Bug 455062

This is on git-master frameworks/plasma using the gentoo/kde live-git ebuilds, on qt 5.15.4.  Current kdeplasma-addons commit f3db2b5c84c7e1a7aa1f8f2bef32a8b8ecbf34b0 .  I'm running on wayland without X (other than xwayland) installed.   (Tho I do have weston installed as a wayland compositor backup; I /am/ running live-git kwin/kde, after all.)

Since the PotD rework in April/May, my dual-monitor (side-by-side) layout cannot setup different PotDs for each monitor.  Setting one will either set both to the same PotD provider or do nothing. ( As best I've been able to work out, setting it to PotD from image on one monitor will set it on both, after which I cannot set it to another PotD on the other -- but setting it to a different PotD on the first will reset it to that one on both.  However, I'm not /entirely/ sure that's the specific behavior, while I /am/ sure I can't set different ones on each, sometimes it ignores the setting, sometimes it resets both.)

Despite not being able to set different PotD providers on each monitor, the positioning settings remain distinct -- I can set one to scaled while the other is set to scaled-and-cropped, for instance, and that is honored.

Further, I can still set (local) image (and presumably the other non-PotD choices) separately, both to separate images, and with both set to (the same) PotD, I can set either one to an image.  I just can't set different PotD providers on each one.

The result is that if I want different images on each monitor with a PotD, I must choose a single PotD first and set it, then change the other to a (local) image.


(And while you are looking at this PotD bug, could you see about the long-standing broken-PotD-centering-option bug #389623 as well.  It has existed since at least 2018 as that's when the bug was filed.)