konawall-py

A rewrite of konawall-rs in Python so that image manipulation is easier and cross-platform support is sort-of easier.

To-do

• Ensure that platforms all work with single and multiple-monitor setting:
  • macOS
  • Windows
  • Linux
    • Current progress: need to set up VM
    • GNOME
    • KDE
    • XFCE
    • Cinnamon
    • MATE
    • LXDE / LXQT
    • Openbox
    • i3
    • sway
• Provide Nix packaging
• Provide installer packages for macOS and Windows, including on-startup functionality
  • macOS
  • Windows
• Sources
  • Turn the current konachan source into a eneralized booru plugin
    • Refactor, allow custom HTTP headers and a specified URL within config
      • Test with e621
      • Test with gelbooru
      • Test with konachan
  • Randomized sources and wallpapers mapping
    • Implementation thoughts: To do this, there would need to be an intermediary between a source instance with a set of tags and another copy of that source instance with a set of tags as far as "presets" to be randomly selected from goes.
    • Allow for a system in a different source is used to fetch a wallpaper or wallpaper(s) for each monitor
    • Allow for a system in which a random source can be used to fetch a wallpaper or wallpaper(s) for each instantiation
    • Allow multiple tag sets to be utilized even within one source, chosen at random
• Replace logging system with a local data store for the history
  • Implementation thoughts: The data store ought to keep a note of the source and tags used to request it and any reasonable data that the API returned, e.g. tags, rating, other metadata...
  • Replace current file downloading system
    • Provide temporary directory as an option via config
    • Provide a permanent directory as an option via config
      • Provide a maximum number of wallpapers / history to keep via config
  • Provide tooling for browsing the history
    • Proper gallery grid UI, open in browser option, ...
    • CLI tooling for searching the history