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There is already org.kde.plasmashell PlasmaShell/org.kde.PlasmaShell/setWallpaper, so it should be pretty straightforward.
> the wallpaper interface of the freedesktop specification. What are you referring to?
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This one: https://flatpak.github.io/xdg-desktop-portal/docs/doc-org.freedesktop.portal.Wallpaper.html
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*** Bug 498855 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/merge_requests/427
Started implementing it Out of interest are you working on a app that wants to do this? What's the use case?
This sort of thing: https://flathub.org/apps/app.drey.Damask https://flathub.org/apps/com.github.calo001.fondo https://flathub.org/apps/in.bharatkalluri.splash It's a replacement for wallpaper plugins; having an app to do it.
I am maintaining https://github.com/oskarsh/Yin-Yang. One of the features is to change the wallpaper with the day/night cycle. Having a desktop-independent way of doing that would make things a lot easier.
Git commit 1629d7a6b1f91b37ed987fea4a85fbecb5943f7b by David Redondo. Committed on 01/09/2025 at 14:13. Pushed by davidre into branch 'master'. Implement wallpaper portal Needs a Dialog but funtionality works M +1 -1 data/kde.portal M +9 -0 src/CMakeLists.txt A +55 -0 src/WallpaperDialog.qml [License: LGPL(3+eV) LGPL(v3.0) LGPL(v2.1)] M +2 -0 src/desktopportal.cpp A +105 -0 src/wallpaper.cpp [License: LGPL(3+eV) LGPL(v3.0) LGPL(v2.1)] A +41 -0 src/wallpaper.h [License: LGPL(3+eV) LGPL(v3.0) LGPL(v2.1)] https://invent.kde.org/plasma/xdg-desktop-portal-kde/-/commit/1629d7a6b1f91b37ed987fea4a85fbecb5943f7b