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

#plasma #kde #wayland #qtwayland #qml #qtquick #gnu #linux #screensaver #xscreensaver

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 😁

#plasma #kde #wayland #qtwayland #qml #qtquick #gnu #linux #screensaver #asciiquarium

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? 😁

#plasma #kde #xscreensaver #wayland #x11 #qtwayland #qml #qtquick #gnu #linux #wine

Not the first time a #Qt6 update broke something, because taps in the #QtWayland compositor surfaces under #HiDPI worked at some point, then an update broke it so they're in the wrong spot and I have no idea if it's something I was doing wrong or if it's a regression that's still there almost a year later.

2/3 oops

#programming #bug #regression #QtQuick #Qt6