Whilst I can’t credit this functionality to Microsoft (Mac OS X has had both slideshow and RSS support for some time), it’s a very powerful idea that’s still in its infancy stages. Unfortunately this means many feeds (such as the Nasa Astronomy Picture of the Day) are ineligible. Images must be an enclosure item in the feed for the slideshow to work.
If you fancy some RSS feeds of your own, add the following snippet to your. I hope both issues are addressed in the final build for a more intuitive experience.Īnother issue in the beta is the lack of means within the themes control panel to specify a feed URL, so you will have to resort to a text editor to get the job done. A logout/login should be sufficient, but more simply you could open the theme control panel and toggle between two themes to force a manual refresh. But once the photos are downloaded, the theme does not automatically refresh to queue the new photos in the slideshow. Because this is a background process, it will take considerable time to download the high-resolution photos within the feed. First of all, this feature utilizes the Windows RSS Platform which automatically refreshes and download feed enclosures in the background. The first time you double click to install the theme files you might find yourself enjoying nothing more than the default “beta fish” wallpaper, this is due to a number of bugs related to this feature.