Bug 408223

Summary: Copy current wallpaper to an on-disk cache
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: Nate Graham <nate>
Component: generalAssignee: David Edmundson <kde>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: bugseforuns, filipfila.kde, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: 5.15.90   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Nate Graham 2019-06-02 20:33:44 UTC
Currently, wallpapers are accessed from their original paths. This can cause the wallpaper to disappear and display a black background when the file at the path disappears, for any of the following plausible reasons:
- The user was using a wallpaper provided by a distro package that's removed in an update
- The wallpaper was located on an external disk that is unplugged

It might make sense to copy the wallpaper to an on-disk cache location to prevent the background from turning black when one of these conditions is encountered.
Comment 1 Nate Graham 2019-06-02 20:35:56 UTC
This would unblock https://phabricator.kde.org/T10220
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2019-11-14 02:31:23 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 399905 ***