Wishlist: Please add support to add more than one background/theme at a time

[John Vivirito]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I have well over 100 backgrounds and if i wanted to add a whole folder of backgrounds at this time i have to add one at a time and it is very time consuming. As i recall this has been brought up in the past by a few people but i don't ever remember seeing a bug on it. At this time it took forever to add 15 backgrounds and i have not finished yet. If there is any more info needed please let me know.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open System -> Appearances -> Background (or themes ect..)
2. Click Add and start adding them one by one

What should happen at least what would be great to happen:
Open System -> Appearances -> Background tab
Have a button to add a folder
Click the add folder button
Browse to folder desired and add it

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.30.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-22.36-generic 2.6.32.11+drm33.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-22-generic i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 6 21:55:58 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release i386 (20100427.1)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=C
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Thank you for your bug report. This bug has been reported to the developers of the software. You can track it and make comments at: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=620904

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

According to upstream comments: This is already possible for backgrounds using standard file selector
functionality (ie. hold Ctrl/Shift when selecting files)

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Thanks guys. I will test the above workaround or feature (not real sure what one it is)

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Using Ctrl+Shift it is still only 1 at a time since you cant choose a dir. and there is no way to "Select All" in the "dir when choosing "Add"

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

It tested this on Ubuntu 10.10 and it's possible to select all files in a folder with [Strg] + [a], so I am reassigning the upstream bug to the one that is about adding multiple themes at once.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Martin,
what is [Strg] + [a]?

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Oh, sorry, I am using a German keyboard here. [Strg] is [Ctrl] on an English keyboard. So for the background dialog I was able to select all files in a folder by pressing [Ctrl] + [a], but then you can only add them if no folder has been selected, too.

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Martin,
Thanks, i will try it here

[John Vivirito (gnomefreak)]

Martin,
Thanks that works great for backgrounds