Top headlines instead of calendar

[jeremymc526]

Instead of having my calendar on the display I think it would be cool to have the top news items from BBC, NYTimes etc.. Or possibly alternate between the calendar and headlines every couple of hours.

If someone is working on it, please let me know so I don't duplicate work.

[mendhak]

Definitely an interesting idea, I hadn't thought of that but it does seem useful. I think simple to start with - a dedicated layout that showcases headlines, and there would have to be like a 'news provider' similar to the weather provider, alert provider, calendar providers.

I am not sure if it's useful to introduce switching/alternating logic because that will introduce extra moving parts and logic which may want tweaking and maintenance. But if such logic is necessary it should probably be in the run.sh script and not in Python, done by switching layouts at different times. That way the layouts and code can be kept simple.