Bug 237581

Summary: make the wallpaper content pane bigger
Product: [Unmaintained] plasma4 Reporter: SlashDevDsp <slashdevdsp>
Component: wallpaper-imageAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: wishlist CC: asraniel, caionnew, dschaefer79, t.kijas
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Compiled Sources   
OS: Linux   
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Description SlashDevDsp 2010-05-14 08:46:57 UTC
Version:            (using Devel)
Compiler:          g++ 4.3 
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

The current Desktop wallpaper Type:Image content pane is too small. It shows only 3 wallpapers. Could you please make the pane bigger.

1. I do not see the need to have a computer monitor with the wallpaper preview as it takes up space and limits the number of wallpapers shown to 3 at a time. see for a comparison the gnome wallpaper chooser: http://www.techotopia.com/images/4/4c/Ubuntu_change_desktop_background3.jpg

It has a lot more space to show the content the user wants to see, which is to view and select a wallpaper.

I would suggest to remove the preview monitor (as by default you can already see the wallpaper), make the wallpaper content pane bigger, so one can see more wallpapers. 

Another issue with the small wallpaper pane is when you use GNS (Get new wallpapers) after downloading the image filenames are big (123590-yellow-green-wide. 1680x1050) taking up lots of space, that should Ideally be used for showing the wallpaper preview.

http://img263.imageshack.us/i/snapshot1t.jpg/

You could also drop the 'text filename of the wallpaper'.

I hope this makes it into the 4.5?

thanks
Comment 1 disabled account 2010-05-23 02:44:11 UTC
*** Bug 236191 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 2 disabled account 2010-05-23 02:44:46 UTC
*** Bug 215099 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 SlashDevDsp 2010-06-10 03:23:14 UTC
well I hope this feature gets into 4.6 :)
Comment 4 disabled account 2011-05-29 02:49:22 UTC
This is implemented in 4.6.2.