In order to get my photos from the Editors gig I went to in Camden last night onto Last.fm I had to sign up for a Flickr account. I've been annoyed at my own home grown gallery script for a while, so I thought why not see if Flickr is usable to store all my photos.
My photo album program, KPhotoAlbum, has a Flickr export plugin but I discovered that it mangled the tags. If you tag a photo with a single multi-word tag in KPhotoAlbum it appears as multiple single word tags on Flickr. A quick download of the svn, create a small 10 line patch, test it, place it on KDE's bug tracker and less than five minutes later it gets applied to their subversion repository. Open source software at it's best :-)
In other, Last.fm related news, I'm through to the second round of jobs interviews there. Keep your fingers crossed.
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Mon, Dec. 11th, 2006, 03:59 pm
Christmas In KDE-land
It's almost Christmas, so why not make your KDE desktop all snowy?
The first step is to emerge/apt-get/yum (delete as appropriate) xsnow.
Next up you'll want to make it run when you log into your machine. Create a file in /home/%u/.kde/Autostart (where %u is your username) called xsnow-run. Add the following code to this file:
You can add parameters to control how xsnow runs, personally I prefer -notrees. Make the file executable by typing chmod u+x /home/%u/.kde/Autostart/xsnow-run. If, when you run xsnow, nothing appears go to the KDE control centre, then Desktop, then Behaviour and make sure 'Allow programs in desktop window' is selected.
If your computer spends some time at the login screen (and you use KDM) you might want to make that Christmassy too. In the directory /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm edit the file kdmrc and add the line 'SetVRoot=true' under 'UseBackground=true'.
Next add the following lines to the file Xsetup:
Again, add any parameters to xsnow that you want. Finally, add the following lines to the file Xstartup:
Be careful though, editing your login manager's file could break your computer!
Hurrah! Now your computer is very Christmassy! Why not top it off with a festive wallpaper?
The first step is to emerge/apt-get/yum (delete as appropriate) xsnow.
Next up you'll want to make it run when you log into your machine. Create a file in /home/%u/.kde/Autostart (where %u is your username) called xsnow-run. Add the following code to this file:
#!/bin/bash xsnow
You can add parameters to control how xsnow runs, personally I prefer -notrees. Make the file executable by typing chmod u+x /home/%u/.kde/Autostart/xsnow-run. If, when you run xsnow, nothing appears go to the KDE control centre, then Desktop, then Behaviour and make sure 'Allow programs in desktop window' is selected.
If your computer spends some time at the login screen (and you use KDM) you might want to make that Christmassy too. In the directory /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm edit the file kdmrc and add the line 'SetVRoot=true' under 'UseBackground=true'.
Next add the following lines to the file Xsetup:
xsnow & echo $! > /var/run/xsnow.pid
Again, add any parameters to xsnow that you want. Finally, add the following lines to the file Xstartup:
if [ -f /var/run/xsnow.pid]; then kill `cat /var/run/xsnow.pid` rm -f /var/run/xsnow.pid fi
Be careful though, editing your login manager's file could break your computer!
Hurrah! Now your computer is very Christmassy! Why not top it off with a festive wallpaper?