First Post Of Wallpapoz Category Blog August 26th, 2006

The reason I make this category is to force me to develop wallpapoz harder. Well, I planned to start developing new version of wallpapoz July 2006 but it delayed by FIFA World Cup. After that I learned about yelp to make help function in wallpapoz, i18n using gettext, Gnome HIG, and unit testing. That required a lot of time. I learned a lot of things. Then I worked for few days. Suddenly I got sicks and had to rest for few days. After that I got commercial project to work on. Weeks passed by and I still have not started yet again to develop wallpapoz. Start from this week, I have time to work this project on again. My idea is every time I have another feature implemented in wallpapoz, I make a new post in this category so people who curious about wallpapoz development can follow the progress.

Ok, that’s nice. But what about the first statement of this post, ”... force me to develop wallpapoz harder.” Back when I got commercial project to work on, I had time (not much, but enough) to work on wallpapoz. But I was lazy. So with this blog, I hope I am more motivated to develop wallpapoz harder.

My current progress is still in gui. I have successfully implement add directory with recursive option to wallpapoz gui. Then right now I am moving on to implement manipulation of treeview function (cut, copy, paste). But I am paralleling it with my effort to find answer how to make wallpapoz work with compiz. With compiz, you can have 3d effect on your desktop. But compiz make number of workspace to become one so wallpapoz is unusable. I have to deal with that issue.

I hope every week I will make a new post. So you may wonder when new version of wallpapoz is out. That is another reason to make wallpapoz category blog. I am afraid it will still take a long time to make a new release of wallpapoz. With this blog you can be assured that there will be progress every week. I have many things to implement. This is my todo list:

1. change pooling algorithm to using libwnck library in daemon,

2. have option to change wallpaper per time but not when you change workspace,

3. make it work with compiz (high priority),

4. have option how to display your wallpaper (zoom, scaled, etc),

5. internazionalitation,

6. have help window (using yelp),

7. have unit testing (using dogtail),

8. add directory of wallpapers (done),

9. etc.

To see how far wallpapoz has been through, just grab it with svn client: 
svn checkout http://opensvn.csie.org/wallpapoz/trunk wallpapoz-0.4

Beware the gui is still not functional. You can give me feedback if you want. I promise to my self that I will work on this project for 4-6 hours per week.

3 Responses to “First Post Of Wallpapoz Category Blog”

  1. midnightflash Says:
    September 9th, 2006 at 11:30 AM "4. have option how to display your wallpaper ( zoom, scaled, etc )" Will there be an option to "resize and than tile"? Would be very nice for multimonitorusers like me. ;-)
  2. akbarhome Says:
    September 11th, 2006 at 09:42 AM You got it.
  3. midnightflash Says:
    September 14th, 2006 at 08:41 PM Great! :-D

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