Hi,
This is my first ever application for maemo. Its a desktop photoapplet which shows the slide-show of all the images in the selected directory and touching the interface brings up the osso image-viewer with that particular image being displayed. Of course, it is yet very far away from complete, I've made the basic functionality working and posting here to know what you guys think about it and any suggestions about how it can be made better.
Basic functionality includes:

• slideshow of course and one touch to open image in the image-viewer

• directory selection

• option to scan sub directories

• choose different time intervals with the maximum 16 seconds.

• choose from 4 transitions or mixture of all as "Random" or without any as "None" to install in the slide show.

TO DO:

• Apply various image effects in the slide-show [Done. More effects in the future updates]
  

• Add control buttons to go forward, back and show (I'm thinking of implementing this with the controls like in media player with the buttons visible on top of the video)[Accomplished..]

• Customizable background

Below are the screenshots of the application and will soon attach the .deb file as well.(Sorry for this list is not updated)




**You can install it directory in the scratchbox/n900 from extras-devel repository. (sorry not extras-testing yet. However, I'll soon promote it to extras-testing as soon as I get chance)

UPDATE: 0.2-1 is updated to 0.2-2
UPDATE FIXES: Crashing of application when invalid image is encountered in the slideshow or when the selected directory doesn't contain any image file.

EDITED: NOV 24, 09:
UPDATE: 0.2-2 is updated to 0.2-3
UPDATE FIXES:
*crashing when exiting applet in edit mode
*unstable writing of configuration file
*image skipping when navigating back and forward with control buttons

UPDATE: 0.2-4 is updated to 0.2-5 (This version is now in the extras-testing repository. ( Just uploaded ))
*Additional options in the settings dialog for selecting transition time and few transitions also support extra settings like direction.
*Disabling slideshow when the device's display is off(As I don't have the real device I couldn't test. I have only tested the function in n810 but not the whole application. So, testers required to help me out on this. Anyone willing to test this plz let me know of any bug.)
*Auto-completion while entering directory name in the settings dialog. It supports only obvious directories like "/home/user", "/home/user/MyDocs/.images", "/media", "/media/mmc1" & "/media/mmc2".
*Updating image list when the image(s) from the selected directory is/are altered is faster.
*Background image is changed to be more distinct in any device backgrounds.

thanks for putting work into this it is something on my whish list.

Is it possable to add an option for changing the size?
I would ask for it to be bigger but i fear thats just what i want and that other users may wish for more screen for other widgets.
Also would there be a way of alowing customiseable/changeable frames maybe an old skool polaroid and perhaps some other designs to make it more personal. Or maybe im asking too much.

Nice to see this useful widget becoming available. Keep up the good work!

Is there any reason to limit the time to a maximum of only 8 seconds?

I'll add these in the TO DOs. However, I'm afraid, resizeable desktop widget isn't recommended. Anyways, widgets size itself can be increased a bit. I'm completely unaware how it will look in real n900.

I would say my bit of laziness as I was reading from files as char and putting 10+ intervals had me to deal with two chars etc etc and just limit that to 8 but it can easily be extended, no problem.

Anyways, thanks for the replies. This is all I need to keep going.

Here's the package to try. Please let me know how it works. I had no problems installing and uninstalling in my scratchbox and I hope this won't happen but let me know if it does. Thanks

EDIT: Please find the package in the first post.

Nice. Can you add special effects or transitions to the slide show.

That's in my TO DO list..

Desktop PhotoApplet now supports transitions/effects in the slide-show and the interval is no more restricted to just 8 seconds. However, the maximum is 16 seconds and I think its enough. Also I will upload the .deb package in my first post and I'm sorry about one thing, it can't be installed in the device yet coz armel version I can't try. I guess it will be just scratchbox version for time being and hence it can mature. So, please, anyone willing to try give me some feedback. Below are the screen shots of the new settings dialog:





There is also option to choose not to have transition in the slide show. All the thanks to Tadej from GTK Forums.

I really like this app and these improvements are great. I would love to send some feedback but I’m still waiting for mine n900

It's not ready for installation in the real device either coz I have the feeling still there are lot of bugs that can be problematic to the device. You can try this in scratchbox if you are using one and let me know of any bugs. Thanks