Animated GIF wallpaper for KDE Plasma 5

Demo Video

• Put this in ~/.local/share/plasma/wallpapers/com.nerdyweekly.animated.
• Go to Desktop Settings, choose Wallpaper Type: Animated GIF, apply, profit.
• Optional: Go to Screen Locking and choose the same wallpaper type. Enable blur if you prefer that (I do).
• Optional: replace contents/ui/animation.gif with your animated gif of choice. You may need to tweak the image dimensions a bit in contents/ui/main.qml.

TODO (read: probably never)

• Configurable wallpaper with proper file picker and stuff
• Support resolutions other than 1920x1080.

Rice Rice Baby

If you're into this ricing stuff (which you probably shouldn't), here are the resources I used:

• Video wallpaper tutorial
• QML AnimatedImage documentation
• Plasma's own existing wallpaper types: probably in /usr/share/plasma/wallpapers/

A bird's eye view:

• metadata.desktop: self-explanatory
• contents/ui/main.qml: how to render the wallpaper
• contents/ui/config.qml: how to render the wallpaper config window
• You can preview your QML files quickly with qmlscene <file>.qml. Probably comes with QtCreator. Note: my config.qml uses formAlignment, which is available in the context that it's used in but will make qmlscene complain. That's normal.
• May need to logout then login again for the updated main.qml to take effect. Or try removing all *.qmlc files.

Credits

The beaufiful GIF included here was made by 1041uuu. Check them out!