xplanetFX

xplanetFX is a daemon for rendering high quality views of mother earth as wallpaper in real-time (sun, moon and clouds). It comes with a handy GTK interface but is fully usable under CLI.

xplanetFX depends on xplanet and imagemagick and is available as DEB, RPM (untested) and TAR.GZ. The GUI uses pygtk and cairo.

A couple of available templates embed the renderings in different scenes and are downloadable as separate packages which can be easily installed by drag&drop to the themes list in the GUI or since 2.0 directly online via the themepool inside the application.

Features like delayed autostart multi language (japanese, czech, dutch, english, spanish, italian, french, russian, greek and german by now) and a lot of customization make xplanetFX an easy-to-use interface for xplanet drawing the earth in high quality.

The base images of the templates are mostly licensed under creative commons from flickr.com and some free texture stuff from the www.

A lot more information, the users manual and the templates can be obtained under the web adress.

There is a signed repository for the deb package available, please read the infos in the blog under "installation".

Contributions:

* SteveH: maintainance for Arch Linux
* Виталий Камелин (Vitaliy Kamelin): russian language file
* ZoSo Moon: spanish language file
* Greg Drouin: french language file
* Lino Fantasia: italian language file
* bigriver9: japanese language file
* Tim van der Kodde: dutch language file
* Martin Pavlík: czech language file
* vagrale13: greek language file

Thank you very much guys!!

Version 2.5.10:
* Patch by Ryan: CLI setup failed on file paths

Version 2.5.9:
* Check battery state before rendering

Version 2.5.8:
* New address for NASA night map
* New night map for default template

Version 2.5.7:
* Poolview broken since theme \"Sphere Within Sphere\"
* Capitalize all words in theme/thumb/poolview

Version 2.5.6:
* Tray check caused error messages when template process available
* --debug exits after processing

Version 2.5.5:
* Wrong placeholder in language files
* Removed \"swapped\" warning from gtk file

Version 2.5.4:
* Tray icon broke on fresh install without setting language manually first

Version 2.5.3:
* Arch Linux dropped \"pidof\", now caching PID in static file - thanks a lot
to Steve (the maintainer of xplanetFX for Arch) for this patch!

Version 2.5.2:
* Tray icon shows next rendering time while sleeping

Version 2.5.1:
* bug with multiple instances of tray when autostarted

Version 2.5.0:
* New SVG icon
* New system tray icon:
* showing xplanetFX state
* provides on/off-toggle on click
* provides menu to open xplanetFX UI or kill the applet
* configurable (autostart) via UI

Version 2.4.13:
* Notifications disabled by default

Version 2.4.12:
* Autostart entry in XFCE 4 broken

Version 2.4.11:
* Sandbox has composite function, too

Version 2.4.10:
* Updates in Greek language file - many thanks to vagrale13!

Version 2.4.9:
* Bug in ImageMagick 6.7.x: -level is unable to negate

Version 2.4.8:
* Improved city selection

Version 2.4.7:
* Bug: file permissions of Lithuanian language file

Version 2.4.6:
* Added Lithuanian translation - many thanks to Anielius!

Version 2.4.5:
* Use libnotify for status messages (configurable)

Version 2.4.4:
* libwww-perl as dependency in control file and as target in --setup
* Bug in creating autostart entries in GNOME and KDE if xplanetFX is the first
application installed in a fresh home folder

Version 2.4.3:
* Dual-licensed with WTFPL (http://sam.zoy.org/wtfpl/COPYING)

Version 2.4.2:
* Bug with different ImageMagick versions: atmosphere was blurred above the
earths edge and cut on the layers dimensions

Version 2.4.1:
* Fixes in greek language file - many thanks to vagrale13!

Version 2.4.0:
* New feature: templates can hook in the rendering process to execute graphical
processings in a sandboxed environment with reduced binary access
* New feature: xplanetFX --geometry auto
* New feature: xplanetFX --templates (gives a list of all installed templates)
* New feature: xplanetFX --debug
* XFCE >= 4.6 uses xfconf backend
* Environment variable determination transfered in encapsuled function calls
* Debug tries to determine the installed distribution
* Debug throws information about the installed ImageMagick version
* Fixes in greek language file - many thanks to vagrale13!
* ASCII Art in --help .)

Version 2.3.6:
* Use gsettings and gconf always in parallel if installed - thanks to the fucked
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