Change Wallpaper through a Service?

[Shantanu Tushar Jha]

Hi,

On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Jeremiah Summers <jmiahman at gmail.com>wrote:

> Shantanu,
>              Actually that's what I had her do, but she had saved the
> image to her desktop so it was copy it into a folder in home then have
> her drag it back "like" she was going to move it back to the desktop
>
then select "Set as Wallpaper", When a right mouse click, hover and
> left mouse click would have been _a lot_ more simple. For that matter
>

Yep, without doubt that is simpler for the user. Wonder if we can add a DBus
call to Plasma for setting current wallpaper, I'd like to know what other
plasma devs think of this.

more simple to explain as well. In actualyity she just wanted to see
> how it was going to look, since she has changed her wallpaper multiple
> times. I'm really hoping there's some way to do this, it just seems so
> simple and it was doable in the past with dcop. Searching multiple
> forums I see it's popular request, so if it is semi simple it needs to
> be documented some place. I will have no issue doing it, if I can
> figure it out. Thanks for you response
>
> Jeremiah
>
> On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:18 PM, Shantanu Tushar Jha
> <jhahoneyk at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi Jeremiah,
> >
> > What I usually do for setting an image as wallpaper is dragging the image
> > from Dolphin and dropping on the desktop, and then select "Wallpaper" (If
> > your dolphin is maximised, you can hover over the Show Desktop icon).
> >
> > As far as I remember, Plasma doesn't expose a DBus call for setting a
> > wallpaper.
> >
> > Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
> > http://www.shantanutushar.com
> >
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 11:40 AM, Jeremiah Summers <jmiahman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> The other day my wife asked me (not a heavy Linux/KDE User) why when
> >> she right clicked on an image did she not have an option in "Actions"
> >> to set it as her wallpaper. I thought that was a good question.
> >> Remember the KDE 3 days I thought it should be pretty simple (now
> >> especially with dbus instead of dcop) create a simple desktop file and
> >> add it too services. Looking for the method in qbusviewer came up with
> >> no real results so to furth my knowledge I went to google. Only to
> >> find dishearted posters saying something so simple (and once easy)
> >> could no longer be done. I was wonder if that is true, or maybe if it
> >> might be a bit more complex (Javascript) but still doable? If so how
> >> might I go about it?
> >>
> >> Kind Regards
> >>
> >> Jeremiah
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Shantanu Tushar    (UTC +0530)
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