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Set as desktop background
Posted: 12 Oct 2013 11:02
by nerdweed
A very small wish.
Can the floating preview and full screen preview have the option to set a picture as wallpaper, please.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 12 Oct 2013 11:07
by Marco
This would go against the concept of portability. However, it is achievable quite easily via scripting.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 12 Oct 2013 12:48
by nerdweed
What has this to do with Portability, its all about usability.
There is already an option to set a pictures as desktop background in context menu, and just needs to be extended to the preview.
There is no need for scripting here.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 12 Oct 2013 12:54
by Marco
XY is designed to not change the host system. Changing desktop background is one of such changes.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 12 Oct 2013 13:06
by nerdweed
I don't quite go with this. Files on a host system belong to the host and then XY shouldn't allow changing it either.
Portability is not leaving traces of the program behind (in this context)
a. Neither registry entries nor broken registry entries
b. No temp files hanging around
And these things shouldn't be done on its own. If a user does that, it doesn't break the portability of the application.
E.g; Shell Integration in settings which adds registry entries. If a user selects this option, does this mean XY is not portable. Definitely not.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 14 Oct 2013 14:10
by arirish
nerdweed wrote:There is already an option to set a pictures as desktop background in context menu
There is? Where?
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 14 Oct 2013 15:43
by nerdweed
It is in the shell context menu for Win7+. Hence I didn't have to go to scripting.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 14 Oct 2013 22:16
by arirish
nerdweed wrote:It is in the shell context menu for Win7+. Hence I didn't have to go to scripting.
Ah. I'm on XP, we have no such indulgence
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 02 Aug 2015 12:28
by SkyFrontier
+1.
Quite disappointing not seeing this little functionality on the best image viewer of the universe...
(seriously: I'm yet to perform a 1:1 check on what I liked on xnView and FastStone, but so far XY is ahead of both, imho)
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 02 Aug 2015 12:49
by Stef123
You got Open With... as a recent addition to the context menu. Should be possible to trigger a UDC-script that takes care of the wallpaper wish.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 02 Aug 2015 13:39
by SkyFrontier
Yes, I'm working on it...
Haven't found a solution, yet. Stuck at finding where in system Win 8 stores wpp path. Open for suggestions...
(trying to avoid external tools like
Wallpaper changer using Irfanview and PaperFolders)
To the ones that may like, here's a hint:
run """...<path>...\IrfanViewPortable.exe ""<curitem> /wall=0 /killmesoftly""";
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 02 Aug 2015 13:49
by Stef123
Can't help you out, you're far more competent in this area. I just figured there ought to be some Windows commandline or batch file way to change the wallpaper without having to rely on OS-version specific paths.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 02 Aug 2015 13:56
by SkyFrontier
There was (reg.exe, System\Wallpaper+Style, cmd).
Win 8 is awesome (they say 10 is better...), but it's a brand new terrortory (sic) for me as I'm several months out of computing.
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 02 Aug 2015 14:10
by Marco
It's a registry key, plus you need to issue a Windows message with a third party utility.
Gimme a sec...
On Win 8.1 x64
Code: Select all
reg add "HKCU\Control Panel\Desktop" /v Wallpaper /d "C:\path\of\your\wallpaper.ext" /f"
rem Utility downloaded from http://windowsxp.mvps.org/wprefresh.exe
wprefresh.exe
Re: Set as desktop background
Posted: 05 Dec 2015 11:58
by nerdweed
Don,
May be we can get a "Set as wallpaper" option in Preview 2.0.
I would have loved to have a XY native SC SetWall, but I know the chances for this are very slim.