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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: change wallpaper via dbus ?
From:       Martin Koller <kollix () aon ! at>
Date:       2011-03-22 21:24:28
Message-ID: 201103222224.32727.kollix () aon ! at
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On Tuesday, 22. March 2011 16:32:46 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 22, 2011, Martin Koller wrote:
> > is it possible to change the wallpaper via some dbus call as was possible
> > in the KDE3 days via dcop ?
> 
> there isn't a dbus call for this, no. a generic "set image at $PATH as 
> wallpaper" bit of code was recently added to the image frame plasmoid that 
> works as one would hope/expect (e.g. not change the wallpaper plugin if the 
> current wallpaper plugin supports images; not rely on a specific plugin being 
> installed; etc.), and that could possibly make its way into plasma-desktop and 
> connected to a dbus call.
> 
> (drag and drop of images is also supported)
> 
> what's the use case?

kolourpaint has a menu entry to set the current image as wallpaper, and as I'm maintaining
it now, I wanted to know if that action can be made to work again.
But probably this action has no longer a useful value with plasma, so I think
I simply get rid of it.

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