[SailfishDevel] Sailfish OS API: changing home/lock screen wallpaper and running your app on schedule

[Dmitry]

On 22 July 2013 16:45, Lucien XU <sfietkonstantin at free.fr> wrote:

> Le lundi 22 juillet 2013 16:31:17 Artem Marchenko a écrit :
> > Hi Lucien
> >
> > Indeed the app itself is not super complex, it just depends on the
> > availability of two API bits: running app on schedule/event and changing
> > wallpaper, with wallpaper probably changeable via GConf
> >
> > I was thinking about running a daemon instead of asking system to run it
> on
> > time, but shouldn't starting daemons be something too much for an
> ordinary
> > 3rd party app to be approved for the
> > whichever-app-store-will-be-used-in-the-end?
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Artem.
>
> Hello Artem,
>
> I guess that there is nothing like a cron-like thing for userspace
> applications available on Sailfish, so better write your daemon.
>
> Changing wallpaper with gconf do not change the ambiance, and that would
> be a
> pity to have an ambiance not matching the wallpaper honestly.


Atleast on latest SDK ambiance is adjusted when i set wallpaper via gconf

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/meego/background/portrait/picture_filename
--type="string" /etc/mersdk/share/nature_hd.jpg


>
>
And about the app store thing, the best is to wait I guess. The information
> will be revealed at some point (quickly I hope).
>
> Cheers,
> Lucien
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