SUMMARY I tried to add some live to my desktop and decided to switch from static wallpaper into dynamic like slideshow. I was surprised when I found that there wasn't add any default folder with wallpapers. I believe that Plasma provide couple wallpapers by default, that are install in /usr/share/wallpapers. I'm not sure if this is issue on Plasma side or maintainers in specific Linux distribution who provide KDE/Plasma desktop in theirs distribution. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. RMB on desktop 2. "Configure desktop -> Wallpaper" 3. Change value in Wallpaper type from "Image" into "Slideshow" OBSERVED RESULT Folders is empty, no any wallpaper available despite in default folder with wallpaper there is couple. EXPECTED RESULT Folders has defalut folder with wallpapers like: "/usr/share/wallpapers SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: YES (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.17.4 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.65 Qt Version: 5.13.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
That's a good point.
I submitted a patch to fix this: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26483
Git commit 8be6fb749ced517546f1873196cdb37d7024c7cc by Nate Graham. Committed on 14/01/2020 at 21:55. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [wallpapers/image] Add default XDG wallpaper locations for slideshow Summary: FIXED-IN: 5.18.0 Depends on D26510 Right now when you first change the wallpaper plugin to slideshow, no locations are pre-configured, so you have to add one yourself. This patch adds a `preferred:wallpaperlocations` token as the default that gets replaced in the user's config file at runtime with the XDG wallpaper locations. Test Plan: Log in as new user > right-click desktop > configure > change to slideshow wallpaper See that`/usr/share/wallpapers` is already in the list of wallpaper locations; how nice Reviewers: #plasma, #vdg, ndavis, davidedmundson Reviewed By: #plasma, #vdg, ndavis, davidedmundson Subscribers: davidre, broulik, davidedmundson, ndavis, plasma-devel Tags: #plasma Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D26483 M +9 -5 wallpapers/image/image.cpp M +1 -1 wallpapers/image/slideshowpackage/contents/config/main.xml https://commits.kde.org/plasma-workspace/8be6fb749ced517546f1873196cdb37d7024c7cc