What's new in Labrys 1.0.12
May 21, 2019
- Implemented support for tracking of "Show accent color on the following surfaces - Start, taskbar and action center" option from Windows settings when "Use Windows theme colors" Labrys option is enabled.
- Implemented better support for tracking of Windows accent color and its shades when "Use Windows theme colors" Labrys option is enabled.
- Known Labrys color themes are bundled with the installer and should be navigatable by default from color theme Import dialog.
- Added a separate entry for normal Сontrol panel to default jumplist.
- Implemented support for light theme icons of modern apps.
- Implemented some workarounds for empty jumplists.
- Fixed loading of icons of jumplist entries of some of modern apps (Edge, Calculator).
- Fixed mouse wheel scroll settings not being tracked properly.
New in Labrys 1.0.11 (Oct 8, 2018)
- Reworked keyboard navigation a bit. Using Up and Down key to select items in Apps List does not cause jumplist to be loaded anymore (avoiding lag on slower PCs). Left and Right arrows can now be used to expand / collapse folders and to jump between Apps List and Jump List.
- Items highlighted with mouse cursor and selected with keyboard now always have appropriate visual representation (this may require tunning of existing color themes).
- Implemented support for executing items of "task" type from jumplists of modern apps (for example "New Window" of MS Edge).
- Fixed crash when jumplist item content menu is opened after jumplist was changed to empty jumplist by hovering over different item in Apps list.
- Fixed situation when successful fix of corrupted jumplist was treated as a failure.
- Fixed incorrect handling of pointer input after context menu is dismissed and at some other situations sometimes causing selection to jump.
- Fixed some minor overdraw problems.
New in Labrys 1.0.11 (Oct 8, 2018)
- - Reworked keyboard navigation a bit. Using Up and Down key to select items in Apps List does not cause jumplist to be loaded anymore (avoiding lag on slower PCs). Left and Right arrows can now be used to expand / collapse folders and to jump between Apps List and Jump List.
- - Items highlighted with mouse cursor and selected with keyboard now always have appropriate visual representation (this may require tunning of existing color themes).
- - Implemented support for executing items of "task" type from jumplists of modern apps (for example "New Window" of MS Edge).
- - Fixed crash when jumplist item content menu is opened after jumplist was changed to empty jumplist by hovering over different item in Apps list.
- - Fixed situation when successful fix of corrupted jumplist was treated as a failure.
- - Fixed incorrect handling of pointer input after context menu is dismissed and at some other situations sometimes causing selection to jump.
- - Fixed some minor overdraw problems.
New in Labrys 1.0.10 (May 1, 2018)
- Fixed Cleartype smoothing always applied for fonts regardless of system font smoothing settings.
- Fixed first executed command history item not executed when Enter key is pressed while Run Menu mode is active and no command is typed.
- Fixed some random bugs caused by bogus Visual c++ 15.6 compiler.
New in Labrys 1.0.9 (Apr 16, 2018)
- Disabled option "Handle moden apps" on Windows 7 since modern apps do not exist on that platform.
- Fixed some random bugs caused by bogus Visual c++ 15.5 compiler, most importantly glitched window resizing, missing default jumplist items and (minor) memory leaks after reloading shortcuts.
- Fixed Windows Start button hover effect being suppressed on Windows 7 and Windows 10. Now it is only suppressed on Windows 8.
- Fixed opened About and Settings dialog sometimes preventing Labrys from exiting.
New in Labrys 1.0.6 (Dec 21, 2016)
- Added item to open Windows settings to default jumplist.
- Fixed mouse wheel settings not being respected and scrolling always being performed by one line.
- Fixed issues with launched apps not getting into foreground sometimes.
- Fixed wrong border color being used for Settings dialog buttons.
- Fixed flicker when resizing Settings dialog window.
- Fixed keyboard focus jumping on first checkbox in Settings dialog after clicking on empty window space.
- Switched to build with Visual Studio 2015 so installer now includes Visual C++ 2015 redistributable package.
New in Labrys 1.0.5 (May 24, 2016)
- Added file path completion in Сommand textbox with Ctrl + Space
- key combination.
- Added support for recent jumplist format changes on Windows 10.
- Fixed environment variables not being substituted correctly if length of the
- resulting string remains the same as original.
- Fixed closing Settings dialog window applies new settings instead of canceling
- changes.
New in Labrys 1.0.4 (Jan 26, 2016)
- Added support for invoking regular Start menu via corresponding default jumplist item or F4 key
- Semitransparent pin icon for not selected jumplist items
- Fixed incorrect sorting of shortcuts which captions start with special symbols
- Fixed possible crash when Modern App handling is enabled
- Fixed problems with loading certain Modern App icons
- Fixed scaling artifacts present on some Modern App icons
- Fixed problems with Windows 7 integration
New in Labrys 1.0.3 (Jan 26, 2016)
- Increased size of jumplist arrow in Apps list
- Added F2 key to edit color / executor description / filter / path items in settings
- Fixed crash after trying to pin non-pinnable jumplist item using keyboard
- Fixed shield icon covering shortcut caption and description when item is being preliminary selected and execution with elevated privileges mode is enabled
- Fixed window size issues and redraw artifacts when screen orientation changes when Labrys window is displayed
- Fixed pressing Enter in Settings dialog causing Cancel button to be pressed instead of OK button
- Fixed keyboard focus not returning to the Colors list window after Color peeking dialog is closed
- Fixed keyboard focus not returning to the Command executors list window after Command executor description editing dialog is closed
- Fixed Command executor description editing dialog being displayed in non-modal manner
- Fixed Command executor description editing dialog being displayed with its own button on the taskbar
New in Labrys 1.0.2 (Jan 26, 2016)
- Color Theme format changed to include additional colors.
