RSS Image Slideshow Plasmoid

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Wednesday 11 June 2008 16:13:07 Jared Kells wrote:
> I am thinking of working on some patches to the frame plasmoid to show a
> slideshow of images from an RSS feed. So you could for example hook the
> frame plasmoid up to your kids flickr feed.

Cool idea :)

> Firstly has any work already been done on this?
>
> If not what is architecturally the best method of implementing this? A
> Dataengine that scrapes known image types out of RSS feeds?
> Is there any standard stuff for processing rss in plasma?

Have a look at the comic plasmoid, it has that kind of functionality 
implemented as pluggable scripts, you can even download them via 
GetHotNewStuff.
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sebas

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