Website Wallpaper?

[Alan James]

I would like to have a website display as the desktop background on KDE but so far I have been unable to find a plasmoid or configuration option to do this. I use Google Calenders and would like to see my calender all the time without the need to bring up a web browser. I am using KDE 4.3 and will be upgrading to KDE 4.4. when it is released. Is there any way of doing this?


Thanks for the help.

[Alan James]

To further clarify, this is similar to Active Desktop on Windows XP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Desktop

[Alan James]

Does anyone have any advice at all. Even if you tell me it is possible that would be great.

[GeneralZod]

Does it 100% have to be a wallpaper, or would a large Plasmoid embedded into the desktop do? If the latter, there is a webbrowser Plasmoid available which might fit the bill.

[Alan James]

Thanks for the replay. I am primarily trying to display my Google calender and the webbrowser plasmoid wont allow me to login for some reason.


I am curious about how hard it is to write this feature. KDE already allows one to use Marble as a wallpaper and have an interactive globe on their desktop. I wonder if it is possible to do the same thing, but use Konqueror instead. I will look more into doing it myself taking the source code of the webbrowser plasmoid combining it with the desktop.



Again thank you for the reply.

[GeneralZod]

Have you seen this, BTW?

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=104182

Re: writing it yourself - it shouldn't be too hard, I don't think - look into

http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdelibs/kdewebkit/

which should integrate with KDE's cookie jar and wallet (it might be more suitable than stock QtWebkit).

Good luck! :)

[Alan James]

Thanks for the help. I will look into the links provided.