[kde-linux] List of Images Used by Desktop Slideshow

[Robert Morrison]

On Saturday 14 January 2006 14:06, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> On Saturday 14 January 2006 21:02, Robert Morrison wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 January 2006 11:33, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> 
> > > You can use kreadconfig and kwriteconfig to manipulate the entry without
> > > knowing the exact location
> >
> > Wow. That's great. But: can you tell me where I can find
> > more info? No man page, and google is not being my friend.
> 
> The tools are unfortunately mostly undocumented because they are only used 
> internally :(

Well, maybe after your post more people will use it. :)

> I once did a small example for a talk about KDE scripting:
> http://www.sbox.tugraz.at/home/v/voyager/scriptingkde/html/slide_11.html

Nice presentation! (How many nice little kde facilities there are.)
Thanks for the link.

> > I tried:
> >
> > me at myhost:~/.kde/share/config> kreadconfig --key=WallpaperList
> > --file=./kdesktoprc
> >
> > Got nothing.
> 
> kreadconfig --file kdesktoprc --group Desktop0 --key WallpaperList

Ah, I missed the "group".

> > > Another  option is to make the entry use the output of an external
> > > command instead of a fixed list.
> >
> > _Really_ cool. Would that be a backtick trick? Like:
> >
> > WallpaperList=`list_wallpaper_files.sh`
> >
> > Or something else?
> 
> Yes, almost like that
> http://www.kde.org/areas/sysadmin/config_file.php#shell_expansion

Thanks for this pointer, too. It will make the task even
easier than I thought it would be.

Robert