Bug 98746

Summary: banner screensaver: please allow banner text to be read from file
Product: kscreensaver Reporter: Ben Burton <bab>
Component: generalAssignee: kscreensaver bugs tracking <kscreensaver-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: wishlist CC: ana
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian testing   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Ben Burton 2005-02-07 07:44:57 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.2)
Installed from:    Debian testing/unstable Packages
OS:                Linux

(Received through the debian BTS as #260237.)

A debian user has made the following request:

"Wouldn't it be nice to have the contents of the user's .plan file as a banner on the screen?  Please consider adding the option to read banner text from a file or take a script's output as a banner."

Thanks - Ben.
Comment 1 josh 2005-03-24 05:45:28 UTC
Here, here!  I've got plans for this one if it ever comes along.  You could feed the file an rss from a cron script.  Google news rss on my screensaver.  BAM!

Comment 2 Oswald Buddenhagen 2007-04-12 12:40:29 UTC
the other request is more generic: cat ~/.plan

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 53542 ***