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Hello, I'm an old time KDE user since the 1.x days, and I really love KDE, I'm currently using KDE4 on Linux (archlinux) and I had this cool idea that I wanted to suggest, I'm not sure if there is another topic similar to mine already...

Ok, this is the suggestion, when I right click on the desktop, and I go to "Desktop Settings" and then I click on "Get New Wallpapers..." I see something like "Source: ?", it would be really nice if I could add more sources other than the kde-look.org (which is great btw). But I'd also love to have deviantart.com as another source, and the ability to add your own, etc.

Hope you like this idea.

Regards,

Diego

Great idea but

Licenses could not allow some pictures to be used publicly
To get and search pictures we need some sort of api for getting images. Is these or any sites would provide this, I'm 98% for this idea

It could just be scriptable like the comics engine.

Yes !! I agree, this should be scriptable.

Yes it should be simple.

Yes, scripts are the best solution here and in more places in KDE 4. For example an script engine could be useful in "Picture Frame", "Install new widgets", "Amarok's script manager", etc...

I'm writing a couple an Amarok script and you can only test your package uploading to kde-app.org and doing a download and this dislikes me very much.

Languages like Python are really mature an all do a good job with stuff like these because code are simple, easy to mantain, there is no need to compile and, the most important, you must be the worst programmer to obtain crash.

Civ 4 for example is using this aproach with good results. Game is writen in C, or C++ I don't remenber, but parametrization system is using python and result are really good.