Photo album, wallpaper, API questions

[Johannes Zarl-Zierl]

Am Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2026, 11:16:31 Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit schrieb 
Jonathan Schultz:
> Having used KPhotoalbum (and previously KimDaBa) for decades now, I'm
> very impressed by many of its functions, and especially by the fact that
> although I have paid zero attention to maintenance, it continues to
> track my photos with no loss of data.

Thanks for the praise!

> What I would love to do with it now is use it to feed images to a
> digital photo frame, a wallpaper plugin for KDE/Plasma, and whatever
> else could use a feed of images. I guess what I need is an API to access
> the image database and the images themselves. I can't see any obvious
> reference to such a thing so asking now on this channel.
> 
> Any help or pointers much appreciated.

As others have already pointed out, you can read index.xml directly.

Another way might be to create a purpose[1,2] plugin. That way, your code is 
accessible in kphotoalbum via the "Modules -> Share..." menu. You can then 
also share from gwenview if you want.

Can you share more information about the intended workflow? Do you want to 
actively push/share images to your photo frame, or do you want to 
automatically fetch all images with certain tags?

Cheers,
  Johannes


[1] https://api.kde.org/purpose-index.html
[2] https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/purpose