wikiwallpaper

wikipedia wallaper

for kde plasma 5
displays random wikipedia articles/images on your desktop
lots of configuration options (slightly over-engineered)

sorta gave up on finishing this
there are some bugs with rendering of the articles sometimes, i also wanted do implement a way to limit the categories the articles are picked from (not sure if this is even possible with wikipedia api), or at least provide some sort of a filter

installation

kde plasma store

TODO

manual installation

clone this repo
enter kpackagetool5 -t Plasma/Wallpaper --install (path to the cloned repo). replace --install with --upgrade if you are upgrading
restart plasmashell either by logging out and in again or by entering plasmashell --replace & into your terminal
the wallpaper should be available in the desktop settings (desktop settings are accessible from the context menu of your desktop, i cannot find them in the system settings for some reason)

kpackagetool might not be available until you install the plasma sdk/developer tools. on ubuntu 18.10 you can install kpackagetool using apt-get install kpackagetool5

may require installing libqt5quickcontrols2-5 on debian/ubuntu

tested on:

ubuntu 20.10 / kde 5.19.5
ubuntu 19.04 / kde 5.15.4
ubuntu 18.10 / kde 5.13.5
manjaro 18.1.0 / kde 5.16.4
debian 10 / kde 5.14.5
debian 9 / kde 5.8.6 - DOES NOT WORK, requires QtQuick 2.0

todo

fix qml warnings about usage of anchors in layout
publish on plasma store
add progress spinner/connectivity error indicator to the config window (language list is pulled live from the internet every time)
optional animations (no idea where to start)
image resolution/image ratio filter
more font settings
title filter (although you shouldn't use this wallpaper at work anyway)
category filter
"next article" keyboard shortcut
different timer for error handling (would be useful to retry connecting to the internet every minute even if the wallpaper is set to 3 hours update interval)
investigate why extracts from some articles have no almost text (might be fixed now)

credits

thanks to aowznr for this epic idea