GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 589151
Let filechooser fall back to user's pictures folder
Last modified: 2009-07-24 10:47:22 UTC
When opening pictures to view in eog, eye of gnome, the file chooser defaults to the user's home directory. Given that this is an app for viewing pictures, it would be preferable, and a usability improvement, to default to the user's "Pictures" directory within their home folder. There does not seem to be a preference setting for this within eog itself nor in gconf. Tracked by Ubuntu bug #401468 at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eog/+bug/401468 $ apt-cache policy eog eog: Installed: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 2.26.1-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com jaunty/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
Actually, if you launch eog without any images, the filechooser defaults to the current working directory, which happens to be your home folder when you launch it from the panel. But, yes I guess making it a preference (at least a hidden one), to default to the XDG_PICTURES folder instead could be possible.
Updating summary to be more descriptive.
commit 80cc24682e6da921d73ca6b71d517938eaf34649 Author: Felix Riemann <> Date: Fri Jul 24 12:31:47 2009 +0200 Bug 589151 – Let filechooser fall back to user's pictures folder Add a (for now) hidden option to have the filechooser show the user's picture folder ($XDG_PICTURES_DIR) when no image is loaded in the current window. If the folder had not been set up it will fall back to show the currrent working directory. The option has been enabled by default as it seems to be useful on the average desktop system. ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ data/eog.schemas.in | 11 +++++++++++ src/eog-config-keys.h | 1 + src/eog-window.c | 14 ++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 34 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) When I find the time I'll look into adding a checkbox to the preferences window. This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.