Emerge Desktop 6.0 RC 2 / 5.2.11 - Changelog

What's new in Emerge Desktop 6.0 RC 2:

May 25th, 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

What's new in Emerge Desktop 6.0 RC 1:

May 18th, 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

What's new in Emerge Desktop 5.2.8:

December 10th, 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

What's new in Emerge Desktop 5.0:

July 1st, 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

What's new in Emerge Desktop 4.1.3:

January 21st, 2009

· Screen Saver / Power Saver fix