Bug 164958

Summary:	make desktop containment functionality public
Product:	[Plasma] plasma4	Reporter:	David Palacio <dpalacio>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description David Palacio 2008-06-25 20:38:52 UTC

Version:            (using KDE 4.0.83)
Installed from:    Compiled From Sources

The desktop containment functionality should be made public either by creating «public slots» or «dbus» calls. For example:
* QString currentWallpaper();
* void nextWallpaper();

This would make possible an applet that switches wallpapers.

Comment 1 Chani 2008-06-26 01:38:51 UTC

actually, we're planning to have a plugin system in 4.2 for handling wallpaper.
dbus does sound like a nice idea, although I haven't thought it through and I've no idea how easy/hard it would be with multiple containments and such...

Comment 2 David Palacio 2008-12-02 15:54:03 UTC

«public slots», gah! I actually read Qt's documentation and it does not care about visibility when it is about connections.

I have made a simple applet that changes wallpapers and can deal with a single containment among many.

http://github.com/dpalacio/plasma-nextwallpaper/tree/master

Now to see if it can be translated to QtScript.