Service Menus with Dolphin

[Rog131]

Two click wallpaper change
This was working with the Kubuntu 9.04 / KDE 4.2.4, Kubuntu 9.10 (a6) / KDE 4.3.1

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> change wallpaper & weather wallpaper

by JaKi » Thu Aug 27, 2009 3:53 pm

By now I change my wallpaper through a servicemenu. I have set the wallpaper in that dialog to use ~/background.jpg. And via the picture's servicemenu I copy another file to background.jpg. That works fine except for one exception: the new wallaper only appears after either a relogin or in current session when I open the wallpaper dialog and confirm it without changing anything. So I'd love to call that dialog from the servicemenu.


by JaKi » Sat Sep 05, 2009 9:33 pm

I installed the "next wallpaper" widget and it works fine even when the desktop is not in slideshow mode! I now set the wallpaper via my servicemenu (copy the chosen picture to background.jpg) and just have to click on the next wallpaper widget in the panel to let the new wallpaper smoothly blend in (I now use a subdirectory in which background.jpg is the only picture). Nice!

Making a .desktop file to the ~/.kde/share/kde4/services/ServiceMenus:

wallpaper.desktop

Code:

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Service
ServiceTypes=KonqPopupMenu/Plugin
MimeType=image/*;
Actions=;SetWallpaper;
X-KDE-Priority=TopLevel
X-KDE-Submenu=Image

[Desktop Action SetWallpaper]
Name=Set Wallpaper
Icon=folder-image
Exec=convert "%f" ~/Wallpaper/MyWallpaper.jpg

Update:
I'm using the ImageMagic to scale&crop the image:

Code:

Exec=convert "%f" -resize 1680x1050^ -gravity center -extent 1680x1050 ~/Wallpaper/MyWallpaper.png

Making a directory: Wallpaper in the home directory (/home/rog/Wallpaper).

Click #1
With the Dolphin > Right clicking the imagefile > Set Wallpaper



Click #2
Clicking the plasma-widget-nextwallpaper to show the new wallpaper.

The wallpaper is changing.


The "convert is part of the imagemagick. Package: imagemagick.

man convert:

NAME

convert - convert between image formats as well as resize an image, blur, crop, despeckle, dither,
draw on, flip, join, re-sample, and much more.

SYNOPSIS
       convert input-file [options] output-file

The plasma-widget-nextwallpaper is > KDE-Look / Next wallpaper:

Simple applet that changes the current wallpaper (when in slideshow mode) on command

It is in the repositories.

[ScottZ]

I am trying to figure out how to make  a service menu that will copy files from one split to the other.
Any ideas?

[Snowhog]

Click, drag, and drop isn't sufficient

[Rog131]

I am trying to figure out how to make  a service menu that will copy files from one split to the other.
Any ideas?

Yes  , you need to get the other "panel" path but there is the problem  .

I looked the qdbus /1/ calls but i didn't find useful for the Dolphin splitted view.


The Dolphin is a good (light one panel) file manager (> Dolphin philosophy). There is the "copy/move to" (Settings > Configure Dolphin > General > Context Menu > Show "copy To" and "Move To" commands)

I would use the Krusader /2/  or other twin panel file managers if there is need to move lot of files between panels.


/1/  (Q)D-Bus
> D-Bus wiki
> D-Bus Specification

/2/ Package: Krusader (http://www.krusader.org/)

twin-panel (commander-style) file manager

Krusader is a simple, easy, powerful, twin-panel (commander-style) file
manager, similar to Midnight Commander (C) or Total Commander (C).

It provides all the file management features you could possibly want.

Plus: extensive archive handling, mounted filesystem support, FTP,
advanced search module, viewer/editor, directory synchronisation,
file content comparisons, powerful batch renaming and much more.

It supports archive formats: ace, arj, bzip2, deb, iso, lha, rar, rpm, tar,
zip and 7-zip.

It handles KIOSlaves such as smb:// or fish://.

Almost completely customizable, Krusader is very user friendly, fast and looks
great on your desktop.

[ScottZ]

Click, drag, and drop isn't sufficient

That's what I am doing now.
But if I could create a service menu to copy from one panel to the other, I could do it without using the mouse, which would be easier.

[Rog131]

Package naming

Service menu packages are now (Lucid) : kde-service-menu-<application>


> Bug #66508: ISO mount from context menu
>> ISO mounting by default
>>> [ubuntu/lucid] kde-service-menu-fuseiso 0.1-0ubuntu1 (Accepted)