What's new in Dynamic Theme 1.7.95 Preview
Mar 7, 2024
- Add the region "Italy" for Bing pictures
- Incrust options: when a font cannot be displayed correctly due to a specific character set, the font name is rendered without preview/formatting
- Copyright text has been simplified across multiple translations
- Chinese translation
- Bulgarian translation
- Italian translation
- Dutch translation
- Flemish translation
- Polish translation
New in Dynamic Theme 1.7.84 Preview (Oct 2, 2023)
- What's new:
- Turkish translation
- What's changed:
- Improved formatting of the encrusted description into the picture in some cases
- Updated the library Win2D.uwp to the version 127.0
- What's fixed:
- Ensure the Bing pictures format management can't crash the application if an unknow key is used
- Improved the reliability of the picture viewer to prevent crashes related to the manipulation management
- Some reliability improvements to prevent some rare application crashes
- Incorrect name of current picture displayed with the slideshow option or local picture option
New in Dynamic Theme 1.7.83.0 (Aug 14, 2023)
- Fixed:
- Incorrect reading of the EXIF data in some cases.
- Pause options other than 1 week ar not working in the Lock Screen settings.
New in Dynamic Theme 1.7.82.0 (Aug 7, 2023)
- Japanese translation
- Portugese translation
New in Dynamic Theme 1.7.81.0 (Jul 18, 2023)
- What's changed:
- Removed alpha mask settings for picture fill color related to the selected adjustment (background and lock screen) as this is not applicable in this context Better picture viewer history navigation in some cases (prevent duplicate items, the current picture may not be displayed) when the viewer is opened with a specific picture
- Improved resiliency of the picture overlay settings changes
- Windows UI Library updated to version 2.8.5
- Italian translation
- Dutch translation
- Flemish translation
- Czech translation
- What's fixed:
- Prevent an application crash in rare circumstances with the picture description overlay options page
- Prevent an application crash on old Windows 10 versions whith the action message in the picture viewer
- Management of the animation of the action message in the picture viewer where there are a mutiple actions done in a short amount of time
- Cache incorrectly provisioned when last available Bing picture in the history is selected (+ the background/lock screen not updated)
New in Dynamic Theme 1.7.80.0 (Jul 10, 2023)
- What's new:
- Italian translation is back (thank to Leonard)
- What's changed:
- Microsoft Store Services SDK updated (version 10.2307.3001)
New in Dynamic Theme 1.7.77.0 (Jul 1, 2023)
- Custom fill color option when the picture fit option support it
New in Dynamic Theme 1.7.77.0 Preview (Jun 29, 2023)
- New translations for Bulgarian, Korean, SPanish, German, Romanian, Chinese (traditional), Polish, Portugese (Brazil), Portugese, Serbian
- Remove incomplete translations
- Performance tweaks
- Bug fixes
New in Dynamic Theme 1.7.75.0 Preview (Jun 18, 2023)
- What's changed:
- Chinese (simplified) translation
- Optimized background and/or lock screen update when description overlay settings are updated
- What's fixed:
- One UI 2.8 regression that can crash the application randomly
- A random crash related to the management of internal action synchronization
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.88.0 (May 24, 2023)
- Fixed:
- The UI can be truncated in some languages (troubleshoting wizard)
- Bad UI alignment in the about page in narrow mode
- If the application is opened from an 'update available' notification but there is no more, the interface could remain frozen indefinitely on the update page
- If the application is opened from an 'update available' notification but there are no more updates, the interface might not reflect the actual state of the selected options
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.87.0 (Apr 26, 2023)
- Some internal optimizations
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.86.0 (Apr 26, 2023)
- Some internal optimizations
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.85.0 (Apr 24, 2023)
- New:
- Indonesian translation
- What's changed:
- Add system network settings shortcut into Network settings page
- Add system network shortcut into the picture viewer when the connection is limited/metered (if the associated options are disabled)
- Improvements in some cases of the management of the network connections
- What's fixed:
- Picture viewer: the 'Choose button was not disabled when there is no picture displayed
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.81.0 (Apr 7, 2023)
- What's changed:
- Better startup management (with an appropriate screen) when the application's internal data must be migrated following an update
- What's fixed:
- Viewer performance with Bing pictures when the UHD and 1920x1200 formats are not available
- Poor handling of Bing UHD picture availability which may impact the reliability of the automatic change if the picture is also unavailable in 1920x1200 resolution
- Incorrect next update date when a Bing picture is not available in UHD format
- The picture quality indicator in the viewer is displayed sometimes even when there is no picture displayed
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.80.1 (Mar 27, 2023)
- What's changed:
