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stu90 · Last edited by stu90 on Fri 08 Jul 2011, 07:22; edited 4 times in total

version 0.3a
added gtk button icons
the wallpaper directory you are in is now shown in Wallpapers bar.

Important update to version-0.3
fixed big bug with wallpaper remover.

latest version-0.2:

SimpleWALL is a Yad GUI for setting your desktop wallpaper.

updated for version-0.2:
Imagemagic dependency for the wallpaper preview has been replaced with vovchik's excellent and tiny picscale-0.1b
New option to select any directory as your wallpaper directory. (folder button)
New option to remove wallpapers from the wallpaper directory. (remove button)

Dependencies (for simpleWALL-0.2):

Yad: available for download here (this is .pet for lucid puppy):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=539647#539647

Picscale-0.1b:
Download is attached below.

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OLD version

Wasn't sure to post this or not as a simple application it has a big dependence (imagemagic) but maybe some one knows or a lighter alternative to convert the wallpapers to thumb nails for the preview and also get image dimensions?

Dependencies (for simpleWALL-0.1):

Yad: available for download here (this is .pet for lucid puppy):
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=539647#539647

Imagemagic (for simpleWALL-0.1 only: available for download here (this is .pet for lucid puppy):
http://www.mediafire.com/file/ubt8a3twn69ilxu/imagemagick_6.5.7.8-1.pet

Only tested on Lucid Puppy.

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1230 Location: Ukraine

Dear Stu,

You could try my little prog picscale http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=34703 for creating the thumbnails, thereby eliminating the megs of ugly IM dependency. Don't get me wrong, I like IM, but picscale weighs in at about 38k and can handle lots of formats - most everything that gdk_pixbuf knows about - and could do this job nicely. It can also adjust h/w ratios on the fly.

With kind regards,
vovchik

stu90 · Posted: Sat 02 Jul 2011, 10:11 Post subject:

Hello vovchik,

I have just been trying your picscale .pet in the simplewall script now - this is a lot better for size and does what i need to generate a thumb nail for the preview, however i seem to have run into a problem being unable to converting image files that contain white space in the name Crying or Very sad

picscale /root/wallpaper image file.jpg /tmp/thumb.jpg 300 350 80

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1230 Location: Ukraine

Dear Stu,

Just noticed that myself. Thanks. I'll see whether I can change it to parse filenames with spaces. I think my argument parser is OK, so it must be elsewhere in the source. I'll have a look....

With kind regards,
vovchik

PS. If you have a jpg of 1200x800, say, and you want to preserve the ratio with a max width of 256, you could say: picscale infile outfile 256 900 9 and you would get the ratio preserved.

vovchik · Joined: 23 Oct 2006 Posts: 1230 Location: Ukraine

Dear Stu,

Please try out the attached mod of picscale. It now seems to handle files with spaces OK. I had to change the syntax slightly (now -i inputfile -o outputfile paramters) to simplify argument parsing. Just run it without parameters in a terminal and you will see the proper syntax. The source and binary (compiled in Lucid) are in the archive.

With kind regards,
vovchik

stu90 · Posted: Sun 03 Jul 2011, 08:16 Post subject: Re: picscale fixed

stu90 · Posted: Fri 08 Jul 2011, 07:24 Post subject:

minor update to version 0.3a see first post.