Re: Desktop background image extension?

[David Barrett <dbarrett quinthar com>]

Under what circumstances would the database be unavailable?  My 
understanding is SQLite allows unlimited concurrent readers, though only 
one writer.  Is there some other constraint, or am I misunderstanding 
SQLite?

-david

Stephane Delcroix wrote:
> Hey David,
>
> Writing this as an extension will require a running f-spot instance. On
> the other hand, accessing the db directly might fail if f-spot is
> running...
> The correct proper solution would be implementing this just like the
> f-spot-screensaver is done (if there's a running f-sopt, contact it,
> otherwise start one, do the stuffs, stop it).
> I don't think it's worth the pain... so in your case, I'd cook a
> perl/bash/ruby/python/you-name-it cron script with error handling for
> busy/unavailable database.
>
> regards
>
> s
>
> On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 23:33 -0800, David Barrett wrote:
> > Hi, I'm making the switch from Mac to Ubuntu and one of the few features 
> > I miss is the ability to automatically set my desktop background image 
> > to a random picture from my iPhoto library.  Does something like this 
> > already exist for F-Spot, or how would you recommend I go ahead and 
> > build it?
> >
> > I see you use SQLite under the hood; would the easiest/recommended way 
> > be to just create a Cron script that:
> >
> > 1) Opens that database
> > 2) Picks a random "favorite" image
> > 3) Updates the desktop background
> > 4) Exits
> >
> > Or, is this something better done as an extension?
> >
> > Thanks for the great tool, and I'm curious how I can help!
> >
> > -david
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