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bojidar-bg / plasma-parallax-wallpaper

A Plasma 5 plugin which moves a background image based on the current desktop
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KDE Plasma 6 Update #6

Closed jb2170 closed 6 months ago

jb2170 commented 6 months ago

Hi, I've been using this wallpaper plugin for a while now on Arch Linux, it worked beautifully! But now KDE 6 is out and the plugin no longer shows as available on the store / is no longer selectable in KDE settings. (I logged in to a black background after updating 😅) Does the plugin need updating or is it something on my end? Thanks

bojidar-bg commented 6 months ago

Hm.. odd, it works fine for me, also on Arch Linux, it's just not in the store :joy:

Made a new store listing as a Plasma 6 extension at https://store.kde.org/p/2135733/, can you confirm it works for you? (:

jb2170 commented 6 months ago

Thanks for the reply!

It seems there's some deprecations from Plasma 5 -> 6.

The plugin now shows on the store, but doesn't work fully. When installed from the store it goes into ~/.local/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/$RANDOM_STRING instead of ~/.local/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/com.github.bojidar-bg.parallax and does not show up in Settings/Wallpaper I had a compare with the other two wallpapers on the store for Plasma 6, and they're a bit buggy too

I've made some commits on a forked branch, with links to the KDE documentation on a couple of Plasma 6 deprecations in the commit messages; .desktop for the metadata file is now obsolete and a few tweaks have to be made to metadata.json. With these tweaks the plugin shows in Settings/Wallpaper, and I would guess it installs to the correct folder?

Next, the wallpaper image selector does not show in the settings menu image

Checking the journal with journalctl --user -f -n 0 --output cat I see

QQmlComponent: Component is not ready
qrc:/kcm/kcm_wallpaper/main.qml:111:9: QML StackView: replace: file:///home/jb2170/.local/usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/com.github.bojidar-bg.parallax/contents/ui/config.qml:22 module "QtQuick.Controls" version 1.0 is not installed

I've never done Qt / QML before so this is where I'm stuck :sweat_smile: . Perhaps there's some changes in libraries like Qt Quick Controls? If I naively change some version numbers from 1.x to 6.0 the error messages progress from version errors to semantic errors, but they're about QML libraries which I'm not familiar with.

bojidar-bg commented 6 months ago

Hm... I actually based much of the config QML files off of https://github.com/Zren/plasma-wallpapers/blob/master/animatedhue/package/contents/ui/config.qml – which has already caused some troubles in the past :sweat_smile:

Perhaps it would be smarter to base the config off of https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/wallpapers/image/imagepackage/contents/ui/config.qml instead; in fact, I would much enjoy being able to directly include that file and stretch the default imagepackge's main.qml :thinking:

I'll try to get my local Arch installation fully updated and see if the settings break for me too (:

bojidar-bg commented 6 months ago

Mmm... yep, you are right, it's all broken under Plasma 6 :sweat_smile: I'll branch off your fork, fix whatever stuff is going on in the QML, and push to master, if that's alright with you? (:

bojidar-bg commented 6 months ago

..Nevermind the question, I went ahead and did just that. Enjoy the update, and thanks for the initial push! :blush:

Closing as it *should* be all fixed now.

jb2170 commented 6 months ago

That fixed it! Installs + works perfectly. Thank you very much for the quick replies + fix :smile: