• What's Desktop Drapes


    Desktop drapes is a wallpaper manager application for the gnome desktop. It can randomly changing your wallpaper every once in a while, or whenever you fell like it. It can also automaticaly pickup any wallpapers you added to a directory with the ninja magic of inotify. It's written using C# (mono) with the help of Gtk#/Gnome#. For your viewing pleasure here is a screenshot.

  • Releases

    • 0.5.2 -- "Update, YAY!" (2008-02-10)

        Small fixes
      • Translation updates.
        • Downloads
        • tar ball

    • 0.5.1 -- "And you thought it was all over" (2007-03-28)

      • Rewrote how settings are handeled. The code for that is much cleaner and much more rebust. Scanning the root via the FileSystemWatcher should never happen again as an unitended action.
      • Updated the app translations and also recived a lot of documentation translation. Drapes documentation is now availble in fr, it, ko, pt, pt_BR, sv. Thanks to our launchpad translators.
      • Added an about window, not the greatest feature but hey.
      • Numerous other bug fixes.
      • Downloads:
        • tar ball
        • deb (edgy/feisty) all archs
        • Also comming soon fedora and suse rpms

    • 0.5.0 -- "More of the same, AWESOMENESS!!!"

      • Bugs fixed
      • Updated translations
      • If you want the directory monitoring to work reliably, you need mono 1.2+
      • I make no concesions about the applet part working (it's a PITA), tray icon should work just fine
      • tarball
        all arch deb will work on: edgy, fesity

    • 0.4.97 -- "Baby I've changed; I promise I have less bugs"

      • Lots of bugs fixed
      • Tango styled icons thanks to lapo
      • Docbook documentation
      • The FileChooser now lets you import multiple files or directory tree
      • Should preform better on large collections (althought some work is still needed in this area)
      • Additional translations, and translation updates
      • tarball all arch deb(dapper)

    • 0.4.96 -- "Still no Icon"


      • First public release. (NOTE: these have been updated to fix some issues)
      • tarball all archs deb(ubuntu dapper)

  • Contact

    • You can contact me at mtanski@gmail.com
    • Bug reports can submited to at: launchpad
    • You can also follow the drapes development at my blog located: here. I try to keep everyone updated as much as posible.

  • Git repository

    • I've recently moved from using bzr to git for source control. My friend Ken did all the work converting it for me, for which a million thanks.
    • The anonymous access to the tree should be availble at git://ninkendo.org/drapes.git . To check out the code just simply type in git clone git://ninkendo.org/drapes.git .
    • Ken also provided me with www access to git web, you can access it here.
    • So starting the bzr trees and launchpad clones will seam unmaintained. Hopefuly, launchpad supports adding git branches somewhat soon.