In 3.6, the Add/remove inline buttons have been removed, and there is no drag-and-drop support (bug #689351).

The result is that it is not possible for the user to create a collection of favorite wallpapers, which was possible in GNOME 3.4 and earlier.

In the current implementation, displaying the contents of XDG images directory (~/Pictures in the English locale) does not recurse (bug #682126) and, more importantly, does not make it possible to easily deal with the large amount of pictures to be expected in a recursive index of all the pictures on a typical user's computer.

For instance, my Images folder is weighs over like 15 gigabytes, containing a mixmatch of photos, logos, drawings, mockups, and finally wallpapers (in my case, as ~/Pictures/wallpapers/, with various subfolders for categories).

If we were to simply recurse through ~/Pictures, we might encounter performance problems and we will have a poor signal to noise ratio; for many users, it will not be manageable from a psychovisual point of view, defeating the purpose of the gnome control center's Wallpaper panel.

However, in combination with the use of Nautilus, EOG and Epiphany to set the wallpaper, there is also a way to alleviate this problem slightly in g-c-c:

<mccann> the intention is to show the wallpapers in order of use as wallpapers
<nekohayo> in order of use as wallpapers?
<mccann> yes
<nekohayo> so it would "remember" which ones you asked nautilus (or eog, epiphany, etc.) to use as wallpapers recently and show them at the top of the iconview first?... that may be a reasonable approach.


In addition to that, there could be a filtering searchbar. So if you have thousands of pictures in ~/Pictures, you could type for (case insensitive) strings in filenames or the path to those files. I suppose that's a separate matter however, so I opened bug #691365 about that.