Re: [Nautilus-list] Desktop Wallpaper Changer

[Ryan Boder <boder cmu edu>]

> Why make it so complicated?  You could do with a shell script if you had
> to.  Just download the image with wget (or something similar), and set
> the schemas to the downloaded image.


Nobody wants anything to be more complicated than it needs to be. But
it's not as simple as just copying a file from a web server. Nautilus
would need to know what channels are available, and what the files are
in those channels. It would need to know when new files are included in
a channel. It would need to know when new channels are available. It
would have to have a gui to allow the user to select from the available
channels, one that uses gtk widgets I guess.

So it could be done in any language. I would think something like
python/gtk/orbit would work the best. For a shell script to do all that,
it seems like it would be just as much work, but then it would be a
shell script.

How would you go about doing all that in sh? I don't use shell scripts
for hardly anything, so maybe I am missing something.

Ryan