Bug 413776

Summary: Feature Request - Plasma Wallpaper - Picture of the Day - Selecting Multiple Sources
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: rbharathkumar <rbharathkumar19>
Component: Picture of the Day wallpaperAssignee: Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: i, kdedev, nate, qydwhotmail
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.27.2   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description rbharathkumar 2019-11-03 16:59:38 UTC 
SUMMARY
Selecting multiple sources for Picture of the Day instead of just one and looping through them after a set time period.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. This is a feature request. My apologies if this is not the right place for this.
2. Currently the Picture of the Day is a Drop Down allowing to select just one source.
3. It would be great if we can make this a radio button where we can select multiple sources.
4. Once we select multiple sources say 6 sources, we should be able to configure  it to change every n minutes or hours.
5. In the future we could configure it to accept URLs from where we can pull walpapers.
6. The pictures can be downloaded to a set size limit and in case of network unavailability we can cycle through those pre-downloaded images.
7. The above mentioned options/ideas are not my own and are already available in the Variety Linux Application. Would be great to have it baked into the desktop itself.


OBSERVED RESULT
Currently feature is not available.

EXPECTED RESULT

1. It would be great if we can make this a radio button where we can select multiple sources.
2. Once we select multiple sources say 6 sources, we should be able to configure  it to change every n minutes or hours.
3. In the future we could configure it to accept URLs from where we can pull walpapers.
4. The pictures can be downloaded to a set size limit and in case of network unavailability we can cycle through those pre-downloaded images.
5. The above mentioned options/ideas are not my own and are already available in the Variety Linux Application. Would be great to have it baked into the desktop itself.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows: 
macOS: 
Linux/KDE Plasma: Fedora 31
(available in About System)
KDE Plasma Version: 5.17
KDE Frameworks Version: 
Qt Version: 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Comment 1 Guo Yunhe 2019-11-04 18:38:59 UTC 
From my knowledge of Plasma POTD, the feature requires:

1. Update configuration UI (QML) to choose multiple sources. (the challenging part)
2. Update wallpaper widget (QML) to switch data engine. (an easy change)

If here are a lot of interests into this feature, we can add it. Not sure if this will make other users' life harder.
Comment 2 rbharathkumar 2019-11-08 02:29:31 UTC 
Thank you for considering my request.
Hopefully it will gather some interest and will be useful to all users making Plasma even better.
Comment 3 TraceyC 2025-04-10 20:00:39 UTC 
I'm afraid there's been no additional interest in this feature request, I'm going to go ahead and close it out.