Bug 505425

Summary:	NOAA Picture of the Day plugin broken
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Kat Pavlu <realkpavel>
Component:	Picture of the Day wallpaper	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	major	CC:	i, nate, qydwhotmail
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	6.3.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Fedora RPMs
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425058 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=505430
Latest Commit:	https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/fa99e4911238eb5faa0c9b77448890e12d7fe781	Version Fixed In:	6.5.0
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Description Kat Pavlu 2025-06-10 10:53:44 UTC

SUMMARY
When the NOAA Picture of the Day source is used, the wallpeper is set to a solid black field instead. This is probably because the website in the plugin (kdeplasma-addons/wallpapers/potd/plugins/providers:noaaprovide.cpp) now redirects to https://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/imagery/collections/satellite-snapshots, and the latest blogpost includes a video instead of an image. 

Unfortunately, about half of the recent blogposts on the site include some sort of video or animation rather than a picture. So either this should be handled (eg. use the latest blogpost that has a picture) or the plugin is not really usable.

Probably relevant: 425058
tho I don't think it is a duplicate, since the POTD plugins all have a slightly different backend.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.3.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.14.0
Qt Version: 6.9.0
Kernel Version: 6.14.9-300.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700U w/ Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx
Memory: 13.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: AMD Radeon Vega 10 Graphics
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 20NKS52L02
System Version: ThinkPad T495

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2025-06-10 15:20:04 UTC

Can confirm. Bug 425058 seems quite relevant indeed.

Given the recent change to content type here and the ongoing political turmoil in USA government agencies, I would suspect we can't count on the NOAA provider working well going forward, and recommend removing it.

Comment 2 Bug Janitor Service 2025-06-12 17:48:51 UTC

A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/869

Comment 3 Kat Pavlu 2025-06-17 22:20:50 UTC

Git commit fa99e4911238eb5faa0c9b77448890e12d7fe781 by Kat Pavlů.
Committed on 16/06/2025 at 13:05.
Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'.

Remove NOAA POTD provider

The NOAA blog recently changed the type of content they post on their
daily blog. Abot 50% of the posts now include a video instead of
an image. Nate Graham recommended the plugin be removed in the linked
issue.

M  +0    -3    wallpapers/potd/plugins/providers/CMakeLists.txt
M  +1    -1    wallpapers/potd/plugins/providers/PoTD-list.txt
D  +0    -114  wallpapers/potd/plugins/providers/noaaprovider.cpp
D  +0    -31   wallpapers/potd/plugins/providers/noaaprovider.h
D  +0    -51   wallpapers/potd/plugins/providers/noaaprovider.json

https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/fa99e4911238eb5faa0c9b77448890e12d7fe781