dwall - wallpaper manager

[*ProteanThread*]

http://www.dx13.co.uk/programs/dwall/index.html

dWall is my wallpaper changing app. Rather than using a list of files,
dWall uses a list of folders to organise your files. After all, most
people keep their wallpapers in a wallpaper folder. Especially when
they have enough to need a manager for them!

Keeping wallpapers organised by folder also makes for an instant system
of classification, making it easier to locate the wallpaper you are
after.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

http://www.dx13.co.uk/programs/dwall/index.html

dWall is my wallpaper changing app. Rather than using a list of files,
dWall uses a list of folders to organise your files. After all, most
people keep their wallpapers in a wallpaper folder. Especially when
they have enough to need a manager for them!

Right - I have over 250,000 pictures of babes I use as wallpaper.
They are organized in directories by name (and some general
categories). There might be 10 or twenty pictures in a directory - or
there might be over two thousand - depending on how popular the babe
is and how many pictures I've found on the Net of her. Can your
changer handle this?

Some of them are larger than my 800x600 desktop and some are smaller.
The only wallpaper changer I've found that can resize them and
maintain the correct aspect ratio is WallMaster. I see on your site
that you claim to do this as well. Is that correct?

The main problem I've always had with the free version of WallMaster
is that it limits you to 50 pictures per showlist - although you can
have an unlimited number of showlists. I'd really like a wallpaper
changer that operates off of entire directories. If yours can do
that, AND is stable and light on resources in Windows 98, 2000 and XP,
I'll try it.

 

[Fritz Wuehler]

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Right - I have over 250,000 pictures of babes I use as wallpaper.
They are organized in directories by name (and some general
categories). There might be 10 or twenty pictures in a directory - or
there might be over two thousand - depending on how popular the babe
is and how many pictures I've found on the Net of her. Can your
changer handle this?
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WOW - 250,000 babes!!! Let's see - if you set your wallpaper
changer to change the desktop every 15 minutes & leave your PC
running 24 hours a day, you should finally have seen each one
after just over 7 years have passed. Of course, if you work &
sleep too, you could probably change that figure to 25+ years.

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

WOW - 250,000 babes!!! Let's see - if you set your wallpaper
changer to change the desktop every 15 minutes & leave your PC
running 24 hours a day, you should finally have seen each one
after just over 7 years have passed. Of course, if you work &
sleep too, you could probably change that figure to 25+ years.

Ah, but you see, the wallpaper changes every THREE minutes, so that
cuts the figure by a factor of FIVE!

Of course, the real problem is, most of the time, the wallpaper is
covered up by what I'm working on...

 

[Richard Steven Hack]

Ah, but you see, the wallpaper changes every THREE minutes, so that
cuts the figure by a factor of FIVE!

Of course, the real problem is, most of the time, the wallpaper is
covered up by what I'm working on...

I've now tried this wallpaper changer for a day or so and so far it's
very nice. It shrinks large pictures nicely and expands small ones
with minimal distortion. And it lets me use multiple entire
directories as sources, unlike WallMaster free edition which limits
you to 50 images per showlist (with unlimited showlists).

So I think I've finally found a completely free wallpaper changer to
replace WallMaster.

 

[Susan Bugher]

I've now tried this wallpaper changer for a day or so and so far it's
very nice. It shrinks large pictures nicely and expands small ones
with minimal distortion. And it lets me use multiple entire
directories as sources, unlike WallMaster free edition which limits
you to 50 images per showlist (with unlimited showlists).

So I think I've finally found a completely free wallpaper changer to
replace WallMaster.

home page:
http://www.dx13.co.uk/

dWall page:
http://www.dx13.co.uk/programs/dwall/index.html

Current version: v1.3, released 06/01/2004 (~398k)
http://www.dx13.co.uk/programs/dwall/dwall.zip

Susan
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