RL wrote:
> Justin B Rye <justin.byam....@gmail.com> writes:
>> daily picture from Bing or Windows-Spotlight as wallpaper
>>
>> DailyDesktopWallpaperPlus is a utility to set the daily picture from Bing
>> or
> ^^^
> Is it "use" or "set"? (perhaps it doesnt matter?)
Good idea. "Set X as Y" can be grammatical, but it's more effort to
process than "use X as Y".
> Should it explicitly say "Microsoft Bing" - dont think many people know
> what a "Bing" is.
I suspect the target audience for this package is Windows refugees who
are more likely to know than average, but fair enough, the full
version needs to be somewhere in the long description.
>> Windows-Spotlight as wallpaper, offering a selection of servers and image
> ^
> Is the hyphen correct - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Spotlight
> doesnt use one. It may help to say 'the "Windows Spotlight" service' -
> i'd never heard of this before.
Oops, I'd noticed that but forgot to do anything about it. Yes; I was
assuming it was a *source*, like Bing, but in fact it's a "feature" of
the Windows desktop that helpfully inserts stock photos and adverts on
your lock screen unless you actively prevent it. So it's not exactly
true to say that these wallpapers are *from* Windows Spotlight - the
source is really some URL under <https://arc.msn.com/>. Is that too
pedantic to matter or should it perhaps be strategically vague and
just talk about using "the Microsoft Bing or Windows Spotlight daily
picture" as wallpaper?
> I also didnt understand what "server" means here - maybe it is not even
> needed, could just say "offering a selection of image sizes" which is
> more interesting for the end-user
It might just mean "should it pull from bing.com or msn.com?", but I
think it allows you to choose, say, the US rather than Chinese server.
>> sizes, and caching them so that they can be browsed and selected for reuse
>
> id suggest "downloading them so that they can be reused"
I'm fairly sure it has to download them to display them even once.
But now that we're working on reducing the wordage, the really short
option is:
offering a selection of servers and
image sizes, and caching them for reuse.
> But is this actually allowed - are the images freely licensed? is
> microsoft potentially going to sue anyone using this package without a
> windows licence? A short clarification would help.
Since it doesn't seem to be a Debian package yet I was ignoring
questions like whether it would be in main or contrib or REJECT as
outside d-l-e's jurisdiction. The last few Bing images are at least
available for any web user to look at, but I don't see a "come and
root through our freely licensed back catalogue" link - looks as if
they once offered some sort of archive, but closed it down back in the
noughties.
>> at any later date in DailyDesktopWallpaperPlus's selection tool. Further
>
> everything before the . could be deleted, in my opinion
>
>> information for each picture can be obtained directly from the Internet
>> with
> ^^
>
> i'd suggest "about" rather than "for" here.
And I don't believe it automatically bypasses any proxy server I've
got mediating my Internet connections, so the "directly" should
probably go as well.
Where does that leave us?
daily picture from Bing or Windows Spotlight as wallpaper
DailyDesktopWallpaperPlus is a utility to use the Microsoft Bing or
Windows Spotlight daily picture as wallpaper, offering a selection of
servers and image sizes, and caching them for reuse. Further information
about each picture can be obtained from the Internet with a single click.
.
DailyDesktopWallpaperPlus works automatically in Budgie, Cinnamon, KDE
Plasma 5, LXDE, MATE, TDE, and XFCE4, on either X11 or Wayland.
I don't in fact see any evidence of Wayland support in
https://github.com/pgc062020/DailyDesktopWallpaperPlus/
but then again I'm not sure what it would look like.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
