Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 08:15:28 you wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: and even then, it would not be trivial to use it from a simple file action script. Eh? You can't easily use d-bus from a service menu? Why not? you can, but think about the

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-15 Thread Jeremiah Summers
you can, but think about the structure of a dbus service that maps to the wallpapers in a multiple-containment layout. i doubt we'd end up with a nice single setWallpaper method without it being rather simplified (e.g. only possible to set the wallpaper for the current desktop, current screen

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-15 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 11:50 AM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 08:15:28 you wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: and even then, it would not be trivial to use it from a simple file action script. Eh? You can't

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, June 11, 2011 08:07:39 Shaun Reich wrote: The issue is simply that plasma's dbus api is virtually nonexistent. There were plans to extend it, (search on techbase.kde.org). and even then, it would not be trivial to use it from a simple file action script. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-14 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, June 10, 2011 23:31:50 Jeremiah Summers wrote: Shantanu, Actually that's what I had her do, but she had saved the image to her desktop so it was copy it into a folder in home then have her drag it back like she was going to move it back to the desktop of course, she

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-14 Thread Shaun Reich
On Tue, Jun 14, 2011 at 12:20 AM, Aaron J. Seigo ase...@kde.org wrote: and even then, it would not be trivial to use it from a simple file action script. Eh? You can't easily use d-bus from a service menu? Why not? -- Shaun Reich, KDE Software Developer (kde.org)

Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-11 Thread Jeremiah Summers
The other day my wife asked me (not a heavy Linux/KDE User) why when she right clicked on an image did she not have an option in Actions to set it as her wallpaper. I thought that was a good question. Remember the KDE 3 days I thought it should be pretty simple (now especially with dbus instead of

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-11 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hi Jeremiah, What I usually do for setting an image as wallpaper is dragging the image from Dolphin and dropping on the desktop, and then select Wallpaper (If your dolphin is maximised, you can hover over the Show Desktop icon). As far as I remember, Plasma doesn't expose a DBus call for setting

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-11 Thread Jeremiah Summers
Shantanu, Actually that's what I had her do, but she had saved the image to her desktop so it was copy it into a folder in home then have her drag it back like she was going to move it back to the desktop then select Set as Wallpaper, When a right mouse click, hover and left mouse

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-11 Thread Shantanu Tushar Jha
Hi, On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Jeremiah Summers jmiah...@gmail.comwrote: Shantanu, Actually that's what I had her do, but she had saved the image to her desktop so it was copy it into a folder in home then have her drag it back like she was going to move it back to the

Re: Change Wallpaper through a Service?

2011-06-11 Thread Shaun Reich
The issue is simply that plasma's dbus api is virtually nonexistent. There were plans to extend it, (search on techbase.kde.org). -- Shaun Reich, KDE Software Developer (kde.org) ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org