[Klug-general] Auto Updating Photo Slide Show

[David Halliday]

Thanks for that, although I think it will have the same issue many
applications have which is not noticing new files added after it was
started. My other issue is controlling priority (show new images more).

I have got the script idea nearly completed. Once I'm happy with it and I
have documented it I'll post details here with a link to my wiki. This is
proving to be an interesting project!

On 16 July 2011 15:04, nic dan <dungeons88 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  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 images
>    - Allow 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:
>
>    1. Check email account, download new messages, extract images and copy
>    to image dir.
>    2. Update a database with new images (sqlite for example from shell
>    script).
>    3. Select image file from database (which contains numbers on priority
>    and times image shown) semi random favouring new images or those with high
>    priority.
>    4. Handing the file name to an application (qiv for example) which will
>    then display that image.
>    5. 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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