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Wally
Current release: 2.3.2 - Stable
Download it - Changelog

wally_lucid_kde4_2.3.2-1_amd64	Debian Package	MD5: 17fe0c5142031f7475d19e1b45ee4b9d
wally_lucid_kde4_2.3.2-1_i386	Debian Package	MD5: 10e5211ded00cf1387b4886181179e96
wally_kde4_2.3.2-1_amd64	Debian Package	MD5: ab47cc262699410797e578358fc3f56f
wally_kde4_2.3.2-1_i386	Debian Package	MD5: ede0c09c91e1dc2af66a57c55b715196
wally_2.3.2-1_amd64	Debian Package	MD5: a5ede64e9de3e2bc3d03d81a922e09fd
wally_2.3.2-1_i386	Debian Package	MD5: b0e8cce033546d6ba9d161dc1d2b17c2
WallySetup-2.3.2	Win32 executable	MD5: 76e285eb10fc02a06a041135a1e3ec6e
Wally-2.3.2	MacOSX image	MD5: 79fc6cb1bd7778d41437c734e65c3f0a

Previous releases:

Wally Logo

Built with

·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:

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:

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

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Author: Tony Sin(x) '76
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