After several months of work Lively 2.0 is finally ready!
Everything is rewritten from scratch with CORE and UI now being separate programs powered by .NET 6!
- New CORE takes less resources when running in the background.
- New UI is using latest framework WinUI 3 from Microsoft and closely follows Windows 11 design language.
Feature trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DEgioIRUHI
What's new Lively v2.0.0.0:
- Core and UI now uses latest .NET 6 with faster performance
Runtime installation is no longer required on host system. - Complete UI redesign closely following Windows 11 design language.
Thank you @zeealeid for the help. - Fixed(?) wallpaper disappearing after sleep.
- Fixed webpage wallpapers disappearing in some display scale system configurations.
- Updated CEF browser (includes important security patches.)
- Updated dependencies.
Note:
- If you prefer the UI program running in the background always then enable Fast startup Lively in settings.
- New commandline control utility is required (included with this release.)
- New screensaver file is required! (included with this release.)
Known v2.0.0.0 issues (to be fixed):
- Application language is set automatically based on operating system preference and cannot be changed manually.
- Some optional wallpaper plugins such as vlc player is not implemented.
- Edit wallpaper metadata after importing not implemented
- Multiple wallpaper import not implemented.
SHA256:
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