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zombieFox / nightTab

A neutral new tab page accented with a chosen colour. Customise the layout, style, background and bookmarks with nightTab.
https://zombiefox.github.io/nightTab/
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request: wallpaper list randomizer #85

Closed ronmurphy closed 5 years ago

ronmurphy commented 5 years ago

Is it possible to have a text box where we can add in a link to a wallpaper, and it adds it to a list where we can also choose to delete a wallpaper (click link to highlight / set focus/index?) then a button to delete that selected url?

Have an option that on page shown, it will pick a url at random (or as close as random can be...) and set that image as the background. if this option is not checked/ticked, it will just keep on using the default, not random wallpaper.

IDK if i explained this the correct way, i want to say 'this seems easy enough to do', but that's never the case, really. It's just an idea is all. I showed off nightTab to several friends and all of them asked if it had a wallpaper randomizer built in... I had to say no, so I thought I would go do a request for it. Thanks!

zombieFox commented 5 years ago

Thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry I am having trouble understanding this request. Essentially, are you asking for random wallpapers on load?

I can look into this. But it if it were to become a feature it would be based on URLs and not locally stored files. The local file image background feature is already experiencing issues due to file sizes. I'll investigate.

In the mean time you could use the Unsplash random URL to achieve what I think you may be asking for. Try using this URL in the "Use URL" field: https://source.unsplash.com/random/1920x1080/?night,day,sky.

Changing the words after the ? lets you narrow down the images or choose themes.

jpenilla commented 5 years ago

If it was URL based and we could enter x number of URLs to randomly load from this would be very useful. A local lightweight http host could serve all your wallpapers. I've tested it and it obviously works fine for static wallpapers.

I am trying to do a workaround by having a http/js or http/php page display a random image from a list. The php and js implementations I tried both worked when loading in the browser (one redirected to an image, one displayed a random one on the page itself in an html tag) but neither worked in nightTab.

edit: this was unrelated to what i did in the pr

jpenilla commented 5 years ago

I've created a really basic implementation. Let me know what you think of this #89

zombieFox commented 5 years ago

Feature is now live 🔥

ronmurphy commented 5 years ago

nice, thank you!