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I have created a dynamic wallpaper using this app and the Solar option, using the calculator, but sometimes the images are displayed out of order on macOS Ventura.

I have recreated it again with the latest version of the app and it appears a similar problem still exists. When it is morning (usually near noon), one of the images (first sunset-ty image) is displayed, and the rest are displayed correctly.

This is a link to the created file:
https://files.catbox.moe/2dpl49.heic

Thanks!

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15fhDbQnJXuXDXNRRSUG8C706sWCBsGw-?usp=sharing
With the February file, when I go to set the image, it works just fine. However, when I go to set the April file, it just sets my desktop to the default Ventura one.

Hi,

I'm wondering if it would be possible to add a button to automatically transfer the values from the Calculator to the "currently selected image" when creating a Solar wallpaper. Currently, the values must be copied and pasted manually, which can be time consuming with a large number of images. The proposed button would automatically transfer the values in the calculator to the "currently selected" image in the main window.

Thanks!

Hi,
In order to add future editing and improve managing of wallpapers maybe Equinox could have a list view of dynamic wallpapers. Ideally this would have the following features :

• Import/Export
• Sorting & filtering
• Link to wallpaper editing, issue #18
• Apply, duplicate, delete wallpaper
• Customisable storage folder path
• Integration with macOS wallpaper folder/settings ?
• Wallpaper previews

This library should be complementary to macOS wallpaper settings, full remplacement might not be feasible.

The library could be in a sidebar, a separate window, or just from the initial window (a bit like Xcode does for recent projects).

This would need to be divided up as it represents a lot of functionality. What would be needed for a minimum POC ?

Any thoughts ? Ideas ?

Hey! I can't resize the calculator window which opened this way by default.

I'm running macOS Monterey 12.1 (21C52) on a Macbook Air M1.

btw, your project is amazing, congrats!

I am making a custom dynamic desktop, but with lots of images. Navigating with lots of them is not super quick, but would be easily fixed with a scroll bar added.

Problem
This app crashes when I open any HEIC format image downloaded from pap.er (which is a nice wallpaper app on macOS)

Reproduce steps

1. Install Equinox from app store;
2. Download a 5K wallpaper from pap.er (technically any wallpaper should be able to reproduce this, as long as it's HEIC image);
3. Select any type in Equinox, and choose the image file just downloaded, and it will just crash.

Environment
Macbook Pro 16-inch with M1 pro, 32GB memory
macOS Ventura 13.4.1

In this app, the quotation marks used are « and », which are used in French, but in English they should be “ and ”.

My Mac runs macOS Mojave (18G9323). After downloading Equinox from the Mac App Store, it crashes on launch with the following error message in Console:

2021-11-25 01:51:52.819 Equinox[10238:1025170] No Info.plist file in application bundle or no NSPrincipalClass in the Info.plist file, exiting

If I edit Info.plist and add the following key-value pair and re-sign the Equinox app, it launches as expected:

<key>NSPrincipalClass</key>
<string>NSApplication</string>

Can you please update the app to include the key-value pair above by default?

I prepared a sequence of several images beforehand, using Time, with the order: 0:00, 0:05, 0:10, ..., 23:55. However, some of the images are then skipped at times; for example, when it is 13:00, the image set to 14:00 will be shown instead and not change for a while.

Images were stored in: https://macintoshfan.com/other/ (Note that the link may be invalid in the future)

What I'm not sure about is if it is a bug to do with dynamic desktops in general; however, using Dynaper (closed-source code), it doesn't seem to have this bug for some reason.

NOTE: I'm in an area with bad internet, so I'll next be able to send the images in a few days.

I just wanted to point out that the solar feature seems quite broken. Maybe something in the code is out of date with how the latest macOS versions handle this?

I tried this tool and it works perfectly. In fact, I didn't even have to use the whole trick where you pick a system dynamic wallpaper first, then do "Services > Set Wallpaper" with your custom HEIC. With "wallpapper," the HEIC file works and I can just choose it normally in the Mac's Wallpaper settings.

