New engine: various Pictures of the Day

Anne-Marie Mahfouf annemarie.mahfouf at free.fr
Fri Feb 1 04:40:08 CET 2008


Hi all,

I am starting a new engine based on the "comic" one (thanks Tobias) to add 
nice pics to the Frame. The engine will connect to various Pictures of The 
Day websites (and maybe also to sites like Flickr), I started today with APOD 
(Astronomy Picture Of the Day) which is working more or less (meaning that 
like comic, the first display is a bit wacky in the sense that it needs to 
reconnect to show the pic or something)

So with this engine on the making I need to add functionalities to the Frame 
config dialog [Frame will use the Desktop config dialog as this one was 
derived from frame and nicely improved and offers the same settings and 
more - JP Whiting is the CDM (understand: Config Dialog Master) and is in 
charge of that part]. 

My question:
1) develop a Frame applet (sort of branch) in playground along with the engine 
and merge later with the one in Extragear when the engine will go to 
Extragear
2) leave the Frame in extragear with the new code and put only the engine in 
playground
The engine needs to go to playground in any case.

Cheers,

Anne-Marie



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