1 files changed, 98 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/BootSplash.cpp b/src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/BootSplash.cpp
index 5674eaff..1a648973 100644
--- a/src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/BootSplash.cpp
+++ b/src-qt5/core/lumina-desktop/BootSplash.cpp
@@ -16,8 +16,24 @@ BootSplash::BootSplash() : QWidget(0, Qt::SplashScreen | Qt::X11BypassWindowMana
 }
 
 void BootSplash::generateTipOfTheDay(){
-  int index = qrand()%7; //Make sure this number matches the length of the case below (max value +1)
+  //Try to find a system-defined message of the day for lumina
+  QStringList dirs; dirs << LOS::AppPrefix()+"/etc/" << LOS::SysPrefix()+"/etc/" << L_ETCDIR+"/";
+  QString sysMOTD = "lumina-motd";
+  for(int i=0; i<dirs.length(); i++){
+    if(QFile::exists(dirs[i]+sysMOTD)){ sysMOTD.prepend(dirs[i]); break; }
+  }
+
   QString tip;
+  if(sysMOTD.contains("/") && LUtils::isValidBinary(sysMOTD)){
+    //is binary - run it to generate text
+    tip = LUtils::getCmdOutput(sysMOTD).join("\n");
+
+  }else if(QFile::exists(sysMOTD)){
+    //text file - read it to generate text
+    tip = LUtils::readFile(sysMOTD).join("\n");
+
+  }else{
+    int index = qrand()%46; //Make sure this number matches the length of the case below (max value +1)
   switch(index){
     case 0:
 	tip = tr("This desktop is powered by coffee, coffee, and more coffee."); break;
@@ -33,7 +49,87 @@ void BootSplash::generateTipOfTheDay(){
 	tip = tr("This desktop is generously sponsored by iXsystems")+"\n\nwww.ixsystems.com"; break;
     case 6:
 	tip = "\""+tr("I have never been hurt by what I have not said")+"\"\n\n- Calvin Coolidge -"; break;
-  }
+    case 7:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Gotta have more cowbell!")+"\"\n\n- Christopher Walken (SNL) -"; break;
+    case 8:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.")+"\"\n\n- Confucius -"; break;
+    case 9:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.")+"\"\n\n- Albert Einstein -"; break;
+    case 10:
+	tip = "\""+tr("We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.")+"\"\n\n- Calvin Coolidge -"; break;
+    case 11:
+	tip = "\""+tr("One with the law is a majority.")+"\"\n\n- Calvin Coolidge -"; break;
+    case 12:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.")+"\"\n\n- Calvin Coolidge -"; break;
+    case 13:
+	tip = "\""+tr("You can't know too much, but you can say too much.")+"\"\n\n- Calvin Coolidge -"; break;
+    case 14:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Duty is not collective; it is personal.")+"\"\n\n- Calvin Coolidge -"; break;
+    case 15:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.")+"\"\n\n- Benjamin Franklin -"; break;
+    case 16:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window.")+"\"\n\n- Steve Wozniak -"; break;
+    case 17:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Study the past if you would define the future.")+"\"\n\n- Confucius -"; break;
+    case 18:
+	tip = "\""+tr("The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.")+"\"\n\n- Walt Disney -"; break;
+    case 19:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.")+"\"\n\n- Jesus Christ -"; break;
+    case 20:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can.")+"\"\n\n- Arthur Ashe -"; break;
+    case 21:
+	tip = "\""+tr("A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.")+"\"\n\n- Albert Einstein -"; break;
+    case 22:
+	tip = "\""+tr("It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.")+"\"\n\n- Confucius -"; break;
+    case 23:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.")+"\"\n\n- Theodore Roosevelt -"; break;
+    case 24:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.")+"\"\n\n- Eleanor Roosevelt -"; break;
+    case 25:
+	tip = "\""+tr("It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.")+"\"\n\n- Abraham Lincoln -"; break;
+    case 26:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.")+"\"\n\n- Benjamin Franklin -"; break;
+    case 27:
+	tip = "\""+tr("The only way to do great work is to love what you do.")+"\"\n\n- Steve Jobs -"; break;
+    case 28:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Political correctness is tyranny with manners.")+"\"\n\n- Charlton Heston -"; break;
+    case 29:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.")+"\"\n\n- Albert Einstein -"; break;
+    case 30:
+	tip = "\""+tr("I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.")+"\"\n\n- Thomas Jefferson -"; break;
+    case 31:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.")+"\"\n\n- Yoda -"; break;
+    case 32:
+	tip = "\""+tr("A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.")+"\"\n\n- Paul Erdos -"; break;
+    case 33:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.")+"\"\n\n- Plato -"; break;
+    case 34:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Black holes are where God divided by zero.")+"\"\n\n- Steven Wright -"; break;
+    case 35:
+	tip = "\""+tr("It's kind of fun to do the impossible.")+"\"\n\n- Walt Disney -"; break;
+    case 36:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.")+"\"\n\n- Jimi Hendrix -"; break;
+    case 37:
+	tip = "\""+tr("A witty saying proves nothing.")+"\"\n\n- Voltaire -"; break;
+    case 38:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.")+"\"\n\n- Henry David Thoreau -"; break;
+    case 39:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.")+"\"\n\n- Martin Fraquhar Tupper -"; break;
+    case 40:
+	tip = "\""+tr("I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.")+"\"\n\n- Mark Twain -"; break;
+    case 41:
+	tip = "\""+tr("The best way to predict the future is to invent it.")+"\"\n\n- Alan Kay -"; break;
+    case 42:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Well done is better than well said.")+"\"\n\n- Benjamin Franklin -"; break;
+    case 43:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must do what is required.")+"\"\n\n- Sir Winston Churchill -"; break;
+    case 44:
+	tip = "\""+tr("The truth is more important than the facts.")+"\"\n\n- Frank Lloyd Wright -"; break;
+    case 45:
+	tip = "\""+tr("Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.")+"\"\n\n- Abraham Lincoln -"; break;
+  } //end of switch for tips
+
+  } //end of fallback tip generation
   ui->label_welcome->setText( tip);
 }