- Better startup management (with an appropriate screen) when the application's internal data must be migrated following an update
- What's fixed:
- Viewer performance with Bing pictures when the UHD and 1920x1200 formats are not available
- Poor handling of Bing UHD picture availability which may impact the reliability of the automatic change if the picture is also unavailable in 1920x1200 resolution
- Incorrect next update date when a Bing picture is not available in UHD format
- The picture quality indicator in the viewer is displayed sometimes even when there is no picture displayed
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.80.0 (Mar 22, 2023)
- New:
- The current picture quality is now displayed in the viewer (- tooltip to shows the detailed resolution)
- What's changed:
- When the UHD resolution of the Bing picture is not available, the fallback system to the next best available resolution is now supported (Microsoft has changed some things since a month or so, and tho, UHD resolution is less available than before) In the Bing pictures settings, the warning that indicates all the resolution are not always available now uses a bold font Lithuanian translation
- What's fixed:
- When the Bing picture is not available in the UHD format, when saved the file name indicates the right resolution of the picture
- Some internal issues
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.78.0 (Mar 11, 2023)
- Some reliability fixes with the new picture providers availability test logic
- Viewer: an incorrect error is displayed when there is no file selected (cancellation) with the saving feature
- Contact Form: bad state of the email field (UI)
- Some internal errors
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.76.0 (Feb 27, 2023)
- Troubleshooting wizard detects better misconfiguration related to the slideshow feature
- Reliability of the slideshow feature is improved
- Preferences preview style is updated on Windows 11
- The next picture update is indicating in the UI (approximation of one hour)
- Add an entry in the menu of the application when an update is available
- Various other corrections and improvements
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.75.0 Preview (Feb 19, 2023)
- What's new:
- More time choices for the slideshow option: 2 days, 3 days, 5 days and 7 days
- What's changed:
- Internal and telemetry optimizations
- Chinese (Simplified) translation
- Chinese (Traditional) translation
- Korean translation
- What's fixed:
- Bad management of the content culture in some cases resulting in the use of English content that is not available in some countries like China
- Bad management of the zoom in the picture viewer when the sizes are different from one picture to another
- The indication of the next update of the picture with the slideshow option was wrong
- In some cases, when there is no picture in use, the slideshow option could wait the chosen interval before choosing a first picture
- Bad management of the local picture when it no longer exists in the lock screen settings section
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.74.0 Preview (Feb 16, 2023)
- Changes:
- Enhanced EXIF data of exported pictures (acquisition date + title for Bing pictures)
- Improved description of Bing pictures displayed in the application
- Replaced pinnula.fr domain by pinnula.ca for the links
- The browsable viewer is now used when it is opened from a notification (Bing and Windows Spotlight)
- Change of the 'local document icon for a better icon
- Romanian translation
- German translation
- Chinese (Simplified) translation
- Chinese (Traditional) translation
- AppCenter SDK updated to the version 5.0.1
- Windows UI Library updated to the version 2.7.3
- Fixes:
- Bad management of the content culture in some cases resulting in the use of English content that is not available in some countries like China
- The background task responsible to verify if an application update or issue exists is not executed as expected
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.72.0 (Dec 6, 2022)
- In the health wizard, the link to open the background tasks settings now open the panel related to the application itself (Windows 11)
- Improving the random mode (more random) of the slideshow feature
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.69.0 (Aug 31, 2022)
- What's new:
- You can now define if the directories are recursive (off by default to preserve performance) with the slideshow option
- What's fixed:
- When you use a Cloud directory (OneDrive, or your favourite service) with not available locally pictures and your Cloud service is not running, the slideshow option can stop to work
- The random slideshow option was no longer working for some users
- The slideshow option can stop to work (or unreliable) if some pictures in your directories are in bad format (corrupted or partial file)
- Lock screen settings were sometimes incorrectly displayed/refreshed
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.68.0 (Aug 26, 2022)
- Windows is not case-sensitive and the automatic Windows Spotlight pictures export can be impacted by that (few cases only) - the algorithm to detect existing file (for the open button and for the automatic export) is improved to manage that (incomplete previous improvement).
- Error during the first initialization of the current Bing or Windows Spotlight picture when the option to update at a fixed time is used.
