Updated Flickr Saver & a challenge…
I updated the Flickr RSS ScreenSaver (link actually works now) to actually have a configuration sheet and too allow the RSS feed to be customized from the UI. It is far from perfect.
The groundwork has been laid to handle multiple RSS feeds simultaneously. Currently, the UI — the Quartz Composer based presentation layer — needs to b updated to fix the presentation.
Hence, the challenge. I’m out of time on this and, besides, I have the design skills of your average Border Collie.
So, if anyone cares to create a new Quartz Composer presentation for the photo feeds, I will be happy to integrate it into the screen saver. If I get enough good ones, I’ll add a feature to allow the user to choose between different kinds of presentations.
Quartz Composer is a lot of fun to play with and you don’t even need to quit System Preferences to make live changes to the presentation piece.
If you install the saver in ~/Library, then:
And, once opened in Quartz Composer, bring up System Preference’s screen saver module and select the Flickr screen saver. After edit/save in Quartz Composer, hit the “test” button in System Preferences and the test view will reload the newly saved QC document.