OpenWallpaper Plasma is a plugin for KDE Plasma providing additional possibilities for desktop wallpaper.

Video: https://youtu.be/W6t2PojD7X4

Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenWallpaper/

GitGub page with all information: https://github.com/Samsuper12/OpenWallpaper-Plasma

Available options:

* Play QtOpenGL scene with mouse events and music
* Play GIFs with music
* Play Video

The main feature of each package is that each wallpaper contains information about the package itself, about the author and a brief description. Each package will work on different computers with the same plugin version. At the moment, the KDE Plasma support is implemented only, other DEs and operating systems will become available in future updates.

Examples:
There are several demonstration packages available now. You can create your own and publish it on reddit community page.

Blink - QtOpenGL wallpaper - https://github.com/Samsuper12/Blink
Winter - GIF with the music - https://github.com/Samsuper12/Winter
Sunset - Video - https://github.com/Samsuper12/Sunset

Build instructions:

The following packages must be installed from the official repositories for all distributives:

GCC
CMake 3.10
Gstreamer
Extra-cmake-modules

The following are the most popular distributives and the name of the packages that you need to install. If you are a user of a little-known distributive, that is not listed below, we recommend you to find and install analogs of these packages.

ATTENTION: Your system should be updated to the last release.

First you need download develop dependencies:

Ubuntu:

# sudo apt install build-essential libkf5plasma-dev qtdeclarative5-dev

Fedora:

# sudo dnf install kf5-plasma-devel qt5-qtdeclarative-devel

Arch:

# sudo pacman -S kdeclarative

Build and installing

Now when all the necessary packages are installed, you can proceed with the compilation and installation.

Unpack the downloaded archive. Go to the Open Wallpaper Plasma project directory and run the terminal. Now you should create a folder and enter it.

# mkdir build && cd build

Run CMake with the following parameters:

# cmake -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr ..

CMake can show an error if the system doesn’t have the necessary dependencies.

Start building the project:

# cmake --build .

if you have more than 2 CPU cores or threads you can write -- -jХ where X will be a number of cores/threads. Example: cmake --build. -- -j4

Read CMake output and if the compilation was successful, you can install a plugin in the system directory with the following command:

# sudo make install

Success! Now you can run a plugin in Plasma Desktop Settings. Attention: the plugin doesn’t have any packages included. See Examples above