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