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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
