nasa-apod-desktop
Creative
desktop wallpaper
SHOW HN2012
How HN took it
5 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 18 comments about the project. Thread score +0.08.
Execution: 2 for, 2 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Works nicely on Linux desktops
From 2 comments
It works nicely but the image looks squashed vertically on my 1366x768 display.
spindritf on HNWorking on Fedora 17 (GNOME) with two monitors. Very nice!
haukur on HN
Wanted an OSX version
From 2 comments
So cool! I would really love if there was an OSX version
agscala on HNI would absolutely love this for osx. Good work!
Jonanin on HN
Objections
Breaks when APOD posts video or JavaScript content
From 2 comments
Looks nice. Just a small warning though, a couple of times per year they will do something fancy with video or JavaScript that will probably break this.
slyall on HNAnnnnnnd, today it's a youtube video, which fails. :(
Daviey on HN
Hardcoded resolution squashes image on other screens
From 2 comments
It works nicely but the image looks squashed vertically on my 1366x768 display.
spindritf on HNThe size of the image is statically defined in the script: RESOLUTION_X = 1680 RESOLUTION_Y = 1050 Change them to your screen's resolution.
gnufs on HN
Parses HTML with regex, which is fragile
From 2 comments
ah, good to see the old regex for <a href="(image.?)" I wrote a little parser for this site a while back to display the daily photo as a desktop gadget, and had to resort to the…
magic_haze on HNI plan on using an actual DOM parser on my next pass as I fully stand by and believe that you should never parse markup with regex. http://stackoverflow.com/a/1732454
randomdrake on HN
Requests
Mac OS X version
From 2 comments
So cool! I would really love if there was an OSX version
agscala on HNI would absolutely love this for osx. Good work!
Jonanin on HN
Use GSettings API via PyGObject instead of gsettings command
From 1 comment
Congrats! One quick suggestion: I think it would be more straightforward if you used the GSettings API through PyGObject rather than running the gsettings command.
streptomycin on HN
Support other window managers such as fluxbox
From 1 comment
It doesn't need to be a ubuntu/gnome only script, for example to set the wallpaper on fluxbox: ``` fbsetbg -c $the_file ```
darkstalker on HN
Questions
Does the image need resizing in the script or can GNOME scale it
From 2 comments
Do you have to resize it in the script? I think you can just set GNOME to scale it down by itself.
sp332 on HNThe images are quite large (usually over 10MB, at least). Re-sizing them not only saves space, but ensures your desktop doesn't do anything weird when trying to scale by itself.
randomdrake on HN
Alternatives named
Automator workflow on OS X
From 1 comment
You can do it pretty easily with Automator (comes with OS X)…
jarin on HN
Shell script for OS X wallpaper
From 1 comment
I've use a poor man's shell script that does pretty much this and works on OSX https://gist.github.com/1144996
schallis on HN
Fluxbox fbsetbg command
From 1 comment
It doesn't need to be a ubuntu/gnome only script, for example to set the wallpaper on fluxbox: ``` fbsetbg -c $the_file ```
darkstalker on HN