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David<br><br>Perhaps this would be useful<br><br>http://jstanley.pingerthinger.com/slideshow.html<br><br>Aitch <br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:02:58 +0100<br>From: david.halliday@gmail.com<br>To: kent@mailman.lug.org.uk<br>Subject: [Klug-general] Auto Updating Photo Slide Show<br><br>Hi, I have been asked to set up a system to show photographs at a wedding (this can then apply to any other type of event).<div><br></div><div>The features are:</div><div><ul><li>Display a slideshow of images</li><li>Allow images to be sent to an email address.</li>
<li>Copy images over by hand.</li><li>Display the email address to send images to.</li><li>Preferentially have some priority control on images so new ones are shown first.</li></ul><div>I don't know if any particular image software for linux exists that can do much of this. But What I was thinking of doing was a light weight window manager and using a shell script with the following logic:</div>
</div><div><ol><li>Check email account, download new messages, extract images and copy to image dir.</li><li>Update a database with new images (sqlite for example from shell script).</li><li>Select image file from database (which contains numbers on priority and times image shown) semi random favouring new images or those with high priority.</li>
<li>Handing the file name to an application (qiv for example) which will then display that image.</li><li>Every 5 images (perhaps we can make this variable) display a nice image saying "send your picture to <a href="mailto:whatever@email.com">whatever@email.com</a>"</li>
</ol><div>What do you guys think?</div></div><div>Am I reinventing the wheel?</div><div>Has anyone set up anything like this before?</div>
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