[KimDaBa] Re: Want a bit of programming fun?

[William Holland]

selectbackdrop.pl has been put onto the wiki page:
http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=Image%3A%3AKimdaba

# Usage:
# selectbackdrop.pl /path/to/kimdaba/ category tag [/path/to/tmpfile]
#
# provide /path/to/tmpfile if you want the images to be rotated 
# - it will create a rotated image at this location which will be displayed.


If you want to change the way the images are displayed then you'll have to 
update the script... just a minor mod :)

Let me know what you think (but no comments on my poor coding style)

Will
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On Wednesday 23 Nov 2005 15:51, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> (Did anyone get the email below from the list?)
>
> On Wednesday 23 November 2005 00:22, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote:
> | If someone is sitting out there waiting for a small, fun, but still
> | usefull project, that even involves a cool project (kimdaba), and which
> | you can be sure of one user from the start (me) plus announcement on a
> | cool website (kimdaba's), then pay attention.
> |
> | I have so many nice nature pictures in my database that I'd like to use
> | for the desktop background. It therefore would be so nice if there was a
> | small script using the Kimdaba perl library from
> | http://search.cpan.org/~jmfayard/Image-Kimdaba/lib/Image/Kimdaba.pm
> | which would choose a random picture with say the keyword = desktop and
> | set that as the background of my computer.
> |
> | Any takers?
>
> And here is some code for setting an image on the desktop from a script:
> dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper "$file" 0
> dcop kdesktop KBackgroundIface setWallpaper "$file" 1
>
> (Its from an ancient script of mine, so I dont understand it anymore, but
> it might be usefull as a starting point)