Hawkscope Changelog

What's new in Hawkscope 0.6.2

Jun 22, 2009
  • Quick access list is now being saved properly on Windows

New in Hawkscope 0.6.1 (Jun 9, 2009)

  • System wide shortcut key for Windows and Linux
  • Possibility to rename Quick Access items
  • Disabled plugins are no longer loaded in background
  • Hawkscope icon is no longer invisible on dark backgrounds
  • Added a Donate button in About window

New in Hawkscope 0.6.0 (Apr 5, 2009)

  • Plugins can no longer break the rest of Hawkscope menu
  • Native icon themes for supported operating systems
  • Unified HTTP authentication mechanism for version checks and plugins that use network connection
  • Implemented checking for plugin updates

New in Hawkscope 0.5.4 (Mar 31, 2009)

  • Gmail Checker plugin
  • Open With plugin now saves/loads custom application paths well in Windows
  • Open With plugin was failing to open files with spaces on Linux
  • Various enhancements of Execute plugin
  • Twitter plugin auto-recovery after network failures
  • Improved keyboard navigation
  • No more problems with opening huge folders

New in Hawkscope 0.5.0 (Feb 19, 2009)

  • Plugin System
  • Open With plugin
  • Friendlier GUI windows
  • Interactive error report
  • Help Window

New in Hawkscope 0.4.0 (Jan 29, 2009)

  • HTTP proxy authentication for update checks
  • Better handling of resources and smaller memory consumption
  • Added possibility to use operating system icons if they are available
  • Swing GUI implementation is now discontinued and removed
  • Added possibility to override configuration parameters with args line
  • Added possibility to blacklist folders and drives
  • Settings Window
  • Automatic check for updates
  • Added menu reload delay to improve performance
  • SWT About window is now a singleton
  • Created a workaround for SWT tray menu popup. It's not on top of tray now.

New in Hawkscope 0.3.0 (Jan 29, 2009)

  • Fixed some file opening problems
  • Solved tray icon ugliness
  • Improved menu usability
  • Hawkscope menu is now always on top

New in Hawkscope 0.2.0 (Oct 7, 2008)

  • Added quick access list to main menu, configurable via .hawkscope.properties. "user.home" folder read from system properties is added by default
  • Improved About dialog:
  • Added "Environment" field to About dialog Added icon to About dialog Added "Copy to Clipboard" button to About dialog for copying environmental report
  • Fixed configuration file writing Changed "unknown" icon
  • Removed lots of unneeded dependencies to get a much lighter executable Switched to maven assembly plugin version 2.1 due to file duplication bug
  • Fixed path resolving problems in Windows
  • Added ignore to Floppy drive by default
  • Improved error dialogs
  • Nice partition names where possible