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[tabbernuk <boamaod@xxxxxxxxx>]

You are welcome to join individual screenlets developers team to update
Slideshow screenlet. Adding more heuristics to find right URLs for
images is completely okay, if it does not break existing functionality.
I suggest that extended heuristics should be used if standard routine
does not lead to detection of a proper image URL.

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       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  [Slideshow]: doesn't work for xkcd.com comics

Status in Screenlets — individual widgets development:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Hello,

  OS: Ubuntu 10.10
  ver.:Screenlets 0.1.5, Slideshow Screenlet 1.3.3

  The Slideshow Screenlet doesn't work properly for the RSS Feed (http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml) of xkcd.com comics by Randall Munroe.
  In the Terminal I can see the following output:
  ---------------

  Trying RSS...
  http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml
  Restored instances from session 'default' ...
  Opened and read.
  4 items found.
  Still variety of 4

  Traceback (most recent call last):
    File "SlideshowScreenlet.py~", line 504, in fetch_mediaRSS
      imageget = urlopen(realimage)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 126, in urlopen
      return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 383, in open
      protocol = req.get_type()
    File "/usr/lib/python2.6/urllib2.py", line 244, in get_type
      raise ValueError, "unknown url type: %s" % self.__original
  ValueError: unknown url type: 
  Trying Folder...

  ---------------
  The error occurs because of the XML Style of the RSS Feed on this Page. The Slideshow Screenlet is looking for the Image URL within a "<media:content:..." tag, whereas the XML File of xkcd.com delivers its Image URL within a <description> tag (after 'img src="..."').
  I don't know, if there are more RSS Feeds with this style. So I just did a little Workaround and just change this for xkcd.com, so there is an if-else statement to look for 'img src="..."' for the Image URL instead of the normal tag, if the self.mediaRSS_URL is "http://www.xkcd.com/rss.xml";.
  It would be useful, if there are more RSS Feeds with this style, to take care of this.

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