Bug 418027

Summary:	Newly-connected screens/containments should get the same wallpaper as the most-recent existing screen/containment, rather than the default wallpaper
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Achim Bohnet <ach>
Component:	Containment	Assignee:	Aleix Pol <aleixpol>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde, nate, notmart, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	multiscreen
Version First Reported In:	5.18.1
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Neon
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Achim Bohnet 2020-02-22 11:04:39 UTC

SUMMARY: With Plasma 5.18 'Next' replaced the 'Ice Cold' as default wallpaper.

I what to change the default wallpaper to e.g. Kite.  The wallpager type image
does not allow to set a 'default' wallpaper that is used for all external monitors/TVs/beamers.

The image wallpaper plugin misses a 'Favorite' or 'default' marker for a
selected wallpaper.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Set the wall pager a laptop to a new image (RMB -> configre desktop -> wallpaper)
2. connect any external monitor / TV or beamer

OBSERVED RESULT
New monitor used Kite as wallpaper


EXPECTED RESULT
My selected wallpaper is also used for all monitor / TVs / beamers as their wallpaper

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS

Operating System: KDE neon 5.18
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.1
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.67.0
Qt Version: 5.14.1
Kernel Version: 5.3.0-40-generic
OS Type: 64-bit
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-8565U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 15.4 GiB of RAM

Comment 1 Achim Bohnet 2020-02-23 14:56:22 UTC

*** Bug 418097 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2 David Edmundson 2020-02-23 21:46:15 UTC

Please report future bugs in the style of the problem you are facing, rather than proposing a solution that solves that, it helps us work out which technical solutions fit best especially when we factor in other requests.

I'm not sure whether we actually want to do this, or clone the existing desktop containment on connection of a new monitor.

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2020-02-24 05:27:54 UTC

Not sure about the whole containment, but could we just clone the existing desktop containment's wallpaper?