Re: Desktop background image extension?

[David Barrett <dbarrett quinthar com>]

Great idea, can you share that script?

Alternatively, perhaps I could just hack Desktop Drapes to have a "Use 
F-Spot Favorites" function...

Either way, thanks for the recommendation!

-david

Todd Slater wrote:
> My solution for this was to tag images in F-spot, then run a script to
> create symlinks to images with the relevant tag, and use Desktop
> Drapes to manage the actual wallpaper switching thang.
>
> Todd
>
> On Feb 8, 2008 2:33 AM, David Barrett <dbarrett quinthar com> 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