[lotsofmangos]

I was just thinking that given osx desktop background already has a feature to cycle through a directory of images, if you have imagemagick and curl then to do something that generates backgrounds from online MOTD services could be done in one line of bash.

[atjonasnielsen]

That sounds like a fun experiment :) I can confirm that people are willing to pay for simple apps that has a positive impact on their life.

[bemmu]

How would you solve choosing the right font size though? It should be such that the longest line perfectly fits the width.

[lotsofmangos]

generate an imagemagick text label at a certain font size, then pipe it to identify -size , pull the width out of that and then use the result to calculate the required font size which you then use in a second textlabel

edit - or just generate a large text label to start with, then scale it to whatever is required