Public bug reported:
Currently in Nautilus if one right-clicks on an image file and clicks
"Set As Wallpaper" it will set that image as the current wallpaper after
moving it to the Wallpapers folder in ~/Pictures. This is all very well,
however if I then set another image as my wallpaper, and then come back
and want to set the one I previously set as my wallpaper, if I right-
click on it and choose the option to set it it will tell me that an
image with the same name already exists in the Wallpapers folder and it
asks me if I want to replace it.
Now this is something I really would not expect of it, I would expect
Nautilus to deal with such a situation more cleanly.
So my suggestion would be, once one selects an image to be the wallpaper
it is moved to the Wallpapers folder but also renamed so that the issue
described above does not occur. Another thing which may be good would be
for it to check if there is currently a file in the Wallpapers folder
which in terms of contents is identical to the one you are trying to
set, then it could just set the one currently in the Wallpapers folder
as the wallpaper.
As the wallpaper files will now probably have strange names (well, each
one could be called something like "wallpaper-1", and the number would
increment each time), it may also be a good thing to not have the
Wallpapers folder in ~/Pictures where it currently is and instead have
it somewhere more internal and hidden away to avoid causing confusion,
and anyway, if all this is implemented then there will be no need for it
to be so visible. But this bit is just a suggestion, the main point of
this report is to have a more clean way of dealing with duplicate files,
or at least settings ones that have the same name as a previously set
file located in Wallpapers.
** Affects: nautilus
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Affects: ubuntu-gnome
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Description changed:
Currently in Nautilus if one right-clicks on an image file and clicks
"Set As Wallpaper" it will set that image as the current wallpaper after
- moving it to the Wallpaper folder in ~/Pictures. This is all very well,
+ moving it to the Wallpapers folder in ~/Pictures. This is all very well,
however if I then set another image as my wallpaper, and then come back
and want to set the one I previously set as my wallpaper, if I right-
click on it and choose the option to set it it will tell me that an
- image with the same name already exists in the Wallpaper folder and it
+ image with the same name already exists in the Wallpapers folder and it
asks me if I want to replace it.
Now this is something I really would not expect of it, I would expect
Nautilus to deal with such a situation more cleanly.
So my suggestion would be, once one selects an image to be the wallpaper
- it is moved to the Wallpaper folder but also renamed so that the issue
+ it is moved to the Wallpapers folder but also renamed so that the issue
described above does not occur. Another thing which may be good would be
- for it to check if there is currently a file in the Wallpaper folder
+ for it to check if there is currently a file in the Wallpapers folder
which in terms of contents is identical to the one you are trying to
- set, then it could just set the one currently in the Wallpaper folder as
- the wallpaper.
+ set, then it could just set the one currently in the Wallpapers folder
+ as the wallpaper.
As the wallpaper files will now probably have strange names (well, each
one could be called something like "wallpaper-1", and the number would
increment each time), it may also be a good thing to not have the
- Wallpaper folder in ~/Pictures where it currently is and instead have it
- somewhere more internal and hidden away to avoid causing confusion, and
- anyway, if all this is implemented then there will be no need for it to
- be so visible. But this bit is just a suggestion, the main point of this
- report is to have a more clean way of dealing with duplicate files, or
- at least settings ones that have the same name as a previously set file
- located in Wallpaper.
+ Wallpapers folder in ~/Pictures where it currently is and instead have
+ it somewhere more internal and hidden away to avoid causing confusion,
+ and anyway, if all this is implemented then there will be no need for it
+ to be so visible. But this bit is just a suggestion, the main point of
+ this report is to have a more clean way of dealing with duplicate files,
+ or at least settings ones that have the same name as a previously set
+ file located in Wallpapers.
** Also affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- Nautilus should deal with duplicate wallpapers being set more cleanly
+ Nautilus should deal with setting Wallpapers more cleanly
** Summary changed:
- Nautilus should deal with setting Wallpapers more cleanly
+ Nautilus should deal with setting Wallpaper with duplicate names more cleanly
** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #769748
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769748
** Also affects: nautilus via
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=769748
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1612295
Title:
Nautilus should deal with setting Wallpaper with duplicate names more
cleanly
Status in Nautilus:
Unknown
Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
New
Status in nautilus package in Ubuntu:
New
Bug description:
Currently in Nautilus if one right-clicks on an image file and clicks
"Set As Wallpaper" it will set that image as the current wallpaper
after moving it to the Wallpapers folder in ~/Pictures. This is all
very well, however if I then set another image as my wallpaper, and
then come back and want to set the one I previously set as my
wallpaper, if I right-click on it and choose the option to set it it
will tell me that an image with the same name already exists in the
Wallpapers folder and it asks me if I want to replace it.
Now this is something I really would not expect of it, I would expect
Nautilus to deal with such a situation more cleanly.
So my suggestion would be, once one selects an image to be the
wallpaper it is moved to the Wallpapers folder but also renamed so
that the issue described above does not occur. Another thing which may
be good would be for it to check if there is currently a file in the
Wallpapers folder which in terms of contents is identical to the one
you are trying to set, then it could just set the one currently in the
Wallpapers folder as the wallpaper.
As the wallpaper files will now probably have strange names (well,
each one could be called something like "wallpaper-1", and the number
would increment each time), it may also be a good thing to not have
the Wallpapers folder in ~/Pictures where it currently is and instead
have it somewhere more internal and hidden away to avoid causing
confusion, and anyway, if all this is implemented then there will be
no need for it to be so visible. But this bit is just a suggestion,
the main point of this report is to have a more clean way of dealing
with duplicate files, or at least settings ones that have the same
name as a previously set file located in Wallpapers.
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