I like that Windowblinds 6 has the ability to handle wallpapers, but it has one limitation that makes it a bit clumsy for me...

WB6 will only allow to add an entire directory to the wallpaper list.  Now I, like many people I imagine, have my photos organized on by drive into folders; in my case, by "subject".  So photos from a trip to Paris are in the Paris folder, photos from the Grand Canyon are in the Grand Canyon folder, etc.

The problem comes if I only want to use a couple (out of say 50) of images from a folder as wallpaper.  WB6 does not provide any reasonable way to do that.  It does not allow you to add an individual image file to the list, only entire folders.  If I have to add the entire folder, then I get all those extra images in the WB wallpaper list, which clutters it up and makes it harder to find what I want.

So one solution would be to copy your images from their normal folder into a special "wallpaper" folder, but this wastes storage.  (moving them is a no-go; they need to be found where they're supposed to be).  You'd have to do this from every "source" folder you have.

Another solution, which I tried, was to create shortcuts to the original files in a "wallpaper" folder.  Unfortunately, WB6 does not recognize the shortcuts, so this just doesn't work.

Obviously one could get around the problem by creating a hardlink on NTFS, but this is not necessarily desireable, and is beyond the ability of a great many users.

It would really be great if WB would either allow you to add individual files to the wallpaper list, or recognize the shortcuts.  Either would make it much more flexible in handling wallpapers.

Thanks....


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on Feb 14, 2008
Noted to the developers. Thanks for the input!