| Summary: | Add wallpaper open dialog should default to last used location | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] plasmashell | Reporter: | David Tonhofer <bughunt> |
| Component: | Image & Slideshow wallpaper plugins | Assignee: | Marco Martin <notmart> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bugseforuns, kde, nate, plasma-bugs-null, qydwhotmail |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | junior-jobs |
| Version First Reported In: | master | ||
| Target Milestone: | 1.0 | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/688b586e5d82c5100ddd7228a06d30dda6b93e06 | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 6.7.0 |
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| Attachments: | I want a new Wallpaper: By default, go to ~/Pictures | ||
What's wrong with defaulting to your Pictures folder? Well, the Pictures folder is actually just a work folder (it contains screenshots among other), not a repository of Wallpapers, which are somewhere in an Archive folder. I'm not adding a UI option to choose a directory to later choose files from. That's overcomplicating the UI for little gain. Making it open the last used folder is doable. > Making it open the last used folder is doable.
That seems sensible to me.
Sounds cool. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6208 A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6208 A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6208 I have submitted a merge request regarding this issue kindly check it: https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/merge_requests/6208 Git commit 688b586e5d82c5100ddd7228a06d30dda6b93e06 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Sangam Pratap Singh. Committed on 04/02/2026 at 17:35. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. wallpapers/image: remember last-used folder in wallpaper picker Previously, the file dialog always defaulted to the Pictures folder. This change remembers the last selected folder so that subsequent attempts to add a wallpaper start from the user's last used location. FIXED-IN: 6.7.0 M +11 -14 wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/AddFileDialog.qml M +61 -0 wallpapers/image/plugin/imagebackend.cpp M +11 -0 wallpapers/image/plugin/imagebackend.h https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/688b586e5d82c5100ddd7228a06d30dda6b93e06 |
Created attachment 110180 [details] I want a new Wallpaper: By default, go to ~/Pictures Currently when getting new Wallpapers, the Wallpapering dialogue goes to ~/Pictures (at least in a Fedora 27 KDE configuration). Better: Allow configuring the default wallpaper directory, possibly in the "System Configuration" supermenu. (Actually, allow setting an URI including a file:// URI and a time interval so that it is updated automatically at fixed intervals and ... nah, too complex for such a use case)