#16774: Pre-populate wallpaper drop-down from directories
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Reporter: bitigchi | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Unscheduled
Component: Preferences/Backgrounds | Version: R1/beta2
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Platform: All |
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Comment (by Starcrasher):
For now, the best solution is to make Tracker Open window default to
data/artwork folder.
The problem is that your wallpaper won't be forcibly there either.
I think the idea is to make Tracker Open window more sensitive to the app
it is called from.
As it is, if you add a folder to favorites it is shared everywhere so you
can't add a lot otherwise it is counter productive.
So, I imagine a kind of additional favorite section that will appear
depending of the mime types that the app supports.
We could have then different favorites folders for images, sounds, music,
videos and other documents.
Maybe a better option would be to propose to the user the choice between
different queries results depending of what they are looking for. Ie. for
Backgrounds different sizes of pictures (we would need at least one for
wallpapers and another for patterns that can be used as mosaïc.), it
would be even better if results had thumbnails or icons. The problem is
that wouldn't work as good for sounds.
And as soon as we will have different sound schemes, we will also have
that problem for Sounds preferences.
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Ticket URL: <https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/16774#comment:2>
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