Live Wallpaper page gains a "Wallpaper Folders" list (mirroring the
static rotation one) plus an "Available Media" list of the videos/GIFs
found inside them to pick from, backed by a new live-wallpaper-folders
GSettings key and a generalized wallpaperSource.js extension scan.
The preferences page-switcher icons (General, Rotation, Live Wallpaper,
OLED Protection, About) were showing as broken-image placeholders since
they depended on exact symbolic icon names being present in the user's
system icon theme. Bundle a small set of custom SVG icons under icons/
and register them via Gtk.IconTheme.add_search_path so they always
resolve regardless of the system theme.
The Preferences window's availability probe (added to surface missing
GStreamer deps in-UI) reused loadGstreamerModules(), which also checks
for Cogl. Cogl is Mutter's private library — its typelib is only
reachable from inside the actual gnome-shell process (which gets a
private GI search path), never from the separate, plain-GTK4
Preferences process. So the check always failed there with "Requiring
Cogl ... not found" even when live wallpapers were working correctly
in the real shell process, as confirmed by a user report where the
extension's own log showed live wallpaper playback starting cleanly
while Preferences simultaneously claimed GStreamer was missing.
Split into loadGstreamerModules() (Gst+GstApp+Cogl, used only by
liveWallpaper.js in the shell process) and a new lighter
checkGstreamerBaseAvailable() (Gst+GstApp only) for prefs.js, with a
note in the UI that a clean check there isn't a full guarantee since
the private half can't be verified from that process.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019RDqbdjsiisSU7CbQke4g8
Previously, if the Gst/GstApp/Cogl GI typelibs couldn't be loaded (e.g.
gst-plugins-base/good not installed, only the bare gstreamer package),
the only sign was a warning buried in the shell's log — the live
wallpaper page looked fully functional and silently did nothing.
Preferences now probes for the same bindings the running extension
needs and shows a warning row with the exact import error plus
per-distro install commands, and greys out the controls that only
matter once GStreamer is actually available. Extracted the shared
probing logic into lib/gstreamerAvailability.js so extension.js and
prefs.js (separate processes) don't duplicate it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019RDqbdjsiisSU7CbQke4g8
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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