on my Laptop=Dell latitude E6510, RAM=8Gb, GPU=GT218 NVS 3100M, CPU=i7 Q 720 @ 1.60GHz running opensuse leap 42.3, plasma 5.10.95, KDE frameworks 5.38.0, KDE applications 17.08.1, Kernel 4.4.87-25-default, nvidia drivers, libreoffice 5.3.5.2
I would like to change my spash screen with a new one not in the list (none, breeze, oxygen, openSUSE) in systemsettings>workspace theme>splash screen.
how can I modify or download one and where I have to save it???
I tried to create /home/user/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel folder and inside reproduce what I would change (taking into account the same philosophy as for desktoptheme, copyed from /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme in /home/user/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme that worked) but it didn’t worked.
The splash screen is provided by the look&feel, as you seem to have found out yourself anyway.
There should be a “Get new…” button in the look&feel settings.
I tried to create /home/user/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel folder and inside reproduce what I would change (taking into account the same philosophy as for desktoptheme, copyed from /usr/share/plasma/desktoptheme in /home/user/.local/share/plasma/desktoptheme that worked) but it didn’t worked.
It needs to be in the right subfolders, depending on the name of the configured look&feel.
E.g. if you use the “openSUSE” look&feel, the splash files should be in /home/user/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.openSUSE.desktop/contents/splash/. I would recommend to copy the whole /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.openSUSE.desktop/ folder (or whichever you want to base on) to /home/user/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/ and modify everything to your likings.
You can rename the folder if you want, but you should also change the name in /home/user/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel/metadata.json then.
manythanks, it worked, …the error was I didn’t copy the whole /usr/share/plasma/look-and-feel/org.openSUSE.desktop/ becouse with desktoptheme I copyed only the differences, so the other things are taken from /usr/… but with look-and-feel isn’t so.
I modified the images and changed the name so I can choose only the splashscreen and the look&feel remain oxygen.
It’s possibly better to use ‘plasmapkg2’ to setup a changed Theme in “~/.local/share/plasma/look-and-feel” – it copies, and updates, from your working directory to the target “~/.local/share/” location:
I tend to modify the “Splash.qml” in “org.openSUSE.desktop/contents/splash/” – things like “Rectangle { color: <QtQuick colour name> }” and
“Image { source: “images/<MyPhoto.jpg>” fillMode: Image.PreserveAspectFit }”.
A “.png” version of the splash image named “splash.png” also needs to be placed in “org.openSUSE.desktop/contents/previews/”
I use images sized to fit the display exactly.
The QtQuick documentation provides a description of things such as the amount of time the default rectangle is displayed before the image is displayed.
pier