I have seen the OS X wallpaper dialog. And, the way the new capplet works, it would be very easy to add Categories support to it. Had it come up during the discussions for the mock-up I sent, I probably would have written it already. :) I'll add Categories to the TODO. -- dobey On Hën , 2003-10-27 at 06:56, Jeroen Zwartepoorte wrote: > Hi Dobey, > > Have you seen Mac OS-X's wallpaper thingy? One nice feature it has is > categories: there are "Apple", "Nature" and "Abstract" categories > (possibly more). I'm not sure if you can create your own categories > (point at a directory etc). This sounds like a good feature to have in a > new wallpaper capplet (we could add a GNOME and/or Ximian category for > example. There's lots of artwork in those categories). > > Regards, > > Jeroen > > On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 01:18, Rodney Dawes wrote: > > I have just released the initial revision of the new wallpaper capplet > > that I have been working on in my spare time, and has been under > > discussion on gnome-themes-list. This initial release is quite > > featureful, yet it is still missing the "random" feature that was in > > my mock up, as well as some other features and functionality that are > > outlined in the TODO file that is included in the tarball. > > > > The main feature is the storage of meta-data and the list of available > > wallpapers, in an XML file in ~/.gnome2/. For each individual image, the > > filename, a descriptive name, image scaling type, background color type, > > and background colors are all stored. There is no DTD yet, but one will > > be written for the next release. > > > > Also left to do, is to write the logic for detecting if the image is a > > tile or should be scaled or what. It currently detects most tiled images > > already though, on the basis of height vs. width. If they are the same, > > Tiled is automatically selected. > > > > I'm also proposing that we replace the current capplet(s) with this one > > for GNOME 2.6. > > > > Here are the relevant URLs: > > > > http://www.gnome.org/~dobey/gnome-wallpaper-properties-real.png > > http://www.gnome.org/~dobey/gnome-wallpaper-properties-0.2.0.tar.gz > > > > -- dobey > > >
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