wallpaper thingy 0.1

for the impacient ones download it from here

Why?
Ok so after almost killing myself over bonobo I got this stable. if you read my previous post on this I didn’t found anything I really liked. While developing this I came across 2 very nice programs, although I have too say they both suffer from the “way too many features problem”, to be fair wp-tray and desktop drapes

Features
wallpaper thingy (please please someone give me a good name for it) will very very simple following the UNIX tradition (do something and be great at it), what is this something

• impress you with new wallpapers, therefore the default is random from a dir.
• and it will let you configure many aspects of this (change interval,wp dir, icon to show, and maybe go back to the one before)
• and that’s it. unless you have a very good addition.
• Provides a CLI and a gnome-applet interface with the same code thanks MVC

Instalation
download, untar, sudo make install, then add key to gconf as the README file says.

Usage
Please check the README file, but it’s very simple set your wallpaper dir.

1. As an applet, right click the a panel then “add to Panel” look for wallpaper thingy, then add, after that everytime you click the icon (or 60 secs pass*) you will get a new wallpaper
2. As a cli script, run wp_thingy.py script (no params)

* this will be configurable, if you can’t wait go to wp_thingy.py:34 and change it or delete line 36 so it will never autorefresh

Wanna help?

• Here is what you can do, check the trunk and send me some patches for all the TODO
• give me some feedback (please do not post at trac.)
• run time wp_thingy.py and send me that together with the size/structure of your wallpaper dir to see if the algoritm can be optimized.
• tell everyone about it