On Thursday, 2012-06-21, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 23:54:57 Martin Klapetek wrote: > > I imagine this could then be used in Dolphin's context menu 'Actions' and > > possibly in Gwenview too. Should there be such dbus-interface, I would > > add those patches to Dolphin and Gwenview. > > the things i look at and weigh are: > > * will the feature work consistently (multiple screens, per-virtual desktop > containments, etc..) and not just work for some configurations > > * what is the cost to the codebase (how complex will the patches to plasma- > desktop be .. and this does require patches there) > > * is this valuable enough to add another item to the context menu? context > menus ought to be fairly focused otherwise they become a clutter of options > that become more difficult to sort through. we support setting the > wallpaper through drag and drop, so this is a consideration here. > > given the above, i'd much rather see the DnD support that already exists > and works used with dolphin and gwenview.
Just an observation: people on user mailing list now and then ask for a D-Bus interface to change wallpaper for the purpose of shell scripting. E.g. usually a question along "I am looking for an equivalent of the following kdesktop DCOP call....:" Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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