Bug 281590

Summary:	HTML wallpapers are confuse for non experienced users
Product:	[Unmaintained] kdelibs	Reporter:	Saulo Toledo <saulotoledo>
Component:	knewstuff	Assignee:	Jeremy Whiting <jpwhiting>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	gladhorn
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Ubuntu
OS:	Linux
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Description Saulo Toledo 2011-09-08 03:54:06 UTC

Version:           4.7 (using KDE 4.7.0) 
OS:                Linux

Some kde-look wallpapers, when I download from Plasma Desktop Shell, are in HTML format (in reality, they are links for author's website). But If I confirm their installation, they will never work! I saw a lot of users with problems: they install the wallpaper, confirm the question and ask "where is the wallpaper I've downloaded? This software has a bug".

If They don't work, why they are listed at Plasma list?

I vote to simple remove them from the list.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) Open the desktop wallpaper management (Right click on desktop -> Configurations...)
2) Download some wallpapers, some of them will show some message because they aren't images
3) Install some of this wallpapers and see they aren't at wallpapers list.

Actual Results:  
Garbage on wallpapers folder at .kde directory on user home, and no wallpapers.

Expected Results:  
No downloads who don't work...

Comment 1 Christoph Cullmann 2024-09-14 16:18:15 UTC

Hi,

kdelibs (version 4 and earlier) is no longer maintained since a few years.

KDE Frameworks 5 or 6 might already have implemented this wish.

If not, please re-open against the matching framework if feasible or against the application that shows the issue.

We then can still dispatch it to the right Bugzilla product or component.

Greetings
Christoph Cullmann