What's new in Emerge Desktop 6.1.3
Sep 25, 2012
- Fixed:
- Tooltips not dismissing in emergeTray
- Window order and focus when restoring windows with ShowDesktop
New in Emerge Desktop 6.1.2 (Sep 17, 2012)
- Google Chrome not working correctly
- Update the Tutorial internal command to point to the new site
New in Emerge Desktop 6.1.1 (Jul 9, 2012)
- Fixed:
- Corrected issue where Blur affect did not always work
- Fixed regression where ‘Top’ applets would not always be on top
New in Emerge Desktop 6.1 (Jun 20, 2012)
- New:
- AutoSize 'wrap at' to allow limiting the number of icons per row/column when autosize is enabled
- Fixed:
- Fixed regression in emergeHotkeys where other non-Emerge hotkeys would not behave properly
New in Emerge Desktop 6.0 RC 2 (May 25, 2012)
- Task ordering - task is "dropped" when the left mouse button is released or the mouse leaves the applet
- More apps (i.e. Cygwin X based apps) now show up in emergeTasks
New in Emerge Desktop 6.0 RC 1 (May 18, 2012)
- New:
- Explorer Desktop - enabled via emergeCore's configuration
- Added Alias Editor
- Able to sort by column in emergeTray, emergeVWM, emergeHotkeys and Alias Editor
- Internal commands AliasEditor and CoreSettings added
- eD's ability to run in portable mode has been considerably enhanced: eD is able to run completely on top of Explorer (including emergeTray!) - many thanks to computerfreaker for adding this functionality
- All paths are treated as relative (internally) so eD can be run from USB drive without the worry of the drive letter changing - courtesy of computerfreaker
- Several Internal commands (Quit, Logoff, Disconnect, Reboot, Halt, Suspend, Hibernate, EmptyBin) support a /silent switch so there is no user interaction - long over due thanks to computerfreaker for adding this functionality
- VWMNext, VWMPrev Internal Commands (thanks to ADA for the patch)
- Configure applets button added to the Launch Editor list
- emergeHotkeys activation combination can be selected by user
- Warning about conflicting hotkey combinations shows problematic items highlighted in red on list at startup
- Multiple instances support added to emergeLauncher, emergeCommand and emergeSysMon
- Instances can be started hidden
- Activate internal function replaces executing emergeCommand for a second time to lend focus to input box and replaces static Shift+Esc activation of emergeHotkeys
- Hide/Show for a single applet is a toggle command
- Aliases can execute internal commands
- Automatically scroll when the mouse is over the menu up or down arrows
- Thanks to computerfreaker, emergeLauncher supports a Title, the contents of an Entire Folder (static) or of a Live Folder (dynamic)
- Support for 128 and 256 icons in Vista and above (emergeLauncher only)
- Populate the existing theme name in the "Save As" dialogue
- Internal commands support arguments
- emergeTasks allows for tasks to be re-arranged (thanks to endrju)
- Welcome screen (which can be disabled) when eD starts up
- Fullscreen applet hiding is now independent of applet hiding
- Re-implemented "/nostartup" command line option for emergeCore
- emergeCommand now autocompletes Internal Commands
- Added the "Help" Internal Command
- Full logo added to Welcome dialog (long due public thanks and kudos to AiZ for the design of the eD icon and logo included since version 5.0)
- Changed:
- Removed dependency on external zip/unzip libraries
- Removed reg2xml from distribution - assume everybody is using XML now
- If background alpha is 100% don't convert icons - eliminates CPU hit with CPU monitors in emergeTray
- Edit Launch Applets and Alias Editor moved to Configure Core
- Internal commands CoreLaunchEditor, CoreShellChanger and CoreAbout renamed to LaunchEditor, ShellChanger and About, respectively (old commands still functional for compatibility)
- Updated to latest tinyXML
- emergeMediaCtrl removed as it is very much out of date
- Applet shadow dynamically appears / disappears based on applet visibility
- Visual Studio project files updated
