There a task assigned to a student this summer to open Plasma API for wallpaper purpose. I mentored him to patch Plasma and write relevant Kipi plugin for digiKam.
This code (this patch) for Plasma is not yet integrated to KDE core. For me, it become urgent that KDE desktop provide this simple and usefull feature... For details look here : http://community.kde.org/Digikam/SoK2012/WallpaperPlugin https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254932 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217950 https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/105319/ Best Gilles Caulier 2012/9/5 Nicolás Alvarez <nicolas.alva...@gmail.com>: > 2012/9/5, Alexander Neundorf <neund...@kde.org>: >> On Wednesday 05 September 2012, Jeremy Whiting wrote: >>> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 11:30 AM, Alexander Neundorf <neund...@kde.org> >> wrote: >>> > On Wednesday 05 September 2012, Shaun Reich wrote: >>> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Tomaz Canabrava <tcanabr...@kde.org> >> wrote: >>> >> > 2012/9/5 Weng Xuetian <wen...@gmail.com>: >>> >> >> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 9:48 AM, kevinzhow <kevincho...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >>> >> >>> hello~ >>> >> >>> >>> >> >>> Sorry to brother,I don not know which channel should i send this >>> >> >>> mail exactly , so i send this mail to kde, kde-devel and >>> >> >>> ode-core-devel, but i really need this help, please >>> >> > >>> >> > This looks like the KDE Get Hot New Stuff for the desktop wallpaper, >>> >> > from your screenshoots. >>> >> > why don't you create a backend for the GetHotNewStuff for your >>> >> > wallpapers? >>> >> >>> >> there's more to it than just "a source for wallpapers" afict, so i >>> >> don't think that's a valid solution. >>> > >>> > This should be possible using wget and some dbus calls, shouldn't it ? >>> > >>> > Alex >>> >>> No, I don't think any plasma containments expose their configuration on >>> dbus. >> >> In KDE3 it was possible to set the wallpaper via dcop in kdesktop. So we >> can't >> do this anymore ? > > In the past, a desktop had a wallpaper. Now, a plasma desktop can have > one or more desktop containments (activities) which may have any > wallpaper plugin which may or may not have the concept of a static > image that you can configure. > > -- > Nicolás >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<