Doing a grep over the gallery-app source code, it doesn't look like it is using mediascanner.
Note that if you stick .nomedia files in the music folder, mediascanner will respect those and make that music disappear from the music scope and app though. Mediascanner is driving the local photos scope though, and these pieces of folder cover art will likely show up there. For internal storage, we could filter out photos in the Music folder (should we also filter out videos? What if an album shipped with some music and some videos and the user stuck the whole lot in the music folder?). For removable media we don't scan media type specific folders, but instead scan the entire volume. So we don't have an obvious way to suppress folder cover art, other than ignoring file names that might be folder art entirely. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to mediascanner2 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1445755 Title: Provide a way to hide images from a particular location Status in Canonical System Image: New Status in gallery-app package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Status in mediascanner2 package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I've put about 30GB of music in my SD card. Some of the music files don't have embedded cover art and their folders contain those cover art images. When I then opened the Gallery app, I noticed I now have thousands of "pictures" imported from the cover art images showing up in my Events and Pictures tabs, cluttering the real pictures I've taken with the camera. Is there a way to tell either mediascanner or the Gallery app to ignore a path and not import/show the images there? E.g. similar to Android, where you can put a .nomedia file in a folder and its images won't show up in the picture viewer. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/canonical-devices-system-image/+bug/1445755/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
