Showing CC-BY attribution in background chooser

[Nicu Buculei]

On 09/16/2010 12:50 PM, Martin Sourada wrote:
> we, at the design team, are searching for a way to add attribution to
> wallpapers. We'd like to display it in the tooltip that appears in when
> you hoover over an wallpaper in backgrounds chooser in a similar format
> that KDE does it, e.g.
>
> <b><wallpaper name></b>
> Author:<author name>
> <basic image info>
> Folder:<path to where the image is>
>
> As you see, it only adds the 'Author:' line to what already is there. Is
> there some way to do it currently, or would we need to write a patch to
> background chooser?

I think we may need also an URL for proper credit (for example when we 
are using a Free image taken from flickr) - or can we abuse the <basic 
image info> for that?

> Plus, is there any place where I can get the DTD file that's used as
> DOCTYPE in all XMLs in /usr/share/gnome-background-properties:
> <!DOCTYPE wallpapers SYSTEM "gnome-wp-list.dtd">
>
> I cannot find it anywhere (hence the reason why I ask if there already
> IS a way)...

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