WinFavs Changelog
What's new in WinFavs 1.2.6.0
Oct 29, 2014- Presets have been re-branded as profiles
- Preset loading time has been reduced up to 60 times!
- Major performance improvements
- Settings were moved to a separate window with better organization
- The app will suggest reverting settings if it detects a previous session crash
- Some notifications have a button on them à-la-chrome to perform a certain task
- The app will refresh profile and task lists more wisely and less frequently
- Minor user interface improvements
- The app will send anonymous information to the developer only if enabled
- Log improvements
- Fixed creating/editing a shortcut
- Fixed tab ordering in most windows
- Fixed profile editor showing warning signs instead of folder icons if conservative mode is enabled
- Fixed notifications not showing up sometimes
- Fixed app crash when sending feedback
- Fixed crash when toggling auto-refresh while the preset/tasks folder doesn't exist
- Fixed probable unending restart loop
- Fixed showing hints even when disabled
New in WinFavs 1.2.0.0 (Oct 10, 2014)
- You can schedule presets using the new tasking system
- Major interface and usability improvements
- The app will now suggest subdirectories while creating or editing a shortcut
- You can navigate to parent folder while creating/editing a shortcut
- Message boxes received a face lift, have with more features, improved readability and some have 'Never show again'
- You can reorder shortcuts of your presets
- New conservative mode that speeds the preset loading time by up to 10 times
- Presets can take nearly half the time to load even without the conservative mode
- New view mode that provides details about shortcuts
- You can choose to ignore a specific version update
- New hint dialogs that show how to use certain features of the app
- More advanced shell integration with "Edit" & "Apply" straight from preset shell context menu
- Most menus now have icons
- Menus & buttons now have tooltips that inform of their function
- Keyboard shortcuts changed to use mostly the ALT key
- The notification tray icon now is always visible and indicates the app's status
- Toast notifications have a new look & logic, are less intrusive, have better animations and more improvements
- Deep changes to the feedback window (better validation, no need for email and password, much less fields, retry if failed...)
- Improved settings file (your previous settings file may not be read correctly)
- Better handling for unexpected errors
- The settings menu won't close when you change a setting
- Better split button
- You can now copy/cut & paste shortcuts from one preset to another
- Richer and cleaner logging to help investigate further problems
- The app now suggests sending feedback if it detects a previous crash
- Performance improvements
- Fixes to auto-naming shortcut
- Fixes to path validation while creating or editing a shortcut
- Fixes to saving confirmation dialogs
- Fixed showing the app from the notification icon not bringing the window to the front
- Fixed refreshing presets when presets folder doesn't exist
- Fixed the edit shortcut window showing up for the wrong one(s)
- Fixed long application exit if updating
- Fixed preset/shortcut saving bug
- Fixed typos
- Fixed memory leak related to icon fetching
- Proper icon sizing for different view modes
- Fixed opening multiple wfp files at the same time
- More bug fixes
New in WinFavs 1.1.0.0 (Jun 16, 2014)
- Added search functionality to presets
- The app now remembers the last viewed preset
- The app will automatically refresh when the presets folder changes
- The notification tray icon is now always visible
- Some message boxes were replaced by a toast notification
- You can create shortcuts for non-existent folders
- You can choose to automatically name your shortcut while creating/editing it
- Instead of showing the minimize to tray bubble once, the app will show the
- minimize to tray bubble once in every start
- You can change the view of icons
- The app will no longer hide non-existent folders. Instead, it will show it with a '?' icon
- If an update is found, will also show changelog
- New feedback form to send your thoughts about the app
- Ability to import preset from the app
- Changes to some confirmation dialogs
- Refreshing presets won't change the currently viewed one.
- Fixed correct path not being accepted sometimes
- Fixed crash if opened two instances (The app will now show a message and close the newest instance)
- Fixed update crash
- Fixed crash if preset has non-existent folders
- Fixed shell integration (You need to delete your config file)
- Fixed start with Windows
- Fixed drag and drop in the edit preset window
- Fixes to batch shortcut editing
- More bug fixes
- GUI improvements
- Performance improvements