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Show HN: A Native Art Gallery for the Mac

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Re: Show HN: A Native Art Gallery for the Mac

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homeoffice1 wrote: post #2

That's a slick way to rotate images. Curious, can you name the paintings in the video?

Lessee...

* "The Seasons: Autumn" — Alphonse Mucha

* "A Winding Road" — Sir Matthew Smith

* "Town View, Bogneux" — Anton Lindforss

* "Sea and Sky" — Rafael Martínez Padilla

* "The Ninth Wave" — Ivan Aivazovsky

* "Forever with Moscow. Forever with the Russian People" — Mikhail Khmelko

* "Tsar Dadon Before the Shemakha Queen" — Ivan Bilibin

* "Paysage" — Jean Metzinger

Re: Show HN: A Native Art Gallery for the Mac

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zzzmarcus wrote: post #3

Nice! I've been using a similar app for years. Love it: http://www.artfulmac.com

Yes, I even cite it as an inspiration for making Backgroundifier! I loved the idea and execution, but I wanted to use my own art folders. It no longer appears to be for sale, unfortunately.

Re: Show HN: A Native Art Gallery for the Mac

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Another approach is to create a window at desktop level. It can even display a web page with a system web view — you probably want to opt the window out of receiving mouse events, too, to avoid interfering with drag selection on the Desktop.

I do that at home with a local HTML file to randomly generate a desktop background at startup, and I’ve tried dynamic content (like a countdown clock). Code here: https://github.com/s4y/Dash

But for an app like this, you could do native, animated transitions, and avoid touching the desktop background settings.

Edit: you could even create a smaller interactive window (also at desktop level) with a link to the source, a button to advance to the next wallpaper…

Re: Show HN: A Native Art Gallery for the Mac

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Osmium wrote: post #8

Very nice! Request: art gallery-like legends next to the artwork, with title/artist/date (I imagine this would only work with a curated source of art, but if I ever used something like this, I'd like to learn something too).

That was one of my original goals as well, but unfortunately there aren't many (any?) sources of downloadable art tagged with metadata. Hence, just the filename in the pop-up menu.

Re: Show HN: A Native Art Gallery for the Mac

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Sidnicious wrote: post #7

Another approach is to create a window at desktop level. It can even display a web page with a system web view — you probably want to opt the window out of receiving mouse events, too, to avoid interfering with drag selection on the Desktop. I do that at home with a local HTML file to randomly generate a desktop background at startup, and I’ve tried dynamic content (like a countdown clock). Code here: https://github.…

Neat! Do you know if this works well across Spaces? I went with the wallpaper approach because I figured it was likely to be the least error-prone, especially across OS updates.
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