https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524472
Bug ID: 524472
Summary: Restrengthen Plasma's support for tiled wallpapers
Classification: Plasma
Product: plasmashell
Version First master
Reported In:
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: Wallpaper images
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: 1.0
For version 6.6, Plasma’s wallpaper tiling feature was moved to an add-on for
being hard to implement without saving memory
(https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/commit/e9e16b699f6ce8c305aab4edc161f976ce3db4e2).
This move, however, has weakened Plasma’s support for tiled wallpapers.
Notably:
1. “Tiled” options no longer appear in “Positioning”. Moreover, the wallpaper
settings don’t point out the loss of these options or how to restore them.
2. The wallpaper tiling addon no longer supports animated images such as those
in the GIF and APNG format.
3. Right-clicking an image in Dolphin, then selecting Set as Wallpaper >
Desktop, no longer tiles the image as the wallpaper, even if a “Tiled”
positioning option was previously set in Plasma or “Tiled” is currently set as
the wallpaper type.
4. The "Tile" button's "thumbnail" always shows the wallpaper image in its
original size, even if the image is much larger than the button can show.
Moreover, the button's "thumbnail" doesn't update when a new wallpaper is
selected.
Thus I make these suggestions
(https://discuss.kde.org/t/plasmas-support-for-tiled-wallpapers/45059):
- In the wallpaper settings, mention somehow that the wallpaper tiling feature
can be restored by installing the kdeplasma-addons package, then selecting
“Tiled” as the wallpaper type. (And in this sense, the tiling plugin doesn’t
yet support horizontal tiling or vertical tiling). Or at least do this for
users who previously used the “Tiled” positioning option.
- Dolphin should be modified to detect the “Tiled” wallpaper plugin so that it
can again tile images that it sets as wallpaper.
- Optionally, support a feature to generate a pre-tiled wallpaper from the
wallpaper settings. (This can also be done with SVG.)
- The problems in item 4 with the "Tile" button should be corrected. Moreover,
the path or file name of the selected tiled wallpaper should be shown without
having to select the "Tile" button. Alternatively, instead of the "Tile"
button, show a list of wallpapers similar to the "Image" list for the "Image"
wallpaper mode.
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