Yes, my dad actually suggested the exact same thing! I should definitely give it a thought.
I'm also planning to use the same Linux machine to serve family photos to our PS4 in the living room — the photos would be on an external hard drive connected to it, basically turning it into a home media server alongside HomeOS. One box quietly doing everything in the background. The photo widget would fit nicely into that setup since the images would already be on the machine.
Other platforms have been doing it this way for over a decade, and I've found stacked diffs (with Phabricator and Gerrit at least, not tried the GH version yet) to massively simplify my workflow o_O
Think of this as a very old game, with a board simple enough you can trace it on the ground and play with a few stones, with rules simple enough you can explain/understand in 30 seconds. Like tic-tac-toe, mancala, nim, chopsticks... simplicity and portability wins over perfect rules or balance.
Cool idea for you:
Have one of the widgets as a photo album.
Upload some images, or maybe connect to a Google Drive folder.
Then every day it shows a family photo! :)
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