Mood-dependent wallpaper? Weather-dependent Music Selection?

[Bart Cerneels]

On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Johannes Schwall
<johannes.schwall at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all!
>
> I'm posting this to both plasmal-devel and amarok list because this
> might be interesting for both groups.
>
> As I was reading the reports about weather-dependent wallpapers some
> time ago, the following thought crossed my mind: Why not open this up
> to also have some mood-sensing system within KDE? Remember the film
> "Antitrust"? When Tim Robbins enters his office, the picture on the
> wall changes depending on his mood. Could it be possible to tie the
> wallpaper changing to amarok's mood bar?
>
> And while I was thinking about this ... why not also do it the other
> way round and have Amarok use the weather information from KDE to get
> a fitting music selection? It's raining outside and I'd probably like
> to hear some slow grooves ... or it's early summer, the sun is shining
> and some fresh jazz should come out of the speakers?

Awesome, a Dynamc Playlist Bias (or should that be Personal Mix
preference) depending on the weather. I like it, and imagine the diggs
on that release announcement :)

>
> This is just an idea, and I won't be doing any programming on this in
> the foreseeable future. I'm sure it's doable, but I wouldn't know how.
> And I'm not sure if this might be of any real interest. I just didn't
> want to forget this without telling anyone and perhaps it's at least
> of some interest for someone out there.
>
> Thanks for all the great work!
>
> Johannes
>
>