All the upstream GNOME backgrounds were intentionally removed two years ago, by @ryanlerch. I thought they were supposed to be replaced by Fedora backgrounds, though. Surely there should be more than just two options, here. Perhaps Ryan could investigate?

Actually, it was one year ago: https://src.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/gnome-backgrounds.git/commit/gnome-backgrounds.spec?id=ac206fdca9b3f4c41fd2d088f47a7477ea458592

All the upstream GNOME backgrounds were intentionally removed two years ago, by @ryanlerch.

It would be useful to know what the reasoning was there. I'd also be interested to see a comparison of the upstream and downstream background sets.

It would be useful to know what the reasoning was there.

I found #12

I'd also be interested to see a comparison of the upstream and downstream background sets.

Maybe Ryan could help with this.

Anyway, right now there are no backgrounds at all, as you note, so one way or another we need to fix that. I see fedora-workstation-backgrounds was added to comps in https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/c/759becb44f63137cf349e1b43b2c370ae472e207?branch=master. But it is not today present in comps-f28.xml or comps-f29.xml. I don't know when or why it was removed, but we can surely fix this by adding it back.

Anyway, right now there are no backgrounds at all, as you note, so one way or another we need to fix that

Yes, sorry. Let's stick to restoring the intended behaviour.

Hopefully should be fixed by https://pagure.io/fedora-comps/pull-request/305

Merged into rawhide, please reopen if it's still an issue. Note this was a comps issue and there is no upgrade path, so users who installed F28 will never see these backgrounds.