Returned to the task of altering the Gnome desktop background. Sorted the issue out at last! As the Developer docs are pretty minimal in this area (consisting of nothing other than a list of function prototypes) I downloaded the Gnome desktop code itself and took a rummage through its dirty linen! What I found was that the calls to set the background etc, in fact modify the gconf settings. Ok, I can now get the background to change but, I don't want the delay of waiting for some Daemon to pick it up! At the moment it takes about 3-5 seconds for a background to change. Looking through the nodes for background slide shows, there appears to be some way of setting the transition duration. So, I'll follow this one up soon.
Given this module some attention today. Added some of the more package wide options to the module and created customised handler for setting the month. (For some odd reason months are are counted 0-11 whereas days are 1-31.) There's still a little more to do to this one including the addition of code to store diary details. Here's the working test script to show the range of options at work. The percentage substitution string item %e explores something that I've been toying with, the name of the signal/event that initiated the call. Ok, a script can keep its own internal trace but who knows, it might prove useful. #--------------- # calendarTest.tcl #--------------- # Author: William J Giddings # Date: 07/05/09 #--------------- #!/bin/sh # the next line restarts using tclsh \ exec tclsh "$0" "$@" #--------------- package require Gnocl set cal [gnocl::calendar] $cal configure -day 8 -month 7 -year 1956 $cal configure -rowHeight 1 -colWidth 1 $ca
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