[Klug-general] Auto Updating Photo Slide Show

[nic dan]

David

Perhaps this would be useful

http://jstanley.pingerthinger.com/slideshow.html

Aitch 

Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 11:02:58 +0100
From: david.halliday at gmail.com
To: kent at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: [Klug-general] Auto Updating Photo Slide Show

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).
The features are:Display a slideshow of imagesAllow images to be sent to an email address.
Copy images over by hand.Display the email address to send images to.Preferentially have some priority control on images so new ones are shown first.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:
Check email account, download new messages, extract images and copy to image dir.Update a database with new images (sqlite for example from shell script).Select image file from database (which contains numbers on priority and times image shown) semi random favouring new images or those with high priority.
Handing the file name to an application (qiv for example) which will then display that image.Every 5 images (perhaps we can make this variable) display a nice image saying "send your picture to whatever at email.com"
What do you guys think?Am I reinventing the wheel?Has anyone set up anything like this before?

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