Automatic Switch between Landscape and Portrait Pictures

[loyukfai]

Thanks Marc, have a nice week!

[loyukfai]

Any news...?

[Marc G]

No, not yet

[Socrates1]

I like this idea, Marc G's first suggestion: "An extra option for each wallpaper with which you can say that the wallpaper is either portrait or landscape." Can you add a third option when both the width and height are equal to make it state square?

I have my layouts grouped by landscape and portrait, square equaling both categories. With this option I can easily sort all my many images and accurately assign the correct layout category. I see the landscape and portrait has been in the queue a while and wanted to voice my support on this suggestion and add to it.

Thanks.

[Marc G]

Thank you for the feedback.

In fact, I'm working on this portrait/landscape feature right now. I will add "Square" to the list.

[Marc G]

I just think of something...

The next version will have support for user-defined tags. Tags can be assigned to wallpapers, wallpaper categories, layouts and layout categories. I think we can use this tag system for implementing the Portrait/Landscape/Square feature. Wallpaper Cycler could predefined 3 tags: Landscape, Portrait and Square. On importing wallpapers, Wallpaper Cycler will automatically enable the correct tag for each imported wallpaper. The new version will also contain Search Folders which you can use to search all wallpapers with a specific tag, so this could be used to quickly find all portrait, landscape or square wallpapers.

Only 1 extra thing needs to be implemented and that is a feature that Wallpaper Cycler uses the current screen resolution to decide whether to use only Portrait or only Landscape layouts/wallpapers.

What do you think about this?

[Socrates1]

I think it is a great option for the Document or Program Settings, where the end user can base their orientation by the image or screen resolution. Should you want to give the end user the choice. As an end user with a widescreen, I wouldn’t want to be locked into only Landscape layouts/wallpapers since more images are portrait. Basing the orientation on the image provides more flexibility because the image is portrait, landscape, or square and the layouts take care of rest.

[Marc G]

I'm implementing the Smart Orientation feature.
This feature will allow you to tell Wallpaper Cycler to only use wallpapers with certain tags when the primary monitor is in landscape or portrait mode.

The following is a screenshot from the configuration of the Smart Orientation feature: