Picture Frame plasmoid

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Friday, December 17, 2010 20:59:38 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday, December 17, 2010, Chuginator wrote:
> > Instead of restricting the user to specific pictures of the day, why not
> > open it up and allow an image URL?
> 
> good idea; probably the easiest way to do that would be to extend the potd 
> DataEngine. my suggestion:
> 
> * create a service for the Providers source that has "addProvider" and 
> "removeProvider"; this would save the results in a config file (or
> separate  .desktop files for each; either would work fine)
> 
> * have a generic, built-in, provider that uses a provided URL as the image 
> location that uses those
> 
> * check for such defined providers on potd startup and offer them
> alongside  the other providers
> 
> then adding support for this in the plasmoid would be simple and 
> straightforward.
> 
> extra points for adding a QScript backend much like the comics engine did
> so  more complex providers can be added / downloaded from the web.

* Do the same trick as we do with the MediaWiki runner: specify the applet 
shared library, and initialize the applet with an URL passed in through X-
Plasma-Argument= from the .desktop file.

That way, you can even distribute your favorite picture of the day just using 
a single .desktop file. The implementation should also be quite trivial.
-- 
sebas

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