My logo


Main
· Home
· News
· About
· Downloads
· Gallery
· Articles
· Links
· Where's BeCrux
· My thesis
· My resume


Projects
· IceGenerator
· ClamCour
· Wally
· QExchange


Hosted also at
SourceForgeFreshMeat


Wally
Current release: 2.3.1 - Stable
Download it - Changelog


wally_kde4_2.3.1-1_amd64Debian PackageMD5: 16b858423fbd0ec6530caca876f15dbf
wally_kde4_2.3.1-1_i386Debian PackageMD5: 708d799c44a3ee5b5204432cd67c4e29
wally_2.3.1-1_amd64Debian PackageMD5: df675942a52ce2096edb433b86362414
wally_2.3.1-1_i386Debian PackageMD5: a1758ce4102826ac2407421b9d108e92
WallySetup-2.3.1Win32 executableMD5: 98a41bacd440c2647127daee0dba70a1
Wally-2.3.1MacOSX imageMD5: 5633a3697dedaa9b8e8eb5a078b4c850

Previous releases:

Wally Logo

Built with
Qt

·Features
·Requirements
·Install
·Supported Linux Window Managers
·Translators
·Acknowledgements
·Awards

Wally is a Qt4 wallpaper changer, using multiple sources like files, folders, FTP remote folders, Flickr, Yahoo!, Panoramio, Pikeo, Ipernity, Photobucket, Buzznet, Picasa, Smugmug and Bing images. Now it's available in many languages!!

Note for Ubuntu users: if you're using KDE4, please use _kde4_ packages!!!



Screenshots:
About Flickr Folders
History Viewer Settings

Features
· Runs on Win32, Linux and MacOSX platforms
· History support
· Many wallpaper layouts available on all platforms
· EXIF data available over picture and in system tray tooltip
· Save downloaded photos
· Run-time folder change detection in "Folder" mode
· Proxy support


Requirements
· Qt4 (>= 4.5.0)
· libexif (optional)
· Windows 2000/XP: Active desktop must be disabled! Right-click on desktop -> Properties -> Customize desktop -> Web -> Uncheck all items you find there


Install
Just type:

mkdir build
cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release ..
make
make install

If you have KDE4, your enviroment will be automatically detected, and WallyPlugin will be installed. Remember to restart KDE4 (logoff/logon should be enough) in order to use Wally. Then, select WallyPlugin in Appearance Settings.

To be clear, WallyPlugin IS NOT Wally. It's just a "brigde" between Wally and KDE4, and it must be selected to show Wally images, so Wally has to be started.

When launched, Wally places itself in your system tray. Right-click on icon to show main menu. In Settings window, just select a module, and add items in the list. Wally will download photos according to your search keywords, or use your photos if you're using Files / Folders modules.

Supported Linux Window Managers:
· KDE3
· KDE4
· Gnome
· XFCE4
· Fluxbox
· Blackbox
· FVWM (unstable)
· WindowMaker


Translators
Let me give special thanks to Wally's translators, who are growing :)
· Me :), English and Italian
· Tatiana Rubina, Russian and Spanish
· Márcio Moraes, Portuguese (Brazil)
· Klaus-Peter Gores, German
· Nicolas Remy, French
· Martin Pavlík, Czech
· Dominik Szczerba, Polish
· 御用软件, Chinese

If you want to add your translation to Wally, you just need:
· Qt Linguist
· 15 minutes of your life :)

You don't need to be neither a developer, nor to understand Wally's code.
And, if you need help in using Linguist, just write me.


Acknowledgements

Wally has been deeply inspired by John's Background Switcher, a great software, well designed and much more capable than Wally. Infact, it's still running on one of my PCs :)

Anyway, I decided to write Wally for two reasons:

· JBS is based on .NET, a framework that is not installed on every PC, cause of its "heaviness" and system resources' usage.
· And, mainly, it cannot run on platforms like Linux / MacOSX.

So, I'd like to thank John Conners, for giving me the opportunity to re-use its idea in order to fulfill the universe of wallpaper changers not covered by JBS :)


First of all, I'd like to thank Tanya, my wife, for all her support before, during Wally's development and after :)

I'd also like to thank:

· Francesco De Marchi, Sylvain Gueniot, Oliver Schwabedissen, Ferhat Dogru, Corrado Guarino Lo Bianco, Filippo Venturini, Klaus-Peter Gores, Mike Cooper and Mario R. Carro for bugs reporting and time spent in testing.
· Photobucket staff, for support and promoting.


Awards:

FreewareGeeks.com Soft-Go.Com Download Most Wally video tutorial at downloadtube.com SofoTex.com
GearDownload.com Best Freeware Download Wally Excellent Software Award from FileGets Rated 5 stars on SoftwareLode - free software downloads Exellent Software Award from Actual Download
Reviews on SoftSea  2.3.0 : 5 Stars Award at redsofts.com !  2.3.0 : 5 Stars Award at cleansofts.com ! Wally awarded 5 Stars at the DownloadPipe.com Software Library Best Vista Download
Top 4 Download Windows 7 Download Best Software 4 Download X 64-bit Download Free download software
Software.Informer Editor's pick award





Slack Promo

God Bless Country Music

This site is dedicated in loving memory of my uncle Michael, died on July, 2003.

Copyright © 2004 - All rights reserved.
Author: Tony Sin(x) '76
You can contact me by email - tony (at) becrux (dot) com
also using an OpenGPG crypted email, with this key
or via ICQ - UIN 74913362
or via MSN - tortugalabs (at) hotmail (dot) com


Many thanks to W3C for site validation.
Valid HTML 4.01! Valid CSS!