Wallpaper manager

If wallpapers were women, i'd be the biggest a-hole in the planet. I cycle through, and change wallpapers every 15 minutes sometimes. OSX has some great walls but sites like interfacelift have hundreds of really good ones. The default wallpaper manager in osx is good, but not great if you have a lot of variety and wanna have it really organized. For example, in the wallpaper preference pane, i can only add one extra folder to the list, and I can add some walls to the pictures folder, but that's it. If I wanted to add folders for say... anime, videogames, geeky, dark, the pg-13 and naughtier kind, I couldnt.

Unless I am missing something (which i hope i do since i dont wanna download anything else that the os should easily do by itself), is there a good, simple, wallpaper manager for osx?

Edit:
I have tried adding folders to the desktop pictures folder in the library, but only the first one I create shows up, I think the one with the first letter closest to a, the rest do not show up.

 

You can add shortcuts (aliases) to folders containing images you want into the folder you have selected in the Desktop manager to have them all available for use.

 

It's not working. I created the alias of the folder that contains the pictures I want to make available on desktop manager, then i moved it to the folder I previously selected to show in desktop manager. I cant see the folder or the pictures... maybe Im doing something wrong.

 

Isn't there an option where your desktop wallpaper cycles randomly every 15 min or so? Or was that in another OS or in Leopard?

 

Yeah, its an option in Tiger. Go to System Preferences > Desktop & Screensaver, and at the bottom of the window there's a checkbox to change picture every [amount of minutes].

 

Ah right...and i just re-read the OP's post and realized he was asking something else ... Ah well, sorry.

 

OK I found a better solution just in case anyone is interested here is what you have to do:

First you have to make folders with the wallpapers you want inside Library > Desktop Pictures.

Then go to (Your Volume) > System > Library > PreferencePanes

In there right click on DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefpane and click on show package contents. Then go to Contents > Resources. Inside there is a file called DesktopPictures.prefpane

Right-click that and again click on show package contents. Now go to Contents > Resources, there will be a file called Collections.plist

Open that with TextEdit, and just add identifiers.

Here is an example of what I did:


{
identifier = Art;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Art";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Babes;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Babes";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Beaches;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Beaches";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Cars;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Cars";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Cityscapes;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Cityscapes";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Coasts;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Coasts";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Digital;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Digital";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Food;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Food";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Lakes;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Lakes";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},

{
identifier = Movies;
path = "/Library/Desktop Pictures/Movies";
showScalingPopUp = NO;
},


Just keep adding more as you see fit, depending on the wallpapers you have.

I should add that you have to modify this file outside of resources because for me it wouldn't let me overwrite it inside that directory. It also goes without saying that you should backup these files if you plan on tinkering with them, but in the end you get this:


Not sure if this was common knowledge, but there it is anyway. You'll have a nicely organized wallpaper library inside your desktop pictures folder, where it should be.