Re: How Can I change wallpaper from CLI?

2012-09-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2012-09-06, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > in the same way that every application that opens files stored on disk > needs to support file open/read/write. in reality, very few of our > applications make direct libc calls to achieve this and instead rely on > (much) higher level libraries to

Re: How Can I change wallpaper from CLI?

2012-09-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, September 6, 2012 14:22:28 Kevin Krammer wrote: > Without checking the implementation details I would have guessed that > "allowing content to be introspected" needs support for that introspection > in every single application in the same way that every application that opens files s

Re: How Can I change wallpaper from CLI?

2012-09-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Thursday, 2012-09-06, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday, September 6, 2012 12:47:16 Kevin Krammer wrote: > > The problem with that (as far as I can tell) is that this would not be > > available to non-KDE apps, which (again as far as I understand) is the > > case of the thread starter. > > if

Re: How Can I change wallpaper from CLI?

2012-09-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, September 6, 2012 12:47:16 Kevin Krammer wrote: > The problem with that (as far as I can tell) is that this would not be > available to non-KDE apps, which (again as far as I understand) is the case > of the thread starter. if the issue was non-KDE apps, this would be an interesting s

Re: How Can I change wallpaper from CLI?

2012-09-06 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Wednesday, 2012-09-05, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > what that would do in this case is instead of implementing (non-standard) > means to set desktop wallpapers in N applications, N applications simply > start advertising what content the user is focused on so that other parts > of the system can rea

Re: How Can I change wallpaper from CLI?

2012-09-06 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, September 5, 2012 17:50:28 Michael Pyne wrote: > Does this actually change the wallpaper for the default containment though, > or is more work still needed on that end? we have code that changes the wallpaper given an arbitrary image URL. it needs to be put into (or accessed from) a