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Users / Re: Linux destroyer

« on: February 11, 2008, 12:32:30 am »

i personally find annoying all the hand-holding warnings that current programs mandate clicking through.  the original poster will likely never get linuxmce working well for him, particularly if he thinks it's "so easy".

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Developers / Re: pictures slideshow, and navigating the source code?

« on: January 19, 2008, 02:16:18 pm »

thanks.

like i said, i did a lot of coding years ago (late 80's, early 90's, c, c-shell, awk and postscript).  it was commercial coding but i was the only game in town, nobody deciding anything but me.  i still meddle but obviously the technology sure has changed.  anyway, my thought was to try to accomplish the task myself, so your comments about how open-source development forums work could ultimately help.  as chewi pointed out, my search prior to posting seems to have been pretty anemic, and simply coming up with a script to manipulate some of my own pics and put them into the flickr slideshow by means already sorted out will accomplish my goal equally well i think.

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Developers / Re: pictures slideshow, and navigating the source code?

« on: January 18, 2008, 04:47:21 pm »

wow, i must be a bad searcher.  thanks.

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Developers / pictures slideshow, and navigating the source code?

« on: January 18, 2008, 10:02:29 am »

first post.  i've no idea how to do so, as i've never worked on an open-source project before, but i did a lot of coding many years ago, and i'm interested in implementing a fullscreen slideshow feature into the pictures viewer.  i thought it might not be exceedingly difficult(?) to find the code that produces the flickr slideshow and alter it to accomplish this (i'd assume that might also involve resizing images).  i downloaded the source code to investigate this and, well, there's a lot of it of course.  how does one navigate the source code to find where things are?  is there some sort of map?  gps? 

thanks in advance for any guidance.

EDIT:  i guess i should elaborate.  what i imagined was playing around with this idea on my machine until i decided it was impossible or until i was successful.  i also assume the task is more difficult than it seems.  is it considered bad etiquette in such a forum to petition help for such an endeavor when the inevitable confusion arises?  i've no idea how such impressive open development works...