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Wallpaper Tray goes Panel Applet

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-06-27 14:04. GNOME
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I released Wallpaper Tray about a year ago now. The idea was to manage my wallpaper collection, and allow me to display it easily on the Nautilus desktop.

However, it soon became apparent that many people didn't like the program, it was seen by some as an abuse of the Notification Area. From my point of view, i wrote it as a Notification Area program because the API appeared a lot easier to use. However, thanks to GTKmm and Boost I have been able to port the thing to the Gnome Panel over the past few weeks, so here is version 0.5.0.

It may well be a little rough around the edges as yet, but feel free to drop me an email if you manage to break anything.

http://freshmeat.net/projects/wp_tray/
http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=906
http://planetearthworm.com/wp_tray

** Changes **

* now uses the gnome panel
* now uses gtkmm
* now uses boost filesystem and boost regex
* now uses gnome druid for the search tool

Enjoy

earthworm

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I needed this (extra) package by Anonymous George

compiling under hoary

Submitted by rwabel on Tue, 2005-06-28 10:30.

thanks for the new version. Unfortunately there aren't any debian files for the new release. Here is a short howto to compile it under ubuntu hoary
1. sudo apt-get install libboost-regex-dev libboost-filesystem-dev
(these were the only missing packages for me)
2. tar xvfz wp_tray-0.5.0.tar.gz
3. cd wp_tray-0.5.0
4. ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-boostfilesystem=/usr/lib/libboost_filesystem.so --with-boostregex=/usr/lib/libboost_regex.so
5. make
6. sudo make install (for me checkinstall didn't work)
7. add the applet

it's really a great and I prefer it as an applet!

Greets
Ralph
http://ralph-wabel.net

checkinstall by Anonymous George

compiling under hoary or FC4

Submitted by Anonymous George on Tue, 2005-06-28 13:40.

This works with FC4 also. Thanks for the post Ralph.

Multiple wallpapers?

Submitted by WareKala on Tue, 2005-06-28 04:29.

I left already a comment in gnomefiles, but let's just do the same here: I'd like to have the possibility of having different wallpapers on all of my virtual desktops. If Wallpaper Tray supported such, I'd install it immediately.
-WareKala

This is very tricky: Metacity

Submitted by ebassi on Sun, 2005-07-03 08:04.

This is very tricky: Metacity doesn't support a per-workspace background pixmap - and coding this feature could be classified as "interesting" (in the chinese meaning of the term).

Debian - Even Hell Freezes Faster. -- seen on #debian-devel

I second that by Anonymous George

True

Submitted by WareKala on Tue, 2005-06-28 04:58.

One could do that back then, but I've got no idea why they removed it afterwards. I also used SuSE 6.3 back then =D
-WareKala

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