GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 757097
Control-Center add custom path to look for available pictures
Last modified: 2015-10-27 22:55:16 UTC
Right now, in Gnome-Control-Center, when choosing a background image, under the "pictures" tab, the only pictures that will show up are those at the base of the /home/USER/pictures folder. I believe a better implementation would be to allow the user to select a specific folder in which to look for available pictures, which is what is done on KDE, OS X, and even Windows for as long as I can recall. Further, if the user goes the route of right-clicking a picture in nautilus, and choosing "select as wallpaper", the image gets copied into a Wallpapers folder. This behavior is fine, accept that Gnome-Control-Center doesn't even use the /pictures/Wallpapers folder to look for images, thus if you preemptively put your background images in that folder, they will not show up in control-center, which is slightly confusing. What is even more annoying though, is that if you already have a /pictures/Wallpapers folder, and you right click and image and apply it as background from within, it creates an unnecessary copy of that image right next to the main image. While the Gnome-Control-Center is being reconfigured, as I saw drafted, please take the time to enhance the functionality of the desktop backgrounds. It is a really important feature, yet often overlooked due to the apparent simplicity, that needs some love.
(In reply to Britt Yazel from comment #0) > I believe a better implementation would be to allow the user to select a > specific folder in which to look for available pictures Why do you think so?
(In reply to Britt Yazel from comment #0) > Right now, in Gnome-Control-Center, when choosing a background image, under > the "pictures" tab, the only pictures that will show up are those at the > base of the /home/USER/pictures folder. > > I believe a better implementation would be to allow the user to select a > specific folder in which to look for available pictures, which is what is > done on KDE, OS X, and even Windows for as long as I can recall. See bug 682126 > Further, if the user goes the route of right-clicking a picture in nautilus, > and choosing "select as wallpaper", the image gets copied into a Wallpapers > folder. This behavior is fine, accept that Gnome-Control-Center doesn't even > use the /pictures/Wallpapers folder to look for images, thus if you > preemptively put your background images in that folder, they will not show > up in control-center, which is slightly confusing. What is even more > annoying though, is that if you already have a /pictures/Wallpapers folder, > and you right click and image and apply it as background from within, it > creates an unnecessary copy of that image right next to the main image. See bug 712245
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 712245 ***
(In reply to André Klapper from comment #1) > Why do you think so? I think so because otherwise the root of the /pictures folder is the one and only place that you can keep your background images that you would like to be easily accessible from the backgrounds options in Gnome-Control-Center. Many people, such as myself, have different organization strategies, or use the root of the /pictures folder for other purposes than storing background wallpapers. I tend to keep my wallpapers in a /pictures/wallpapers folder, which is invisible in the background options.