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Rijksmuseum Wallpaper

A rainy Sunday OSX app to celebrate the new image material made available for the launch of the amazing new www.rijksmuseum.nl.

All artwork and content provided by Rijksmuseum (licensed under CC0).

Application (c) 2012 by Taco Ekkel, MIT licensed.

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1.0

  • (v) Basic app framework, desktop setting
  • (v) Downloading, caching wallpapers.
  • (v) Menu bar icons, menus
  • (v) Preferences window
  • (v) Create/transfer curated collections
  • (v) Represent+control collections
  • (v) Timer + manual control
  • (v) Save settings
  • (v) App icon
  • (v) Add next/prev to menu bar
  • (v) Remove about box
  • (v) Prevent quitting/changing when loading wallpaper
  • (v) Store wallpapers in a more persistent place
  • (v) Make window topmost on preference click
  • (v) Fix spinner alignment
  • (v) Basic multimonitor support
  • (v) Removed 'Cobra' collection (turns out Rijksmuseum can't CC0 this)
  • Never create foreground error messages when not active application
  • Load collection definition from server at startup
  • Be robust against stored settings not matching current collection definition
  • Change timer to date-check instead of running-time check (or check NSTimer survives sleep)
  • Start at launch option
  • Signed executable
  • App store version

1.1

  • Option to box portrait images
  • Load sets from curated rijksstudios
  • Load set names from central server
  • Allow to use your own rijksstudios
  • Show object metadata and backstory
  • Crossfade backgrounds
  • Custom visual design

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