19 Aug
2014
19 Aug
'14
9:03 p.m.
On Tue, 19 Aug 2014 15:26:10 +0100
Michele Calgaro <michele.calgaro(a)yahoo.it> wrote:
Unfortunately, I believe the new feed is in a different format, per
http://kde-look.org/help/api.php
I get the impression from that page that the old one is still supposed to be maintained,
though,
so we could try contacting them to ask what's going on.
I believe the lists used are:
http://download.kde.org/khotnewstuff/wallpaper/wallpaper.xml
http://download.kde.org/khotnewstuff/wallpaper/wallpaper-score.xml
http://download.kde.org/khotnewstuff/wallpaper/wallpaper-downloads.xml
They each seem to contain 10-20 wallpapers' worth of details, no more. That being
said, they're XML feeds,
and we could create an additional one of our own by scraping their pages and RSS, then add
it as a new
selection in the leftmost box in the screenshot. The scraping part is finicky but not
difficult, provided
they don't change the RSS entry format.
E. Liddell
The feed is
still not-quite-working (no new additions since Nov. of last
year, even though there are newer wallpapers on the site)
I noticed that as well.
It is possible that a new list (with a different name) is now used. If that is
the case and it does not require major changes, we should look at adding the new list as
well when fixing bug 2093. BTW: is there
a way to show all available wallpapers?
I guess that that may require some
additional software. I haven't look at what the code does, but it seems that
at the beginning 3 lists are downloaded (3 file transferring windows pop up on my screen)
and those are probably
used to populate the 3 tabs.
Provided that kde-look.org makes the list available (and I guess it does), we could write
some code to let the user
download the list of all wallpapers. The download could actually require sometime, so we
should make it optional
(perhaps an additinal button somewhere).