An open API service indexing awesome lists of open source software.

https://github.com/roxasshadow/vaporizza

Just a pretty Windows Gadget which displays and allows to run a list of your (Steam) games on your desktop.
https://github.com/roxasshadow/vaporizza

Last synced: 11 months ago
JSON representation

Just a pretty Windows Gadget which displays and allows to run a list of your (Steam) games on your desktop.

Awesome Lists containing this project

README

          

[]()

Vaporizza
=========
Vaporize all your desktop icons!

Just a pretty Windows Gadget which displays and allows to run a list of your Steam games on your desktop.

Installation
--------------

- Download [Vaporizza]
- Be sure your Steam profile is public
- Go in your Steam path (usually `C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\` or `C:\Program Files\Steam\`) and create here a text file called `userid.txt`
- Go in your Steam profile, paste in `userid.txt` your userID (`http://steamcommunity.com/id/HappyUser/` => `HappyUser`) and save it
- Install `Vaporizza.gadget` just clicking on it
- Click the right mouse button on the desktop -> View -> Show Desktop Gadgets
- ???
- Profit!

In order to add some applications in Steam (Origin, uPlay, free-DRM games and whatever), just `Steam -> Games -> Add a non steam game to my library`.

To add them on Vaporizza, download and run (and/or copy it in the Windows startup folder) [SteamShortcutsToXML].

If you want you can get the sources of SteamShortcutsToXML just search it through my repositories.

Gadgets on Windows 8
--------------------

- Download [Windows Sidebar]
- Copy `files` and `install.cmd` in `C:\System32`
- Run as administrator `install.cmd` and proceed with the wizard
- Delete `files` and `install.cmd` from `C:\System32`
- ???
- Profit!

Dependences
-----------

- `zip` (for Linux) or `7zip` (for Windows) to build the gadget from the sources
- Windows Sidebar

Screenshots
-----------

- [http://screenshotto.giovannicapuano.net/photos/Screenshots/NJCB.png]

- [http://screenshotto.giovannicapuano.net/photos/Screenshots/GXWG.png]

[Vaporizza]: https://github.com/RoxasShadow/Vaporizza/raw/master/bin/Vaporizza.gadget
[SteamShortcutsToXML]: https://github.com/RoxasShadow/Vaporizza/raw/master/tools/SteamShortcutsToXML.exe
[Windows Sidebar]: http://cl.ly/2k012I3J231b/download/Windows%20Sidebar%20for%20Windows%208%20RTM.zip
[http://i.imgur.com/SBD94.jpg]:http://i.imgur.com/SBD94.jpg
[http://i.imgur.com/PRk1I.jpg]:http://i.imgur.com/PRk1I.jpg