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.67.0 (Aug 24, 2022)
- Improved performance of the random slideshow option with large volumes of pictures
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.66.0 (Aug 22, 2022)
- What's changed:
- Windows is not case-sensitive and the automatic Windows Spotlight pictures export can be impacted by that - the algorithm to detect existing file (for the open button and for the automatic export) is improved to manage that
- Improved HTTP requests management to detect when there is a filtering override the expected content
- What's fixed:
- If the installation of an update fails (Microsoft Store not operational or other external cause), the pending update will remain displayed
- Some internal user errors without user impact
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.59.0 (Jul 19, 2022)
- What's changed:
- Chinese (Traditional) translation
- Links use the new dynamic redirection system
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.54.0 (Feb 19, 2022)
- Troubleshooting wizard detects better misconfiguration related to the slideshow feature
- Reliability of the slideshow feature is improved
- Preferences preview style is updated on Windows 11
- The next picture update is indicating in the UI (approximation of one hour)
- Add an entry in the menu of the application when an update is available
- Various other corrections and improvements
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.53.0 (Feb 15, 2022)
- New:
- Serbian translation
- Serbian (Cyrillic) translation
- Changed:
- Bulgarian translation
- Fixed:
- The application could hang at startup due to a bug in the AppCenter SDK 4.5.0 library (back to version 4.3.0)
- Bad management of autosave folder that may indicate permission issue for some users
- Bad management of Windows Spotlight pictures that may use low resolution in rare cases
- One rare crash when a picture is saved locally when Windows is in a bad state
- Some reliability fixes for the background tasks
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.43.0 (Nov 15, 2021)
- In the version 1.6, the UI is completely redesigned to match Windows 11 evolutions! The redesign is also available to the Windows 10 users with some differences like Acrylic material to keep a good integration
- This version also includes:
- Troubleshooting wizard detects better misconfiguration related to the slideshow feature
- Reliability of the slideshow feature is improved
- Preferences preview style is updated on Windows 11
- The next picture update is indicating in the UI (approximation of one hour)
- Add an entry in the menu of the application when an update is available
- Various other corrections and improvements
New in Dynamic Theme 1.6.41.0 (Oct 31, 2021)
- What's fixed:
- Crash on startup affecting only the Windows 10 10.0.17134 (1803) users
- Some user interface issues that only affect users of Windows 10.0.17134 (1803) and below
- Rare possibility of crash in the application update management logic
- Rare possibility of crash with the folder selection control
- Rare possibility of crash when the share feature is used
- Rare possibility of crash when the Flight ID can't be obtained
- Some internal errors without impact on the proper functioning of the application
New in Dynamic Theme 1.4.30202.0 (Mar 5, 2018)
- New UI for Redstone 4+ users with Fluent Design elements (Acrylic and Reveal)
- New right pane to view contextual hints/links
- The splash screen is now optional on Redstone 3+ (Windows decide if it is display or not)
- Messages are now displayed inner the application with a Windows 10 style (previously Windows 8)
- You can choose the application theme (default system theme, light or dark)
- A contextual menu is available in the picture view when you make a right click on the picture
- New Slovak and Czech translations
- Removed incomplete Spanish, German and Dutch translations
- Uses of the last Windows 10 SDK
- Improved performance at the application startup
- Fixed slideshow option, it was long and unreliable in certain circumstances
- Fixed slideshow option, could malfunction if pictures with a long name are used
- Fixed reliability issues when picture's mode is different than 'Fill'
- Fixed reliability of the Background Task execution when an error is occured (next run not correctly and not always set)
- Fixed detection of the current culture to get proper Bing pictures
- Fixed reliability of the application data migration after an update
- In response of received feedbacks:
- You can choose the display language of the application
- You can now support us with a donation!
- Full details of the changes on this page: https://apps.pinnula.fr/9bghzk/changelog
New in Dynamic Theme 1.4.30201 (Feb 22, 2018)
- What's fixed:
- Bing pictures history viewer is not working because of changes in Microsoft's backend
- Crash when opening some menu on old Windows 10 10240 (Threshold 1) and 10586 (Threshold 2) versions
- Possible crash when the application make a query to get available in-app available purchase items
- Known Issues:
- The app works with Continuum but the settings do not apply correctly
New in Dynamic Theme 1.4.30200 (Feb 22, 2018)
- What's new:
- New UI with Fluent Design for Redstone 4+ users (added a title bar)
- Upgrade to the last AppCenter SDK (1.4.0)
- What's fixed:
- Possible crash with slideshow option and random mode when a directory without pictures is used
- When user select slideshow mode, current picture is not used/setted
- Some menus are truncated in some languages
New in Dynamic Theme 1.4.30000 (Feb 22, 2018)
New in Dynamic Theme 1.3.26008.0 (Dec 7, 2017)
- Exception reporting during data migration at startup to catch more scenarios and better
New in Dynamic Theme 1.1.50 (Feb 24, 2017)
- Fixed:
- Windows Spotlight pictures synchronization no longer works since 24 hours following a change in the Microsoft service backend