371512 - 'Set as desktop background' not working in KDE

Status: NEW

Description

[Juho]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070220 Firefox/2.0.0.2

Setting pictures as wallpaper from Firefox doesn't work.
Its very annoying to set all walpapers manually from Desktop Settings.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to site which has images
2. Click some picture with mouse2 and click 'Set As Desktop Background...'
3. Select how you want your new wallpaper scaled
Actual Results:  
Nothing happens

Expected Results:  
It should set that picture as Desktop Wallpaper

Comment 1

[Adam Guthrie]

We only implement this feature for GNOME.

Comment 2

[Juho]

(In reply to comment #1)
> We only implement this feature for GNOME.
> 

Why only for GNOME ? 

Some people prefer KDE much better Desktop Environment. Normally I use KDE and if not I'm using XFCE.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Because no one has made a real effort to create a KDE version, or hooks for KDE users.  There's any number of reasons, not the least of which is Konqueror is what KDE developers tend to work on.

Comment 4

[massey]

Created attachment 257866 [details] [diff] [review]
KDEBackground.diff

Patch adds KDE background image and color handling. Patch is against MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH

Comment 5

[Angel Blue]

I can confirm this is as still present in KDE 4.2.1 and Firefox 3.06

Comment 6

[John Vivirito]

I'm thinking this is related to firefox-*-kde-support. QT support as a more general view.
There is or at least was an open bug report here about QT support, just not sure where it went

Comment 7

[John Vivirito]

Ubuntu bug is at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/90851

Comment 8

[Wolfgang Rosenauer [:wolfiR]]

That's basically a feature request instead of a bug.
Current KDE4 doesn't provide a useful way to control it easily from Firefox. The approach in the proposed patch is quite fragile I _think_.

Comment 9

[Olivier Delaune]

This bug is still valid 3 years later with KDE 4.8.5 and firefox 10.0.6 (and I guess with the latest firefox version)