@msuchy I did a few years back an blog post why we cant serve this. The truth is you have one screen landscape for work/coding and the portrait one is for reading documentation. So problem starts with how much variations that opens, I also I think explained it on the devel ml.

We actually had an GSoC student working on a feature for Nuancier for Multiscreen setup and wallpapers for it. I dont know the exact status, he did do something but not enough to integrate it into Nuancier @pingou I think can give there more information.

Producing the default wp for multiscreen setup and also package it will become such huge workload that it becomes mission impossible

Not sure what you mean by "how much variations"?

I use KDE and I can have there independent wallpapers for each screen. So I have one for my landscape-oriented screen. And other for my portrait-oriented screen.

To be precise - I do not want a wallpaper that nicely spawns across multimonitor setup. I want only wallpaper that fit one portrait-oriented screen.

I bet there are dozens of photographs shot in portrait mode, so I do not need to cut off photographs which were intended for landscape mode.

yes for yours. You have portrait I assume on the left side as you are programmer, a lefthanded designer like me has his on the other side, because thats the one for the tool bar and for the mouse hand. Left side is for the drawing pad. You might have two monitors same size, but a lot of others have different sized monitors there. So now look for the amount of variations in monitor sizes, its not 16:9 and 4:3 anymore and can be scaled for each different setup a wallpaper has to be exactly produced (cutted from a big picture) to fit as a continuous wallpaper and thats what the people want.

hey @msuchy! as @gnokii mentioned, we had a google summer of code intern work on a feature for our supplemental wallpaper submission system - called nuancier (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/nuancier/) - to allow for landscape / portrait / multimonitor setups. we're not quite sure of the status of that, but enabling portrait submissions would depend on this feature landing in nuancier.

we can check in with the nuancier upstream owner @pingou to see what the status of that work is, but unfortunately we can't accept portrait submissions right now because of that technical limitation in nuancier, which we use to manage the submission / acceptance / voting process for supplemental wallpapers each release. :(

i'm going to leave this open for now to track getting the status of the feature from @pingou.

The work of the GSOC student never went anywhere, it was never finished nor merged. If we wanted this feature, I'd pretty much recommend we restart from scratch (I'm not even sure if the code from the student is still accessible).

Thanks pingou, I'm going to close this ticket then because we can't expand the wallpaper guidelines without the infrastructure to support it.

@pingou I just checked the Nunancier source code and I found just one thing which blocks uploading portrait wallpapers - PICTURE_MIN_WIDTH. If you set this to 1200 then you can upload portrait wallpapers. The thumbnail is defined as (square) bounding box 256*256 and images are displayed using tag without width or height attribute.
IMHO you can easily create a new pool called "Portrait wallpapers" and people can submit portrait oriented photos and it will just work. Or I am missing something?

@msuchy the sizing reinforces the aspect ratio, i dont think making it a square is going to be good bc then invalid ratio uploads will go through.

@msuchy easily created maybe, but no way to take this extra burden of work

@duffy the bounding box is a square box. So current thumbnails for the landscape are 256144. And if you upload portrait picture current code will produce thumbnail 144256.

@gnokii I do not get it. Instead of one pool, you will have two pools and two sets of background.

yeah, two pools and two times much more work. I am not hired by RedHat and can spend all my time working on Fedora. You seem not to know how much time this consumes.

@msuchy i dont mean the thumbnail values, i mean the min width. 1200 is below the current min width right?

@duffy for landscape yes, but Nuancier check only the width and height. It does not check ratio. You can submit 2000px * 2000px or even 2000px * 4000 px today.