Arch Linux

The package is currently an orphan. Assigning to last packager.

Not interested in doing that so I'm unassigning myself. I'll keep the bug open in case someone else wants to do it.

The package has been an orphan for a while (previous comment is 3 years, 8 months and 29 days old).

Closing this bug and moving archlinux-wallpaper to AUR, unless you want to give it more time.

Adopted archlinux-wallpaper instead of moving it to AUR.

Will look into the gnome background xml file format and see if it makes sens to enable wallpaper cycling.

I'm planning to refresh the collection of wallpapers.

I'm in the process of implementing a utility for cycling wallpapers, regardless of if X11 or Wayland is in use, and independent of which windowmanager is in use.

I currently have resolution and monitor detection in place, as well as a plugin-based method for setting the wallpaper. It works for all windowmanagers and desktop environments I have tested with so far, but more testing is needed.

The utility that will switch the wallpaper based on time of day, or custom events, is in the making and may take from a week to a year to implement, depending on how much spare time I will assign to this.

I created a utility for setting timed wallpapers on Arch Linux, regardless of which window manager is in use, and regardless of if X or Wayland is in use. It's in the `monitor` package on AUR.

In the process, I learned that the XML format used by GNOME timed wallpapers is a bit weird:
* The order of the XML elements matters, there is no per-element ID.
* The static and transition elements don't have a time attribute, they have seconds from when the previous tag was triggered (or when the start of the timed wallpaper, for the first one).
* A year and date is specified, even though only hour and minute seems to count.

Also:
* The choice of the archlinux-wallpaper package to install images in /usr/share/archlinux/wallpaper is unusual.
* The wallpapers in the archlinux-wallpaper package does not really lend themselves to a slideshow. None of the images are especially suited as a "morning", "day", "evening" or "night" pictures.

I think the best plan right now is to hold a competition in creating timed wallpapers, then use the best results. Perhaps also introduce a new timed wallpaper format that is much simpler (something like "06:00-10:00: morning.jpg \n 12:00: day.jpg").

Added a text file in the Simple Timed Wallpaper format, that can be used with the `settimed` utility from the `monitor` package. The wallpapers can now be cycled throughout the day.

Closing as resolved. Please re-open if there are further issues with this.