Bug 425058 - Blank wallpaper if "Picture of the Day" is not a picture (i.e., a video)
Summary: Blank wallpaper if "Picture of the Day" is not a picture (i.e., a video)
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: plasmashell
Classification: Plasma
Component: Picture of the Day wallpaper (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.27.2
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: 1.0
Assignee: Plasma Bugs List
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Reported: 2020-08-06 01:08 UTC by William Kendrick
Modified: 2025-06-10 15:20 UTC (History)
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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)