Bug 353909

Summary:	please bring back the picture frame widget for Plasma 5
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Janet <bugzilla>
Component:	general	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	RESOLVED NOT A BUG
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bshah, danielstefanmader+kde, pahanaama, plasma-bugs-null, samjnaa, samrog131
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.4.0
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Kubuntu
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Janet 2015-10-14 20:51:27 UTC

Plasma 5 still lacks some widgets which make the desktop "cozy". Apart from a decent weather widget also the picture frame widget is missing. I cannot say that the picture frame widget is useful and that I need it for a certain purpose - but I am missing it it a lot, it helps to make the desktop "mine". Also wish I could have different picture frames for every virtual desktop as I had it in KDE SC 4 but that's another bug/missing feature report...

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 David Edmundson 2015-10-14 22:55:02 UTC

Thanks for the report
Actually someone new took up working on that this week.

We're tracking progress of porting applets on todo.kde.org.
https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=show&project_id=11

I don't want it here as well as we get duplication of data and they'll get out of sync.
Note there is a bug reported already RE: virtual desktops which is here and open.

Comment 2 Janet 2015-10-15 10:52:38 UTC

Thanks for your answer and explanation.

Comment 3 Janet 2015-10-16 13:26:31 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #1)

> We're tracking progress of porting applets on todo.kde.org.
> https://todo.kde.org/?controller=board&action=show&project_id=11

Is it possible to see the content without an account? I guess it would be helpful for users so that they don't report things already being worked on.

Comment 4 pahanaama 2016-03-25 17:34:36 UTC

I was also wondering about this, and found a workaround by using the WebSlice -widget and pointing it to file://path/to/img.file. It works well enough for my purposes (:

Comment 5 Rog131 2016-03-31 14:42:01 UTC

KF5 (Picture) Frame plasmoid: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126793/
Has been submitted.

Comment 6 Shriramana Sharma 2016-06-05 06:57:26 UTC

Can anyone please indicate how to install this right now without waiting for a future version/package release?

Comment 7 Rog131 2016-06-05 10:29:01 UTC

(In reply to Shriramana Sharma from comment #6)
> Can anyone please indicate how to install this right now without waiting for
> a future version/package release?

The kdeplasma-addons 5.6.0 with the Media (picture) frame plasmoid was released 2016-03-22 : https://community.kde.org/Schedules/Plasma_5

With the older plasma the KDE forums has an example: https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=124937&start=15#p350512