Bug 368955

Summary: Slideshow not reloading changed images
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Pit <P.Suetterlin>
Component: Image WallpaperAssignee: Marco Martin <notmart>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: jjm, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.8.0   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
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Description Pit 2016-09-17 14:57:45 UTC
I am using xplanet to render my screen background images.
After kde4 had removed the possibility to directly render to the X root, the workaround was to select  a directory for viewing in slideshow mode, and have xplanet render the image into a file in this directory.
This no longer works with plasma 5.7.4 (openSUSE Tumbleweed), a change of the file is ignored and only the first version loaded when starting plasma is displayed

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create directory, put a jpeg image there
2. Desktop Settings-> Wallpaper Type Slideshow ; add above folder ; set to change every minute
3. change the jpeg image

Actual Results:  
plasma still displays the original version of the image

Expected Results:  
show the changed wallpaper

I tried creating a link in the directory, pointing to the other file.  But even then changes are ignored and only the (internally cached?) version is shown.
Comment 1 Pit 2016-10-14 11:51:08 UTC
Update: Bug still there in version 5.8.0
Comment 2 Jonathan Marten 2017-01-18 14:15:04 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 363860 ***