Plasma Wallpapers in QML

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 29, 2012 at 5:25 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 29 September 2012, Marco Martin wrote:
>>> i tried to do a wallpaper (called haenau) in the style of the "typical"
>>> default kde wallpaper that  is just some simple svg shapes that are every
>>> 30 seconds gien a random opacity and z order, animation is very subtle (as
>>> it should always be) and the changes of the wallpaper are barely
>>> noticeable http://wstaw.org/m/2012/09/29/plasmoidviewerP13038.png
>>>
>>> even tough the qml file stays inactive for most of the time and in
>>> qmlviewer usually takes 0% cpu when loaded in plasma always takes some
>>> cpu, so is probably doing still some unnecessary repaints
>>
>> solved the cpu issue (it needs a cached pixmap, otherwise calls scene::render
>> too often) and added anohter one (ok, i'll stop :p)
>>
>> one thing that should still be done (and don't want to do it, at least one
>> thing;) is to show wallpaper thumbnails: and they should just be a thumbnail
>> contained in the package (no, live previews are too costly in terms of pretty
>> much everything)
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marco Martin
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>
> I'll look into this during next (or this, already >.<) week.
>
> Looked into Haenau, looking promising!
>
> Thanks for caring, Marco! :)
> Aleix

I pushed a new dialog with the previews. It still doesn't get much CPU
here (or maybe I just have a good computer >.<), so any testing and
comments are welcome.

Aleix