Desktop preferences only lists two images in a folder

[Ryan Reamsbottom]

When choosing a custom folder for Wallpaper, only two of the pictures in the folder show up and are selectable. Additionally, the "Custom folder" selector is greyed out after choosing a custom folder, and one has to go to the main settings page and back in order to choose a different folder.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: elementary OS 0.2
Package: elementary-desktop 1.284-0~355~precise1 [origin: LP-PPA-elementary-os-daily]
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-32.51-generic 3.2.30
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-32-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu15
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: elementary_meta
Date: Tue Nov 20 23:43:19 2012
InstallationMedia: elementary OS 0.2 "Luna" - Beta 1 amd64 (20121114)
MarkForUpload: True
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: elementary-meta
SuspiciousXErrors:

ThirdParty: True
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jaap Broekhuizen (jaapz-b)]

I cannot confirm this behaviour. What type of images are in the directory you choose? Are they really big? Did you try adding a different images directory instead? Please post more information.

Seems like it just stops loading the images after those first two...

[Ryan Reamsbottom (ryanrms)]

The folder size was 31.8mb, with files ranging from 4mb to 100kb. I deleted a few pictures and it suddenly started loading the remainder of images. Maybe it was just choking on one particular image file?

Here's an archive of the original folder that was causing the problem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/v6zyzszv9ujkryj/Wallpaper.tar.gz

Hope this helps!

[Jaap Broekhuizen (jaapz-b)]

That definitly helped, I pushed a fix which is now waiting for merge approval. Thanks for your quick response!
Problem was that there was indeed an invalid file, and the wallpaper loader choked on it.

[Ryan Reamsbottom (ryanrms)]

Excellent! Keep up the good work.