The Gallery2 Local Screen Saver & Desktop Changer uses the random Image Block functionality to download random images from your Gallery installation and use them as a Windows screensaver and desktop background. Also allows upload of JPEGs to Gallery.
- Local user-configurable caching and offline mode (displays random pictures from local cache when offline)
- Allows you to specify the max size of the images to be displayed as a percentage of the available screen real estate
- Supports multiple monitors - can choose to have the screensaver fill a screen or the whole desktop. I use UltraMon, so with my screensaver, I can choose to have one screensaver fill the whole virtual desktop, or have two copies of my screensaver running in different monitors
- Authentication against username/password protected Gallery2 installations
- Ability to select random images only from specific albums in your Gallery2 installation
- Ability to change your Windows desktop background at regular, user-selectable intervals to a random image from your Gallery2 installation
- Control over fade-in/out of images, image centre-ing, desktop blanking on startup, collage effect vs. single images, etc.
- EXIF Info display widget on Desktop Changer
- High quality image resampling using a Lanczos Kernel filter when resizing images (will be particularly apparent when resizing small images to fill the screen)
- Requires no other software or graphics libraries to be installed
- Minimum configuration required (at the very least, a Gallery URL and optionally a username and password is required)
- Store history of desktop and screensaver image changes
- Prevention of screensaver startup when particular application is active (user configurable)
- Drag 'n' drop image onto Thumbnail Widget to change desktop image
- Double-click on image in Thumbnail Widget to open image in default viewer
- Optional balloon hint on desktop image change
- Google Earth 4 integration - live display of location of current desktop image and locally cached images (geocoded images only)
- Upload of JPEGs to writeable Gallery albums, including resizing of images prior to upload using a Lanczos Kernel filter, and ability to create albums in Gallery
- Browsing and selection of images directly from albums in a Gallery
Forum posting here: galleryproject.org/node/49773
