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Idea #25609: Features lacking in current Dolphin/Nautilus

Written by NinjaNumberNine the 15 Aug 10 at 15:12. Related project: Dolphin. Status: New
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Note: Perhaps this has been added in nautilus, I am using KDE at present, and its version of nautilus may be old (2.30.1).

Suffice it to say, this is an elusive (at best) feature that i really miss from Windows. It had an option when you right-clicked an image file, to 'Set as Background' or similar. In Dolphin and Nautilus, there are no options for 'setting as desktop background'. I know that there is a plugin for nautilus to allow this, but the end user wouldn't know of it. And in KDE, you just about have to use the 'Desktop Activity Settings' module to change your wallpaper. Even Gwenview lacks this option... while M$ Picture and Fax Viewer has it. The current 'desktop settings' apps in gnome and kde have only the option to import images one by one. It would be useful to allow importing an entire folder, that the program would find all the image files from, and show them in the list.

Sorry to rant, I love all the *buntus, it's just a small issue anyhow.

-NinjaNumberNine

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Solution #1: Add a simple entry to the right-click menu for images
Written by NinjaNumberNine the 15 Aug 10 at 15:12.
Perhaps, for Ubuntu, just make the 'nautilus-wallpaper' package installed by default by the LiveCD/system update.
Or for Kubuntu, add to dolphin 'Right click Image file -> Set as Wallpaper' as there doesn't seem to be a plugin package available.
(NOTE: it appears that in KDE 4.4 they have added a function to enable dropping an image file on the Plasma desktop, and setting it as wallpaper. However, this is still lacking, for instance in cases where the desktop is completely submerged in windows, and there is no space to drop the image.)

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