Trying to add several images at once crashes Drapes

[missingno]

If I try to select too many files at once to add, or add a whole directory, Drapes will crash. Furthermore, this brings up the bug where Drapes usually loses all my pictures after a crash, but now every time I open preferences it tries to load the large folder of pictures I had tried loading before, and Drapes always crashes, preventing me from using it anymore.

[missingno (nintendorulez1337)]

In case it matters, I'm running Ubuntu 7.10, standard install.

[Oliver Charles (oliver-charles)]

I can somewhat verify this behavior. If I add all my wallpapers (81) and scroll fast up and down the list drapes will crash. I don't get the unlaunchable behavior you get afterwards however, but I think this may be a bug with the automatic directory scanning for some reason.

How many wallpapers are in your wallpapers directory? If you clear your preferences for drapes and re-add these pictures, does it crash if you don't touch the GUI?

[Vincas Dargis (talkless)]

I think I got it - try adding wallpaper with file name that has "%" in it, for example "Abstract%2004.jpg". Multiple image adding is not the case - it's something wrong with file name processing.

Default Ubuntu 8.10.

[OttifantSir (ottifantsir)]

This may be the same behaviour or not.

Ubuntu 9.04 Drapes 0.5.2-1ubuntu2

I tried adding my entire home folder for monitoring of backgrounds and Drapes locked up. I xkill-ed it.

After purging and reinstalling it twice, it won't start anymore.

[Satti (satya-461)]

I am able to reproduce this bug on Ubuntu jaunty 9.04. I was trying to add a folder which has 500 wallpapers and drapes crashes.
when I restart it doesn't show any files which it added before crash.

[Satti (satya-461)]

As Vincas said, I think it is crashing when the file has '%' character. So this is a parsing problem

[Satti (satya-461)]

I meant 'file name' when I said 'file' in the above comment.

[Andrew Sam (mailandrewsam)]

Yep I can confirm having special characters like % and # crashes the app. I had one file name with # in it and one with % in it and it crashed. Excluded them from the list and I could add 80 odd images at one. And I can add the same files after renaming them. now it's working fine.

I guess it's more of a parsing error.