- Distribution batch files updated to use 7-zip
- Updated documentation
- Fixed:
- Potential crash in emergeTray when removing hidden icons from the list
- Displaying non-ASCII characters in time display
- Patch from Tim Kosse to fix an Infinite Loop issue in TinyXML
- Fix parsing of alias file - issues with stray spaces
- Improved tasks displaying incorrect icons in emergeTasks
- "Open Folder Here" (i.e. from Chrome's download list) now works
- "My Documents" special folder under Win7
- Some applications not installing (i.e. Fences)
- emergeTasks hanging with misbehaving task
- Some Tray icon pop-ups displaying at incorrect location
- Tray icons not hiding properly
- Duplicate network icons in Tray
- emergeTasks icon flashing on task update
- Revert to previous workspace area when exiting eD
- The "My Documents" folder will not display a warning when executing as a SpecialFolder under XP (thanks to computerfreaker for the tip)
- Thanks to tips from James Stewart the wallpaper handling is vastly improved and now plays nice with DeskSpace
- Relative Paths should behave better
- System icons will now display in the emergeTray when running eD as the shell under Vista
- emergeTray should be a lot more stable
- Applet shadow now hides when the applet hides
- Properly pad %V when displaying date
- ShowApplet no longer shows all applets when in fullscreen mode
- Displaying a workspace menu no longer displays all applets when in fullscreen mode
- Applet drag border is set to 5 pixels at a minimum (irregardless of border size)
- System icons not showing under Win7 in emergeTray
- Wallpaper slide show not working under Win7
- Additional emergeTray stability fixes
- emergeCore no longer crashes on 64-bit Win8
- Improved icon extraction so emergeWorkspace menus should have less "default" icons
- Corrected issue with duplicate icons in emergeTray when running under Vista
- Fixed crash if there was a space at the end of command to be executed
- Allow commas in the icon name
- Don't allow applets to be started outside of the visible area of the desktop
- Control Panel icon now displays properly again
- Duplicate icons issue on Vista fixed properly this time
- Fixed issue with hidden applets appearing that was introduced by dynamic shadows
- Several potential memory leaks plugged
New in Emerge Desktop 5.2.8 (Dec 10, 2010)
- New:
- Support for Aero styled menus in emergeWorkspace
- Fixed:
- icon flashing in emergeTray
- crash in emergeWorkspace when trying to copy a non-existant style file
New in Emerge Desktop 5.0 (Jul 1, 2010)
- New:
- Theme support
- Dynamic positioning
- Support for 'Run As'
- Re-added 'My Documents' Special Folder
- Created native 64-bit version of Emerge Desktop
- Context menu for emergeDesktop menu items (right click on a item to activate them)
- New Internal Commands:
- VWM_1 to VWM_9 - jump to VWM desktop
- New EmergeVars:
- AppletDir% - location of Emerge Desktop applets
- EmergeDir% - location of Emerge Desktop configuration files
- ThemeDir% - location of current theme
- New applets:
- emergeSysMon - a system resource monitor
- emergePower - a battery charge monitor)
- reg2xml - a utility to convert previous registry based settings to an XML
- based Theme
- Relative paths for schemes
- Colorful startup Theme functionally similar to Explorer
- Ability to run as a self contained/portable shell
- Changed:
- Switched from storing settings in the registry to storing settings in XML
- files
- improved fullscreen checking
- Improved shortcut handling
- Multi-tabbed configuration for each applet
- New icons
- Internal default theme changed from overlapped squares to a gray colored
- Theme functionally similar to Explorer
- Fixed:
- Win7 tray support
- UTF16 to UTF8 and vice versa conversion routines, so non-English characters
- are better supported
- emergeTasks crash when an application rapidly changes it's title
- execution of apps failing that require elevated privileges
New in Emerge Desktop 4.1.3 (Jan 21, 2009)
- Screen Saver / Power Saver fix