OPAA (On Pictures And Acronyms)

I had this idea to add Wikipedia Picture of the Day to the Frame applet and as there are many Pictures of the Day around, I started an engine to fetch them, based on the Comic engine code (which is great btw, thanks Tobias!) So far I did 3 providers: APOD (Astronomy Picture of the Day), EPOD (Earth Science Picture of the Day), no, IPOD is not the 3rd one actually, it's OSEI which displays NOAA weather satellite images. The Wikipedia one is probably the most difficult to code, the ones above are quite easy, the only trick it to extract the pic name (varies each day) using QRegExp and some math calculations from the http source of the main page. I'll check tomorrow if the various providers still display the new pic...
At the moment, I did not include this in the Frame code (except locally for testing). I don't want to overload the Config Dialog GUI which will be redesigned by Jeremy (jpwhiting) to match the Desktop background setting dialog as both have quite the same functionalities. The only addition Frame has is to configure the Frame border. I also plan to have a right click setting which will allow to put the current Frame picture as a wallpaper.
Plasma is still very much a WIP (Work In Progress) but as you can see from the Planet posts, we're moving forward!
The pic shows today's APOD which is the first Explorer, launched 50 years ago!