needs X so do it manually

xfce-base/xfdesktop/Manifest

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DIST xfdesktop-4.20.1.tar.bz2 2527982 BLAKE2B b9ce68433181221c20b15bab27d1652ef044b0a1524d9acfbff12b40034f629af8b99eebb6b8874816cc37f4db4874ceca03eec51c7cf091795f0b934d3fd20b SHA512 11f422e31fb5b4f789ac61252a79ef9b139fd0a3e29f1346d5e3c06779567f1809fd78d751df5595cdb5510d0349e908276e85f6325b8ac90dfd00c79ca5d0e2

xfce-base/xfdesktop/metadata.xml

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "https://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+  <maintainer type="project">
+    <email>sidhayn@gmail.com</email>
+    <name>Zero_Chaos</name>
+  </maintainer>
+  <use>
+    <flag name="thunar">Build support for desktop icons (for example, launchers and folders)</flag>
+  </use>
+</pkgmetadata>

xfce-base/xfdesktop/xfdesktop-4.20.1.ebuild

@@ -0,0 +1,85 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit xdg-utils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Desktop manager for the Xfce desktop environment"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/start
+	https://gitlab.xfce.org/xfce/xfdesktop/
+"
+SRC_URI="https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/${PN}/${PV%.*}/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+# CC for /usr/share/backgrounds, see backgrounds/README.md
+LICENSE="GPL-2+ CC-BY-SA-4.0"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 arm arm64 ~hppa ~loong ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~sparc x86"
+IUSE="libnotify pentoo pentoo-release +thunar wayland X"
+REQUIRED_USE="|| ( wayland X )"
+
+DEPEND="
+	>=x11-libs/cairo-1.16
+	>=dev-libs/glib-2.72.0
+	>=x11-libs/gtk+-3.24.0:3[wayland?,X?]
+	>=xfce-base/exo-0.11:=
+	>=xfce-base/garcon-0.6:=
+	>=xfce-base/libxfce4ui-4.18.0:=[X(+)?]
+	>=xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.13:=
+	>=xfce-base/libxfce4windowing-4.19.8:=[X?]
+	>=xfce-base/xfconf-4.19.3:=
+	libnotify? ( >=x11-libs/libnotify-0.7:= )
+	thunar? (
+		>=dev-libs/libyaml-0.2.5:=
+		>=xfce-base/thunar-4.17.10:=
+	)
+	wayland? ( >=gui-libs/gtk-layer-shell-0.7.0 )
+	X? ( >=x11-libs/libX11-1.6.7 )
+"
+RDEPEND="
+	${DEPEND}
+"
+BDEPEND="
+	dev-libs/glib
+	dev-util/gdbus-codegen
+	dev-util/glib-utils
+	>=sys-devel/gettext-0.19.8
+	virtual/pkgconfig
+"
+
+# pentoo-desktop depends on xfdesktop but it also installs the background we set in this ebuild
+PDEPEND="pentoo? ( pentoo/pentoo-desktop )"
+
+src_configure() {
+	if use pentoo; then
+		if use pentoo-release; then
+			backdrop="--with-default-backdrop-filename=/usr/share/pentoo/wallpaper/domo-roolz.jpg"
+		else
+			backdrop="--with-default-backdrop-filename=/usr/share/pentoo/wallpaper/tux-winfly-killah.1600x1200.jpg"
+		fi
+	else
+		backdrop=""
+	fi
+
+	local myconf=(
+		$(use_enable wayland)
+		$(use_enable X x11)
+		$(use_enable thunar file-icons)
+		$(use_enable thunar thunarx)
+		$(use_enable libnotify notifications)
+		${backdrop}
+		# these aren't run via make check, they are only for manual use
+		--disable-tests
+	)
+
+	econf "${myconf[@]}"
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+}
+
+pkg_postrm() {
+	xdg_icon_cache_update
+}