Wallpaper Cycler: Tag Support
In this post I’m going to describe the new Tag Support in the upcoming version of Wallpaper Cycler. Tags can be assigned to individual wallpapers, layouts, categories and/or layout categories. Wallpaper Cycler supports the notion of tag inheritance. For example: if you specify a tag on an individual wallpaper and on the category of that wallpaper, the wallpaper will have both tags. By allowing you to specify tags on layouts and/or layout categories, you can create layouts that will only be used for wallpapers with a specific tag. With this you can for example assign tags Landscape and Portrait to your wallpapers and create a different layout to be used for landscape or portrait wallpapers.
It’s very easy to specify tags for a wallpaper or layout. You can quickly select the tags you want with the new Tags section in the bar on the right of the main window which you can see in the screenshot below.
This tags section allows you to place a checkmark in front of the tags that you want for the selected wallpaper(s) and you can also use that section to quickly type in new tags separated by a comma. The “Show tags details…” link will open a new window that will show you all the tags and all inherited tags of the selected wallpaper(s). You can also configure the size of this tags section to fit your liking.
There is also a tags editor which looks like in the following screenshot:
The tags editor allows you to add new tags, delete existing tags, rename existing tags or to combine several tags into one new tag. All changes done in this tags editor will automatically be reflected on all places in Wallpaper Cycler where tags are used.
Wallpaper objects in a layout can now be configured to display a random wallpaper with a specific tag.
Wallpaper Cycler includes the following predefined tags: Landscape, Portrait and Square. One of these will automatically be assigned to new wallpapers. These tags are also used in a new feature called “Smart Orientation” which I will explain in another post.
