Counter to Fedora 8 release?

[Andrew Myers]

Okay this might be a bit harder than I originally thought.  I was
originally thinking of doing something in Javascript but I think
Mairin's suggestion is awesome and I am still happy to have a go at
it.  I might be slow tho...


On 21/10/2007, Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:
> Andrew Myers wrote:
> > Is anyone working on this?  If not I will have a crack at it.
>
> Hi,
>
> Attached is a counter design in SVG with a bitmap preview.
>
> If you look at the xml in the SVG, you have to change the element with
> the 'counter-text' id (it's inside the element with the 'counter' id) to
> whatever number of days are left and the graphic will update accordingly.
>
> You might be able to write a script in python using inkex to modify the
> value [1]... maybe use command-line inkscape [2] to re-render the PNG
> for display on the website.
>
> Just an idea anyway.
>
> ~m
>
> [1] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/PythonEffectTutorial
> [2] http://wiki.inkscape.org/wiki/index.php/ScriptingHOWTO, inkscape man
> page
>
>