Re: Displaying wallpapers in /usr/share/backgrounds/ in settings

[Michael Ikey Doherty <michael i doherty intel com>]

Hi,

As far as I know this isn't possible via dconf. There are a number of
sources available, via the Grilo backend.

Main ones:

~/Pictures:
pictures_path = g_get_user_special_dir (G_USER_DIRECTORY_PICTURES);

Anything from /usr/share/backgrounds *has* to be defined in an XML file
(It's actually been this way for a *long time*)

Check inside /usr/share/gnome-background-properties/*.xml
Here's an example from Fedora's branding changes:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE wallpapers SYSTEM "gnome-wp-list.dtd">
<wallpapers>
    <wallpaper deleted="false">
        <name>Schrödinger’s Cat Animated</name>

<filename>/usr/share/backgrounds/schroedinger-cat/default-animated/schroedinger-cat.xml</filename>
        <options>stretched</options>
    </wallpaper>
</wallpapers>


So, you'd need to provide one for each wallpaper you intended to ship
in /usr/share/backgrounds. This is intended behaviour as those
backgrounds are vendor-shipped (Or, layman's terms, they're already
pre-packaged and accounted for in your distributions repositories)

The easiest thing is to just copy files into ~/Pictures (Localization
may provide a different name, it's your XDG Pictures directory)

- Ikey

On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 22:29 +0200, Petko Ditchev wrote:
> Hello, I want to ask if there's a way (dconf setting or whatever else) 
> to make the wallpaper chooser display non-GNOME wallpapers that are in 
> the backgrounds directory? And as a side question - why restrict to 
> those in the first place ?!
>
> Petko
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