Since that tool is open source, hopefully the code can help! If you want a demo of what's not working with Equinox, I can make a short video showing it. Basically, the solar HEIC shows the wrong image based on what time of day it is where I am, and when I choose light vs dark instead of dynamic, those are wrong too.

Firstly, forgive me if this is not how I should create a feature request, I have never done this before, but I Love the app so far, it's super intuitive, and having made the switch from Dynaper I can safely say I prefer it. However, what both apps appeared to lack was the ability to set a thumbnail for the image. I know that the thumbnails are stored in a generic location:
/System/Library/Desktop\ Pictures/.thumbnails
which I am assuming (like setting custom dynamic papers...) can be worked around by creating a directory at
/Library/Desktop\ Pictures/.thumbnails
My point being, the stock wallpapers, such as the light to dark ones, or the dynamic ones all have an overlay over the top to show the light and dark version of a paper, or (for the dynamics) the different frames of the image file. would it be possible for the app to auto generate a thumbnail like this for the user to move to their desired location? Or better still could the app gain the capability to do this on its own. i.e. the user is prompted and given the option to place the new dynamics into a
/Library/Desktop\ Pictures
folder etc along with the relevant thumbnail being placed in its suitable location...?

Once again, I love the app, and I will continue to use it regardless. Would definitely love to see this feature one day though :)

While this program is amazing for creating HEICs!
...it would be a nice feature to be able to open an existing dynamic HEIC file and change its properties (e.g. Azimuth, Altitude, which image is set to be the thumbnail, etc...)

The string refers to this view:

and can be found here:
https://github.com/rlxone/Equinox/blob/ca879a839f2703ce111b4f4d78b663479bd224fe/EquinoxAssets/EquinoxAssets/Localization/en.lproj/Localizable.strings#LL77C0-L77C90

Good morning,

I tried (multiple times) to use Equinox to create a simple dynamic wallpaper using the "Time" feature.
It should show a wallpaper from 00 until 12 AM and then another from 12AM to 00, but it's stuck on one of the two.
I was wondering if something has changed in MacOS Monterey such that the dynamical wallpapers don't work anymore (even if it's still recognised as dynamical )

Thank you

Toronto is listed as GMT-4. It should be GMT-5 (I suspect this is a daylight saving time thing - sorry if I'm just being dense about how EST vs EDT works). Thanks for making such a wonderful piece of software.

Used 16 images to create a dynamic image.

Used solar tool to identify alt-az for each each photo's time/location.

Created dynamic image, then saved to Pictures directory in user profile.

In MacOS settings, added Pictures directory and selected dynamic image created by Equinox.

Cannot select Dynamic in settings, only Fill/Stretch/Center/etc.

Also, it appears that the primary image used for thumbnail is the same image that gets set as background when trying to select the image for a background.

Using Equinox 2.0 (5) on Ventura 13.4.1

https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma-preview/

When I add 96 images using the Time option, it adds them all just fine, but the times in different images conflict, meaning the images in the sequence are: 12 AM, 1 AM, 2 AM, ..., 11 PM, 12 AM, 1 AM, etc..

Add an option to automatically separate the times for the images, such as every 15 mins in my case (96 images).

I tried to make my own dynamic wallpaper on solar based mode (I also tried on time mode, no difference) and any time I restart my Mac wallpaper changes to default Ventura, nevertheless in wallpaper settings shows that my wallpaper is set. Also I have issues with creating a wallpaper (in solar and time modes), it doesn't work properly if I set a 5 photos with time gap like (6:00 - 12:00 - 16:00 - 20:00 - 23:00) it doesn't work, but I noticed that if add some intermediate time everything seems to be ok, except restarting, wallpaper still crashes at every restart anyway.

The app is not available on the App Store.