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Allow selecting animated GIFs as live wallpapers

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The playback pipeline already typefinds by content and decodes GIFs
via GStreamer's decodebin like any other video, but the preferences
file picker filtered to video/* MIME types only, hiding .gif files.
Widen the filter to include image/gif and *.gif, add an "All files"
fallback, and update the related copy/docs to mention GIF support.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019RDqbdjsiisSU7CbQke4g8
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@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@ protection against OLED burn-in.
through the images inside them on a timer, in sequential or shuffled
order, with an optional crossfade between changes. The chosen wallpaper
can also be applied to the lock screen.
- **Live wallpapers** — play a looping video file as your desktop
background. Frames are decoded with GStreamer and rendered directly by
GNOME Shell's own Clutter stage (no external, incompatible Clutter
build involved). Playback can automatically pause on battery power or
while a window is fullscreen.
- **Live wallpapers** — play a looping video *or animated GIF* as your
desktop background. Frames are decoded with GStreamer and rendered
directly by GNOME Shell's own Clutter stage (no external, incompatible
Clutter build involved). Playback can automatically pause on battery
power or while a window is fullscreen.
- **OLED burn-in protection** — three independent, individually toggled
techniques:
- *Pixel shifting*: nudges the background a few pixels on a slow drift
@@ -34,9 +34,9 @@ protection against OLED burn-in.
- GNOME Shell 50.
- For live wallpapers: GStreamer with its `good` and `base` plugin sets
(e.g. `gstreamer1.0-plugins-good` and `gstreamer1.0-plugins-base`, or
your distribution's equivalent). If these aren't installed, the live
wallpaper toggle stays disabled and BenthicBloom's other features work
normally.
your distribution's equivalent) — the `good` set is also what provides
animated GIF decoding. If these aren't installed, the live wallpaper
toggle stays disabled and BenthicBloom's other features work normally.
## Installation