Hi,

I was wondering if there are any plans to add ability to control gwenview using D-BUS?
I was trying to find an image viever for Linux (ideally KDE of course) which I could easily control using CLI or D-BUS but there seems to be nothing there (there is actually display command but it is not really what I need)

I do not own a TV so I use my KDE desktop to play videos and music. To make it more convenient I created some hacky scripts which allow me to control music (amarok) and video (mplayer) remotely from a mobile phone or a tablet. It works great, especially with amarok which is very easy to control using D-BUS.
I was thinking about adding another functionality to my little hack which is ability to control image viewer to be able to show pictures to my friends while sitting comfortably on the sofa but I had no luck with that. Of course gwenview D-BUS interfaces would make is very easy to control image viewing from python scripts on CLI.

Regards,
Jacek

I will answer my own question. Gwenview has D-BUS support, it is just slightly different than what I saw in amarok. I can trigger QT actions using D-BUS. Small code snippet below.

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import dbus

session_bus = dbus.SessionBus()
gwenview_bus = ""
for method in session_bus.list_names():
    if method.find("gwenview") != -1:
        gwenview_bus = method
        break

a = session_bus.get_object(gwenview_bus, "/gwenview/MainWindow_1/actions/go_next")
a.trigger()


Nice, thanks for sharing. Note that what you describe here should be usable to control any KDE application.