Plasma Containment default setting

[Kevin Krammer]

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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