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Karmic desktop contest script

Canonical

on 24 July 2009

Tags: code , contest , Design , Ubuntu

This article is more than 15 years old.

I wrote a quick-and-dirty Haskell script to download photos from the Karmic Desktop Contest, setting a new photo as your desktop background every ten minutes. Make sure you cabal install flickr first.

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