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Animated Image wallpaper for Plasma Desktop

Animated Image wallpaper for KDE Plasma Desktop

Installtion

git clone [email protected]:dark-eye/com.darkeye.animatedImage.git
plasmapkg2 --install com.darkeye.animatedImage

Development

Just fork or clone the project :

git clone [email protected]:dark-eye/com.darkeye.animatedImage.git

Then you can apply/install you're changes by running :

plasmapkg2 --install com.darkeye.animatedImage

And remove the installed wallpaper with

plasmapkg2 --remove com.darkeye.animatedImage

General structure and notes:

  • metadata.desktop: maetadata used to identify and escribe the wallpaper to plasma desktop
  • contents/ui/main.qml: Main renderer of the wallpaper
  • contents/ui/config.qml: The configuration form for the wallpaper
  • contents/ui/BackgroundComponent.qml: The actual logic to display the wallpaper
  • You can preview your QML files quickly with qmlscene <file>.qml.
  • May need to logout then login again for the updated main.qml to take effect. Or try removing all *.qmlc files.

Resources

  • Some good animations can be found at Floris Kloet (Checkout his archive)

TODOs

  • Customized tint gradinet

Credits

This code was based on :

  • Inspired mainly by com.nerdyweekly.animated wallpaper that can be found here
  • And some of com.github.zren.inactiveblur the can be found here was use for the image selection and kde integrestion

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