Plasma Wallpapers in QML

[Aleix Pol]

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