Wallpapers on Fedora

[Allan Mwenda]

Hi everyone
I just noticed a behavior on fedora 25  and I just wanted to share it here as I think it
is not ideal
If you have pictures in the Pictures subdirectory of Home, you can set them as your
background by going to Settings > Background > Pictures Tab. 
However if you gather those pictures in a folder (in my case labelled Wallpapers) then you
can't set them as wallpapers anymore, even though they are still in Pictures, just in
a folder. 
Its not ideal at all, you'd expect everything in there to get detected folders or not.

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[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 11:11 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
>  Hi everyone
>  I just noticed a behavior on fedora 25 and I just wanted to share it
>  here as I think it is not ideal
>  If you have pictures in the Pictures subdirectory of Home, you can
>  set them as your background by going to Settings > Background >
>  Pictures Tab. 
>  However if you gather those pictures in a folder (in my case labelled
>  Wallpapers) then you can't set them as wallpapers anymore, even
>  though they are still in Pictures, just in a folder. 
>  Its not ideal at all, you'd expect everything in there to get
>  detected folders or not. 
If you are referring to gnome-settings, you'll have to speak to
upstream (Gnome) about this. It isn't a Fedora specific behaviour.

You can still open whatever image you'd like to use as a background in
the default image viewer application and right click > set as
background. 
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Regards,
Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha

[Allan Mwenda]

The background setting in gnome-settings was already barebones as is (can't even set a
slideshow of wallpapers) it just feels ever the more bland 

On February 28, 2017 1:46:20 PM GMT+03:00, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 11:11 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
> > Hi everyone
> > I just noticed a behavior on fedora 25 and I just wanted to share it
> > here as I think it is not ideal
> > If you have pictures in the Pictures subdirectory of Home, you can
> > set them as your background by going to Settings > Background >
> > Pictures Tab. 
> > However if you gather those pictures in a folder (in my case labelled
> > Wallpapers) then you can't set them as wallpapers anymore, even
> > though they are still in Pictures, just in a folder. 
> > Its not ideal at all, you'd expect everything in there to get
> > detected folders or not.
>
> If you are referring to gnome-settings, you'll have to speak to
> upstream (Gnome) about this. It isn't a Fedora specific behaviour.
>
> You can still open whatever image you'd like to use as a background in
> the default image viewer application and right click > set as
> background. 
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> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha 
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 15:00 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
>  The background setting in gnome-settings was already barebones as is
>  (can't even set a slideshow of wallpapers) it just feels ever the
>  more bland 
Like I said, this is something that will have to be taken up with Gnome
upstream. I'm not currently aware of any discussion around the
background.

I see an extension here that seems to do what you want:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/543/backslide/

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[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 15:00 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
>  The background setting in gnome-settings was already barebones as is
>  (can't even set a slideshow of wallpapers) it just feels ever the
>  more bland  
Ankur's correct: beyond hotfixing obvious bugs, we intentionally don't
significantly modify GNOME's upstream behaviour downstream in Fedora.
If you think something about how GNOME behaves should be changed, then
the thing to do is contact upstream GNOME - there are mailing lists
available, and also https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ .
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[Allan Mwenda]

Thanks, I'll give it a try, though thus far I haven't really needed any extensions
for GNOME. I try to keep my install as stock as possible so as to report here accurately.
I'll see if I can mailing list the GNOME guys, didn't get very far on IRC. 

On February 28, 2017 4:47:38 PM GMT+03:00, Ankur Sinha <sanjay.ankur(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-02-28 at 15:00 +0300, Allan Mwenda wrote:
> > The background setting in gnome-settings was already barebones as is
> > (can't even set a slideshow of wallpapers) it just feels ever the
> > more bland
>
> Like I said, this is something that will have to be taken up with Gnome
> upstream. I'm not currently aware of any discussion around the
> background.
>
> I see an extension here that seems to do what you want:
> https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/543/backslide/
>
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> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD"
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha 
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