Re: Gnome Desktop wallpaper changer

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 30 Jun 2009, at 10:36, sankarshan wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Sumit Chakraborty<cool sumitc gmail com 
> > wrote:
>
> > I want to create an application that will get new wallpapers from
> > gnome-look.org and change the desktop wallpaper with the users  
> > permission.
> > Since I am a newbie to Gnome, I want some guidance regarding how I  
> > may
> > proceed to create this application. Any help from creators of a  
> > similar
> > application is welcome.
>
> While it would be a good idea to begin with gnome-look.org, at some
> point in time, the application should have a feature to allow the user
> to add URLs to similar repositories of appropriately licensed art. For
> example, to begin with, if the application allows the listing of - top
> downloaded, thematically similar, size based classifications, it would
> be nice to have.

Bryan Clark, Alberto Ruiz and I talked about how the GUI might look  
for this (well, actually for new backgrounds via RSS feeds) a couple  
of years ago.  I'll see if I can dig out some of the mockups that we  
kicked around at the time.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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