Sebastian Krzyszkowiak @dos@librem.one

Set any application as Plasma background

Missing your favorite xscreensaver hack? Have an old Windows screensaver that works under Wine? Want to have htop as your wallpaper? Or maybe you'd like to write your own screensaver in Godot? This addon lets you use any application as a Plasma wallpaper or screensaver.

https://invent.kde.org/dos/plasma-wallpaper-application

https://store.kde.org/p/2318884/

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In the end I found a way to make it 100% QML, so you can now just download it from Discover or KNewStuff and enjoy on your desktop 🙂

https://invent.kde.org/dos/plasma-wallpaper-application

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And here it is! Welcome back as my screensaver, Asciiquarium 😊

I could have reimplemented it in Qt, as it was done back in the KDE 3/4 days... or I could just run the original thing in a Konsole window and call it a day 😁

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How it works? It's a Plasma wallpaper plugin which is an extremely simple QtWayland compositor that only handles a single fullscreen window and draws it - so any Wayland window can be drawn as a background. This window can of course also belong to Xwayland 😄

This means we can go beyond xscreensaver. How about... Wine? 😁

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I had a random thought - "what would it take to support arbitrary old screensavers in Plasma 6 again?" 🤔 So here's xscreensaver safely rendered as a background for Plasma screen locker, working on both Wayland and X11 sessions. Turned out so much simpler than I expected 😁 Just some 70 lines of pure QML and a tiny glue to launch the process.

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taking daily pills be like:

(drawing from @holypangolin's game Karambola)

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Last one for today 😴

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FWIW, don't mind the stripes on the bottom or right edge on some of these photos. It was just me poorly rotating and noticing too late 😛

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And the great thing is that you can take your past photos and re-develop them again with whatever code you have available now. No need to be picky, it's fast enough to just go through them all.

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There are still some crucial things missing, such as profiled denoising or proper highlight recovery, but since the performance budget for a still photo is much higher than for a 30 FPS video, there's plenty of room to add more stuff - and most of these 2 seconds are spent reading DNG and saving JPG anyway.

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Unlike Glowup, which takes about 30 seconds and lots of RAM to process, this is still just as fast - the photo is developed within 2 seconds from shooting.

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