Clockwork Orange vs WinDynamicDesktop
Clockwork Orange
github.comWinDynamicDesktop
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| Figure | Clockwork Orange | WinDynamicDesktop |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 0 | 0 |
| Spec score · Desktop Wallpaper Software | 7.9 (#11) | 6.5 (#31) |
| License | The project is released under the MIT License, which permits use, copying, modification, and distribution without restriction, subject to its conditions. | The GitHub repository identifies its license as MPL-2.0. |
| Purpose | Clockwork Orange manages desktop wallpapers for KDE Plasma 6, Windows 10/11, and macOS 13+. | WinDynamicDesktop ports the macOS Mojave Dynamic Desktop feature to Windows 10 and 11. |
In their own words
Clockwork Orange
Clockwork Orange manages desktop wallpapers on KDE Plasma 6, Windows 10/11 and macOS 13+. It can select random images from local folders, distribute choices fairly among sources and assign a different image to each monitor. On KDE Plasma, it can rotate the lock-screen image separately from the desktop. Download plugins fetch images from Wallhaven and DuckDuckGo Images on hourly, daily or weekly schedules, with a file limit configurable for each source. Wallhaven’s full catalogue requires an API key. The app records image URLs and content hashes to prevent duplicate downloads, even if a file has been deleted. Marking an image in the window deletes the file and adds its hash to a blacklist for future downloads. Version 4 is a native Go program with a command-line binary that also runs as the daemon, plus a Fyne desktop window with plugin controls, history, blacklist management and settings. It is free under the MIT License. On Linux it can run as a systemd user service; the macOS app is ad-hoc signed and not notarised.
WinDynamicDesktop
WinDynamicDesktop has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.