qt-ponies

Qt-ponies (pronounced 'cute-ponies') is an implementation of DesktopPonies (http://desktopponies.bugs3.com/) in Qt. All pony data (images, behaviors, sounds) is taken from DesktopPonies, and is compatible with it.

Inspired by qponies project by svenstaro (https://github.com/svenstaro/qponies).

Installation

Compile the program or download a precompiled binary from https://github.com/myszha/qt-ponies/releases.

• Under Debian-based, you must download and install qt-ponies_$version_$arch.deb and qt-ponies-data_$version_all.deb
• Under Gentoo, you must download and install: qt-ponies-$version.ebuild
• Under Under Arch Linux, use AUR: qt-ponies-git
• Under openSUSE, you must take a package from here
• Under Windows, download and unpack qt-ponies-$version-win32.zip

Running

Run 'qt-ponies'. If you have not added any ponies, the configuration window will be shown (as is the case at first startup).

To open the configuration window, you can double-click on the system tray icon or right-click it and choose 'Open configuration'. You can also close the appliacation from this menu.

Right clicking on a pony brings up its context menu, where you can put that pony to sleep, remove it, or remove all instances of that pony.

Running under Windows

A precompiled binary of qt-ponies is avialable in the downloads section.

Compilation

A compiler supporting C++11 (g++ >= 4.6, clang >= 3.1) is required, as are Qt (version = 4.8) libraries (and X11 developement libraries on X11 sytems).

Under Debian/Ubuntu you can install the dependencies by invoking:

# sudo apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libxfixes-dev libqtcore4 libqtgui4 libqt4-dev qt4-qmake

Then build qt-ponies by invoking:

# git clone https://github.com/myszha/qt-ponies/
# cd qt-ponies
# qmake  
# make  

Or you can use a precompiled Debian/Ubuntu package for i386 and amd64, available in downloads.

Other information

This is a work in progress. Tested on Linux amd64 3.11, Qt 4.8, g++ 4.8.2.

Due to case-sensitivity of filenames under Unix, all 'pony.ini' files must be lower case. The case of .gif files in pony.ini must also be correct.

On Unix systems an X server supporting ARGB visuals and and a compositing window manager are required for transparency of pony windows. Something like Compiz, Unity, Gnome Shell, KWin and most newer window managers support it.

Configuration

The configuration file is kept in:

On Unix:

$HOME/.config/qt-ponies/qt-ponies.ini

On Windows:

%APPDATA%\qt-ponies\qt-ponies.ini

Screenshots of the configuration window

• Add pony screen

• Active ponies screen