Plasma Wallpapers in QML

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Marco Martin <notmart at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>> There's some wallpaper that has mouse events already, I think it's
>> mandelbrot or marble.. I can see if I can forward those events to the
>> scene... OTOH, it might be a bit messy to have the background moving
>> when you hover it.
>
> is not super pretty but yes, a wallpaper plugin receives mouse events,
> so you can from there manually send them over the scene where you
> render the wallpaper image with qml, and it should just work.
>
> in plasma2 it would just be items positioned under the items in the
> containment, so if nobody in the containment eats them, they will end
> up to the wallpaper items.
>
>>>
>>> ... and this leads me to think about what to do with Wallpaper in libplasma2
>>> :)
>>>
>>> as for where to put this plugin, for now it should go into kdeplasma-addons
>>> with the other wallpaper plugins.
>> Yes, well I said kde-worspace because marco suggested it. I'm not
>> going to fight over it, so wherever you tell me ;).
>
> yeah, i didn't think about the extra ones in addons, this can go there for now.
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Ok, it's in kdeplasma-addons now! :)

I'll blog about it later today or so.

Cheers!
Aleix