Feature request

[ghost]

Hi,

First thanks for this, it works nicely and I really enjoy having Bing pic of the day as wallpaper automatically.

Sometimes I wonder what the image displays and I would like the copyright somehow overlaid on the picture. I already use conky to overlay some infos on my desktop, so I was wondering if you could change the output and save the copyright with the picture (i.e. foo.jpg and foo.txt), maybe as an option

Regards,

Régis.

[whizzzkid]

I guess by copyright you're referring to the image information, like artist name and image captions. How about you overlay this on the image before saving?

[ghost]

Yes let me illustrate (with my patch, some conky and today picture):

The advantage of not doing overlay in your script is that it let peoples free to use it (or not). I'm not sure everyone want this text

[whizzzkid]

I understood what you were trying to do here. This would require you to configure a conky widget to get get text from this file and display. However not everyone uses conky, so there should be an option to either create a conky widget along with this script or load the caption written on the image.

I believe it can be as simple as:

convert -pointsize 36 -fill white -draw 'text <x>,<y>' "<caption>" <img>

[ghost]

My request / PR changes nothing on the way your script works, there's only a new text file generated. But if you think a more complicated (but more generic) way is best, that's OK with me, my wish is just to have a way to read this "copyright" without browsing bing.com every times :)

[ghost]

Hi Nishant,

Thanks for the merge :+1: This can be closed

Regards

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For "future reader", here's a sample usage in ~/.conkyrc:

alignment bottom_left

gap_x 10
gap_y 10

TEXT
${color EAEAEA}${font Ubuntu:pixelsize=12}${exec cat "$(ls -1t ~/Pictures/Bing/*.txt | head -1)"}

One could also, as you suggested, use imagemagick (using the cron setup) to perform the overlay