So, didn't know where to put this one. This is kind of a funny story.

So, I found this nice image that I wanted to make my wallpaper. And I was a little confused when I couldn't just right-click to make it wallpaper in Firefox or Ocular. So, I looked up how to make it wallpaper, because every great desktop comes with a voluminous manual, like a virtual wall of VMS documentation. Configurability has its price. So, I saw this one suggestion that I shouldn't be able to just make an image into a background directly, because that would be like Microsoft and Apple and Android, and we hate those guys. They are the desktops of the past. I needed to use the slideshow option for background and just tell it where to find the images.

So, I go to slideshow under background settings, select my personal top-level directory where the picture is located, and KDE proceeds to read every file in my entire directory structure, locking up the gnikcuf desktop so I have to do a hard reboot because it won't gnikcuf let go. This was exactly what I wanted to happen. Because it taught me a valuable lesson that I should always be submissive before my desktop system. And that if I have to reboot my Linux machine far more often than my iphone, that that's a good thing.

Anyway, the real answer is to copy the file to "/usr/share/wallpapers/<filename> as root "| (well, duh (like who didn't know that (I surely did [[ssabmud]]) (like that was what I eat for breakfast every morning (It's soooooo a feature (Bet those desktops of the past don't have this feature ))))))). Anyway, I ran the slideshow game on my root directory a few more times because I like that out of control feeling.

Normally, I would report this feature on the feature-reporting system (bugs.kde.org), but I've noticed many feature moderators don't seem to have all the features installed that my system has, so they think this feature doesn't exist. I just wanted to let it be known that is might be a double feature, double because of its specialness. It's hard to see how so many very basic features keep giving us the intensely emotional features of KDE that so many mindless operating systems systems don't have. Why isn't KDE winning the desktop war? Keep up the good fight guys.

Why exactly did you not use this dialog http://i.imgur.com/ycxbvZW.png, which is accessible via right click -> configure desktop?

Greetings,
Sven