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Bug 662296 - No more indication on the file displayed as backgroud
No more indication on the file displayed as backgroud
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 630468
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Background
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal minor
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-10-20 13:54 UTC by Pedro Villavicencio
Modified: 2012-03-07 11:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 3.1/3.2


Description Pedro Villavicencio 2011-10-20 13:54:34 UTC 
this report has been filed here:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/877734

Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.0-0ubuntu6

"In the "change wallpaper" dialog, hoovering the mouse on the proposed backgounds does not provide any information on the file chosen"
Comment 1 Bastien Nocera 2011-10-20 13:59:43 UTC 
Why would that be a bug?
Comment 2 Robert Roth 2011-10-25 14:53:28 UTC 
In previous versions of the appearance panel, users could see a tooltip when hovering on the background, which contained the Name of the file, the folder it's in, its type (JPEG/Slideshow/...), and the width and height. 

While showing the image resolution and the type of the file is not absolutely needed, I agree that showing the location of wallpapers would be helpful, as backgrounds can be manually added from any path, and the user might forget where did he add the wallpaper from, or the user might want to copy a wallpaper, but he might not know where the wallpaper is located. In these cases the place where a normal user would start looking for the location of the wallpapers would be the background selector panel, to see if it displays the path of the backgrounds loaded.
Comment 3 Bastien Nocera 2011-10-25 15:04:31 UTC 
(In reply to comment #2)
> In previous versions of the appearance panel, users could see a tooltip when
> hovering on the background, which contained the Name of the file, the folder
> it's in, its type (JPEG/Slideshow/...), and the width and height. 
> 
> While showing the image resolution and the type of the file is not absolutely
> needed, I agree that showing the location of wallpapers would be helpful, as
> backgrounds can be manually added from any path, and the user might forget
> where did he add the wallpaper from,

When you add a wallpaper, it's actually copied to a local folder.

> or the user might want to copy a
> wallpaper, but he might not know where the wallpaper is located. In these cases
> the place where a normal user would start looking for the location of the
> wallpapers would be the background selector panel, to see if it displays the
> path of the backgrounds loaded.

It looks very much like bug 630468 would solve your particular problem.
Comment 4 Fabio Durán Verdugo 2011-12-10 18:08:35 UTC 
as per comment 3, can we mark with dup of dup 630468 ?
Comment 5 André Klapper 2012-01-26 10:24:15 UTC 
Pedro / Robert: Can you answer comment 4?
Comment 6 Robert Roth 2012-01-26 10:32:06 UTC 
Sorry for the late response, I have missed the question. Yes, I think letting the user open the background would solve the problem.
Comment 7 Bastien Nocera 2012-03-07 11:44:03 UTC 
Marking as a dupe as per comment 6, thanks.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 630468 ***