Also see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=709366

From version 3.12 you can add extra directories from Settings -> Search and those should be picked up by gnome-photos. See bug 696802

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 696802 ***

This is not a duplicate of bug 696802 - in that bug the requestor asks that ~/Downloads be removed from the search path.

My request is that gnome-photos should use the search path indexed by Tracker - this is logical and follows the logic of gnome-documents.

Since I compiled gnome-3.10.x from source, I really do not want to upgrade to gnome-3.12.x to fix this, is there a patch which will work with gnome-photos-3.10.x?

(In reply to comment #4)
> This is not a duplicate of bug 696802 - in that bug the requestor asks that
> ~/Downloads be removed from the search path.

It is. Please read all the comments on the bug. :)

> My request is that gnome-photos should use the search path indexed by Tracker -
> this is logical and follows the logic of gnome-documents.
>
> Since I compiled gnome-3.10.x from source, I really do not want to upgrade to
> gnome-3.12.x to fix this, is there a patch which will work with
> gnome-photos-3.10.x?

You can try backporting the patch in bug 696802

The first two hunks of the patch succeed, but the third hunk fails on gnome-photos-3.10.2

It appears the third hunk references a couple of lines of code that don't exist - when I try to apply the patch manually, gnome-photos compiles, but fails when run with an error message about missing "}" or similar :(

(In reply to comment #6)

Is there a pressing reason why you can't use 3.12?

GNOME 3.10 is more than six months old and this being a relatively young application I am not very interested in backporting non-critical patches unless there is a good reason for it.

The good reason is that I compiled gnome-3.10.x from scratch from source and I would likely have to recompile most or all of it just to update gnome-photos from 3.10.x to 3.12.x :)