wmslideshow Reviews

Very nice...! I noted the following: Install goes smoothly on debian stable (stretch). The INSTALL guide should mention that the libimlib2-dev package is a prereq: this package is not installed by default on a typical user debian (and presumably debian derivatives) and the make fails with a cryptic message. Suggested enhancements: 1. The dockapp should perhaps give the user the option to specify a root directory for images/photos/wallpapers. The dockapp would then traverse the tree and pickup all the .jpg, .png, etc. candidates. In my case I have a /date/backgrounds tree further divided into ./Art/[A-Z] … ./Food/[A-Z] … Textures/[A-Z] … etc. So it would be nice to have all images in the tree included by just specifiying the root of the tree. 2. With the dockapp 64x64 pixels, in the epoch of 4K etc. displays it would be nice to be able to hover the mouse over the dockapp to be able to see a blown-up version of the current image in a pop-up. 3. This is probably a fairly large project rather than a mere enhancement that would require much more work… but I had the feeling this great little slideshow manager could be greatly by making it interactive -- e.g. via a double click in the dockapp's viewport. What I have in mind is that once focused the dockapp could accept various mouse clicks (and keyboard actions) to pause the show, move back to the previous image, forward to the next image, change the settings on the fly (delay between the display of images…), make the currently displayed image the desktop's wallpaper… and possibly the possibility to save the current wmaker desktop/style as a .themed theme (wmaker has a "setstyle" command that does just that. Great dockapp in any case…! CJ