Desktop Pictures
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MacGizmo
Graphics Guy
You can do what you want, but you will need OSX Developer's Tools installed (which came on the OSX install DVD) or at the very least, have TextEdit.
Here is the solution as provided by somebody somewhere that I don't remember (but I saved a text clipping of it a long time ago).
The Desktop Prefs gets its information as to what picture folders are available from a property list. It then puts the entries from this plist into its drop-down menu, and renders thumbnails of all the pictures it sees in the corresponding folders.
Navigate to the plist file located at (By control clicking and "Show Package Contents):
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane/Contents/Resources/DesktopPictures.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Collections.plist.
Double-click Collections.plist and it will open in the PropertyList Editor. Expand the six gray triangles on the left of the property list nodes and you will begin to see how the plist controls the behavior of the Desktop Prefs.
To add another collection, click on Root in the PropertyList Editor, and click New Sibling. Then change its class from String to Dictionary inside the Class column. Then add new children to that, basically re-creating the structure of the other nodes below it. I'm not sure what showScalingPopup does. Feel free to experiment.
OR:
You can manually edit/add them with TextEdit.
Either way will work.
Here is the solution as provided by somebody somewhere that I don't remember (but I saved a text clipping of it a long time ago).
The Desktop Prefs gets its information as to what picture folders are available from a property list. It then puts the entries from this plist into its drop-down menu, and renders thumbnails of all the pictures it sees in the corresponding folders.
Navigate to the plist file located at (By control clicking and "Show Package Contents):
/System/Library/PreferencePanes/DesktopScreenEffectsPref.prefPane/Contents/Resources/DesktopPictures.prefPane/Contents/Resources/Collections.plist.
Double-click Collections.plist and it will open in the PropertyList Editor. Expand the six gray triangles on the left of the property list nodes and you will begin to see how the plist controls the behavior of the Desktop Prefs.
To add another collection, click on Root in the PropertyList Editor, and click New Sibling. Then change its class from String to Dictionary inside the Class column. Then add new children to that, basically re-creating the structure of the other nodes below it. I'm not sure what showScalingPopup does. Feel free to experiment.
OR:
You can manually edit/add them with TextEdit.
Either way will work.