[Bug 162146] New: Need way to programmatically change desktop background

[Michael Pyne]

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           Summary: Need way to programmatically change desktop background
           Product: plasma
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: panel-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: mpyne purinchu net


Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc 4.2.3 (Gentoo 4.2.3 p1.0) w/ mudflag and gentoo patches
OS:                Linux

I'm almost tempted to mark this a bug :)

But I was investigating the reason that we can no longer right-click on images and set them as the desktop background.  I noticed it used to be in kdesktop and figured it wasn't carried over to KDE 4 when we switched to plasma.

I was just going to tweak the .desktop file to work but I wanted to make sure plasma had an equivalent D-BUS interface to set the desktop background... and I don't see any.

This also makes it hard for other applications (i.e. KolourPaint) to change the background.

It is possible to simply kwriteconfig the appropriate entry but then how do we get plasma to show the new background?

Expected behavior: A D-BUS interface is present and working for other applications to use.