frumble, 2 months ago

Why was the #Unsplash #Plasma plugin removed in Plasma 6 when it still perfectly works day to day with new pictures on my Plasma 5 machine?! #KDE

beta, 2 months ago

@frumble Late to the party, and I don't have KDE setup right now (had to use Windows for school and have GNOME because I wanted to give the latest version a try). Although, if you could find a way to set the wallpaper to an URL you could set it to something like https://source.unsplash.com/featured/2256x1504 or https://source.unsplash.com/random/2256x1504/?wallpaper and get a random featured photo or wallpaper from Unsplash.

frumble, 2 months ago

@beta Interesting approach and it even works for 4K resolution with modified URL… Will bookmark this for later. My question remains: Why removing the #KDE #Plasma plugin when the open API of #Unsplash still works? And there wasn’t an urge to remove it on Plasma 5, where it is still working up to this day.

j3j5, 2 months ago

@frumble @beta I think some stuff changed for wallpaper plugins on plasma 6 so probably the reason is just it hasn't been ported yet. I'm also missing the earth view plugin but didn't have time yet to look into how it could be ported.

frumble, 2 months ago

@j3j5 @beta This can’t be it. There are a couple more, the NASA, the Bing, the National Geographic Plugin etc.

j3j5, 2 months ago

@frumble @beta ok, you're right, apparently they've changed their ToS, search for Unsplash here https://pointieststick.com/2023/07/26/what-we-plan-to-remove-in-plasma-6/