Bug 254932 - New tool to export images as desktop wallpaper folder [patch]
Summary: New tool to export images as desktop wallpaper folder [patch]
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: digikam
Classification: Applications
Component: Plugin-Generic-WallPaper (show other bugs)
Version: 6.0.0
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Digikam Developers
URL:
Keywords:
Depends on: 217950
Blocks:
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Reported: 2010-10-22 10:24 UTC by Martin Tlustos
Modified: 2019-08-15 12:00 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

See Also:
Latest Commit:
Version Fixed In: 6.1.0


Attachments
Patch with plugin to export img as wallpaper (9.08 KB, patch)
2019-04-02 20:47 UTC, Igor Antropov
Details

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Description Martin Tlustos 2010-10-22 10:24:45 UTC
Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.1) 
OS:                Linux

It would be great if I could select images/folders within digikam and then let them be added to the wallpaper slideshow background feature of plasma.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Comment 1 caulier.gilles 2010-10-22 10:52:58 UTC
For info, this is a private message from Aditya Bhatt about to implement walpaper plugin with Plasma :

// -------------------------------------------------

Hi Gilles, there's this Plasma::Wallpaper entry in the API docs :
http://api.kde.org/4.x-api/kdelibs-apidocs/plasma/html/classPlasma_1_1Wallpaper.html

Looks like you can draw stuff using QPainter...

Regards,
Aditya

// -------------------------------------------------

There is also an entry in plasma here :

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=231574

Gilles Caulier
Comment 2 caulier.gilles 2010-10-22 11:09:12 UTC
Another entry in bugzilla about DBUS way to change wallpaper:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=217950

Gilles Caulier
Comment 3 caulier.gilles 2015-05-19 08:51:02 UTC
*** Bug 192020 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 4 caulier.gilles 2018-11-03 11:01:01 UTC
WARNING : with digiKam 6.0.0 and later, we will not support kipi interface anymore. All tools are now located in digiKam core as well for a plan to provide a more power-full integration with Batch Queue Manager and to be able to export a workflow on a web-service.

All export tools are now available everywhere : album view, Image editor, Light table, and Showfoto. Previously, only album view from digiKam core was able to deal with export tools through libkipi.

All export tools are now located here :

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/utilities/assistants/webservices

All export tools use now a dedicated interface to communicate with the application : 

- digiKam (database) : 

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/libs/database/utils/ifaces/dbinfoiface.h

- Showfoto (files metadata) : 

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/core/utilities/assistants/common/dmetainfoiface.h


There is not direct use of digiKam database for compatibility with Showfoto.

We plan later to provide a dynamic loading of export tools using a plugins mechanism. This will reduce overloading of the internal core libraries. A dedicated devel branch have been created for that, but it's not yet complete:

https://cgit.kde.org/digikam.git/tree/?h=development/dplugins

But take a care, digiKam export tools as plugins will not be shared with another external application. API will still private and only shared between Showfoto and digiKam core. The experience with libkipi was bad and complex to maintain/extend in time.

Gilles Caulier
Comment 5 Igor Antropov 2019-04-02 20:47:38 UTC
Created attachment 119216 [details]
Patch with plugin to export img as wallpaper

I made a simple plugin to set selected image as wallpaper. It is located in Tools->Export as wallpaper.
Comment 6 caulier.gilles 2019-04-02 21:28:17 UTC
Git commit 51aeb061222513cfb3cda52fb80084e04ba5da8f by Gilles Caulier.
Committed on 02/04/2019 at 21:26.
Pushed by cgilles into branch 'master'.

add new plugin from Igor Antropov to set image as linux desktop wall paper.
FIXED-IN: 6.1.0
Related: bug 192020

M  +4    -1    NEWS
M  +4    -0    core/dplugins/generic/tools/CMakeLists.txt
A  +26   -0    core/dplugins/generic/tools/wallpaper/CMakeLists.txt
A  +138  -0    core/dplugins/generic/tools/wallpaper/wallpaperplugin.cpp     [License: GPL (v2+)]
A  +64   -0    core/dplugins/generic/tools/wallpaper/wallpaperplugin.h     [License: GPL (v2+)]

https://commits.kde.org/digikam/51aeb061222513cfb3cda52fb80084e04ba5da8f