Bug 425058

Summary:	Blank wallpaper if "Picture of the Day" is not a picture (i.e., a video)
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	William Kendrick <nbs>
Component:	Picture of the Day wallpaper	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	i, nate, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.2
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505425
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Description William Kendrick 2020-08-06 01:08:08 UTC

When the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) is a video, the KDE wallpaper (via Configure -> Desktop Settings -> Wallpaper Type: "Picture of the Day", Provider: "Astronomy (NASA)") comes out as a solid black background.

Example, from today, 2020-08-05 (August 5, 2020): https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap200805.html shows a YouTube video (source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_UOLpUDwpU).  Because of this, my desktop background is blank (solid black).

It would be nice to either (a) continue using a previous day's APOD picture, or better yet, (b) use a snapshot of the YouTube video. This appears to be possible by fetching from a well-defined URL: https://img.youtube.com/vi/<VIDEO ID>/maxresdefault.jpg
 (In the example above, it would be https://img.youtube.com/vi/X_UOLpUDwpU/maxresdefault.jpg)