Feature request: overlay of image title with (or without) clock

[Joshua Taillon]

Not a bug, but a request for feature. It would be great to be able to put the title of the image (if applicable) on the desktop. I don't often find myself going in to use the "where is this image from" option, but it would be nice to be able to quickly see what an image is.

[Peter Levi (peterlevi)]

Basically we can't have built-in support for all sorts of options like this, but this is why I have tried to make Variety configurable and extensible to some extent.
There are two points where you can plug into to make this work for you: the set_wallpaper script in ~/.config/variety/scripts or the ImageMagick filters defined in ~/.config/variety.conf. Both places allow you to run a custom ImageMagick filter on the image before displaying it. Actually in your case, since you need the image title, only the set_wallpaper option is viable. You can either extract the filename part of the image, or you can run some command in the script to find the EXIF title of the image. Then you need to run an ImageMagick filter on the image. Please see the comments in the script and continue from there. You may need info from http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/text/ too.

[Joshua Taillon (jat255)]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for the response. Is there any place for user contributions for this sort of thing? I've hacked together a python script that does what I was describing (seems to work for my one Reddit source). It's available here: https://github.com/jat255/variety_reddit_title but it would be pretty cool if there was a centralized place for users to share this sort of thing.