Bug 371163

Summary:	Add support for animated GIFs to kscreenlocker
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	kentallenduke <kentallenduke>
Component:	Image Wallpaper	Assignee:	Marco Martin <notmart>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	bhush94, kde, mgraesslin, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.8.2
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description kentallenduke 2016-10-18 18:17:33 UTC

Support for GIFs on the lockscreen. In Plasma 5.8, KDE implemented videos on the lockscreen. This, however, doesn’t include animated GIFs. When I loaded a GIF to be played on the lockscreen, it just displays the first frame and doesn’t loop.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to the Screen Locking menu in Desktop Behavior (inside System Settings).
2. Click on Wallpaper tab and select Images for "Wallpaper Type"
3. Select GIF 

Actual Results:  
Only frame 1 is displayed of the animated GIF.

Expected Results:  
The lockscreen plays the animated GIF and loops.

Just some small cosmetics adjustment, not too important.

Comment 1 Martin Flöser 2016-10-19 05:44:06 UTC

Reassigning to plasmashell as the support needs to go into wallpaper plugin

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2016-10-19 10:02:38 UTC

>. In Plasma 5.8, KDE implemented videos on the lockscreen. 

No it didn't.

Comment 3 kentallenduke 2016-10-19 10:11:59 UTC

(In reply to David Edmundson from comment #2)
> >. In Plasma 5.8, KDE implemented videos on the lockscreen. 
> 
> No it didn't.

You're right. I meant the new locker can play  "animated wallpapers", but not GIFs.

I wish I can correct the original post, but I can't.

Comment 4 David Edmundson 2016-10-19 10:18:09 UTC

I had a look, there's a different QML type for dispaying animated images: AnimatedImage. 

Following the tutorial here, https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showthread.php?67703-Kubuntu-video-wallpaper it would be easy enough to add as a wallpaper type.

However, this is the sort of feature that belongs in a different wallpaper plugin on store.kde.org, not in core Plasma.