Hello,

I am new to KDE and new to Linux as well. I "thought" I was an advanced windows user, but coming over to linux, I feel like a newb again.

I was looking for a way to add the "set image as desktop wallper" in the context menu...I mean service menu. The old windows habits are hard to die.

Anyway, I found this tutorial http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials/Creating_Konqueror_Service_Menus and was able to create the menu, only to find out I didn't read the very top note which says some of the code only applies to KDE 3. I am running KDE 4.10. So it obviously does not work.

I did seach it out and read that KDE switched over to dbus instead of dcop, which I am not familiar with either. Is there anyway somebody could direct me to where I can find the code needed to get this service menu to work with KDE 4 or if somebody knows the code, maybe you can post it so I can add it to this tuturial to make it work. I would appreciate it.

Thanks for your time

Running KDE 4.10 on Linux Mint 14

as best as I can determine it's not as trivial as in KDE 3.5

see viewtopic.php?f=66&t=109391&p=256178&hilit=set+background+dbus#p256178

Just use drag and drop of the image on the desktop.

I appreciate the help.

I know you can drag and drop on to the desktop but I was just looking for the service menu. I am not a coder so that post is way over my head.

Well the documentation from techbase would work if there would be a DBUS interface to set the wallpaper. As far as I can tell from searching the web there is no DBUS interface to set the wallpaper yet. I found a proposed patch but it has some issues which need to be fixed. So for now setting the wallpaper via service menu is not possible using that method. Sorry.

Thank you for the response.

Hopefully they can fix it in the future


Thanks Again