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

[Petko Ditchev <pditchev gmail com>]

In my opinion with the current look and functionality of the control 
centre there is no need to define every wallpaper in an .xml schema . In 
those schemas I saw mostly internationalisation of the wallpaper name 
which is not used. Assuming that the <options><pcolor><scolor> tags are 
super essential I'll leave that thought alone and move on to the next one:
 Let's have an option to choose the "backgrounds" folder in the 
"Pictures" tab of the wallpapers chooser. It's a one button solution 
that doesn't require me to move my backgrounds to a "Pictures" folder 
that ideally I don't want to deal with. It's not that I'm that lazy, but 
since I sync a lot of the information on my computers, pictures and 
backgrounds included, creating some out-of-the-sync-tree folders is 
problematic. Again - it's not just my case, I believe it would be a 
principally better solution.

Petko

On 03/15/2014 12:14 AM, Michael Ikey Doherty wrote:
> 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