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 >> _______________________________________________ >> F-spot-list mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list >> > > _______________________________________________ F-spot-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/f-spot-list
