Release v0.9.0 · WallpaperEngineLover/we_manager

Highlights

GNOME on Wayland (GNOME 45 to 50). WE Manager detects a GNOME Wayland session and offers to install and enable the engine's GNOME Shell extension from Settings (also from the Flatpak). You log out and back in once. It tells you when the extension is missing, turned off, failed to load or outdated.
13 languages. English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Turkish, and Simplified and Traditional Chinese. It follows the system language, or you pick one in Settings.
Updates itself. WE Manager checks for new versions and updates an AppImage in place (size and checksum verified), or a .deb through the system's package dialog. Other installs get a notice with a link.
Works on more distros. The engine installer picks the right build for Ubuntu 24.04, Fedora 44 or any other distro with glibc 2.35+, and works on Bazzite, Silverblue and Kinoite without layering packages.
Flatpak with the engine built in.

Split screen: several wallpapers side by side on one monitor, equal or by aspect ratio.
Each screen can have its own wallpaper and playlist, and switching a screen no longer restarts the others.
Wallpapers that need another Workshop item offer to download it.
Verify files: check a Workshop item and repair broken files.
Extra library folders on other disks, with names.
Per-wallpaper settings: image filters, brightness, contrast, saturation, hue and flip, scaling, position, zoom, corner color, playback speed, hiding single layers and effects, custom launch arguments, and x-ray, fog and parallax toggles.
Video trim: loop part of a video, or several parts one after another.
User shortcuts: set which app, file, folder or command a wallpaper element opens.
Schedule: switch wallpapers or playlists at set times, or when the system goes dark or light.
Crash watching: wallpapers that crash are skipped in playlists, and you can retest them and add notes.
Favorites in playlists: play only your Steam favorites.

HDR output and HDR badges and filters, headphone (HRTF) badges and filters.
Shadows, volumetrics, post-processing, MSAA and SSAA, video decoding backend (fixes video crashes on NVIDIA), FPS on battery, pause when idle, pause while another app is focused or behind maximized apps.
Separate ambient volume, sound on one screen only, audio reactivity sensitivity.
Hyprland, Sway and niri: screens come from the compositor, the background layer option, click forwarding files and the autostart line to copy.

Likes, dislikes and favorites are confirmed against Steam and cached, with colored card borders you can change.
Outdated backup filter: shows which backups are older than the Workshop version.
Steam is only connected while the window is open, as with Wallpaper Engine on Windows, so game recording works normally.

Light and dark theme, accent colors, window opacity and KDE blur behind the window.
Animated GIF previews only play on hover, if you like.
Card badges and borders you can turn on and off.

Backups are written staged, synced to disk and verified. Scanning runs in the background.

The AppImage relaunches correctly after an update.
Settings files that can't be read are kept as a copy and reset, instead of breaking the app.
Stricter checks on links and paths, and a stricter content security policy.
Fixed an install that reused an old build from /tmp.
Many tests added.

Full Changelog: v0.8.4...v0.9.0