- Removed useless text box cue.
- Fixed window size issues when opening Labrys on secondary monitors.
- Fixed selection sometimes jumping between controls.
New in Labrys 1.0.1 (Jan 26, 2016)
- Added proper support for Windows 10, including 1511 update
- Added on-demand loading of jumplists
- Added support for removing of jumplist items
- Added support for separators in jumplists
- Added support for removing of entries from executed commands history
- Added context menus for appropriate scenarios
- Added support for adjusting color theme in settings
- Added support for selecting folders containing app shortcuts in settings
- Added support for selecting folders containing places shortcuts in settings
- Added support for reordering of command executors by dragging in settings
- Changed keyboard combination for copying of selected command into edit window to Ctrl + Space
- Changed keyboard combination for shortcuts reloading to F5
- Changed keyboard combination for settings opening to F12
- Removed monitoring of shortcut changes as it wasn't working for Modern Apps
- Fixed the lack of refresh of the jumplists when they are modified by some external application in certain scenarios
- Fixed problems with drawing of Alphabetical index
- Fixed broken first item in Alphabetical index
- Fixed broken scrolling of long command executors index
- Fixed problems with invoking of Labrys menu by pressing Start button on secondary monitors
- Fixed problems with keyboard focus switching after certain actions
New in Labrys 0.9.3 (Jan 26, 2016)
- Added support for Windows 10
- Added monitoring of shortcut changes
- Fixed incorrect text padding scaling with DPI
- Fixed problems with loading of task jumplist items icons
- Fixed problems with execution of commands containing only one symbol or some other special symbol combinations
New in Labrys 0.9.2 (Jul 21, 2015)
- New version of Labrys is focused on stability improvements.
- It fixes a lot of minor bugs:
- Added a button to browse executable file path in command executor description editing dialog.
- Added a button to browse working directory path in command executor description editing dialog.
- Improved shortcuts folders folding and duplicates removing algorithm.
- Fixed "Short description" field not receiving focus after command executor description editing dialog is opened.
- Fixed edit fields being not scrollable horizontally in command executor description editing dialog.
- Fixed "Show icon" checkbox not receiving focus after Settings dialog is opened.
- Fixed clicking with mouse at Settings dialog client area not restoring focus (and scrolling with mouse wheel).
- Fixed "Delete selected shortcut filter" button in Settings dialog being enabled even if no filter is selected.
- Fixed "Delete selected command executor" button in Settings dialog being enabled even if no executor is selected.
- Fixed duplicated and dummy items sometimes appearing in appslist search results.
- Fixed too many search results being displayed to fit into appslist.
- Fixed some jumplist categories appearing without localized names.
- Fixed some jumplist items failing to execute after (un)pinning them.
- Fixed flicker appearing sometimes just after (un)pinning jumplist items.
- Fixed minor memory leaks occurring during jumplists processing.
- Fixed potential infinite loop during initialization.
New in Labrys 0.9.1 (May 6, 2015)
- New:
- Added support for listing and launching modern (metro)
- applications
- Added an option to disable handling of modern applications
- Added support for scrolling over alphabetical groups with mouse wheel when cursor hovers over alphabetical index
- Added support for switching between command executors with mouse wheel when Labrys is displaying Run menu
- Bugfixes:
- Fixed jumplist of the activated item is not being shown after appslist view acquires keyboard focus.
- Fixed broken modification and reloading for certain kinds of jumplists.
- Fixed several issues regarding highlighted area of the alphabetical index.
- Fixed broken Lock workstation option in power menu.
- Fixed Reboot option in power menu causing incomplete reboot.
New in Labrys 0.8.4 (Mar 13, 2015)
- Added "shift to the right" gesture to copy selected shortcut target and arguments or an executed command from history into command textbox.
- Added Ctrl+C combination to copy selected shortcut target and arguments or an executed command from history into command textbox.
- Added support for using Up and Down keys to switch between items from history of executed commands when command textbox has focus.
- Added memorization of the last used command executor in Run menu mode.
- Added memorization of the last failed command.
- Improved search speed.
- Fixed command being added to history with preprocessing applied.
- Fixed drawing of the empty shortcut descriptions.
- Fixed maximum capacity of the history being 1000 instead of 10000.
- Fixed history of commands executed with custom executors not being loaded at startup.
New in Labrys 0.8.3 (Feb 9, 2015)
- Added "Compact" display mode which makes Labrys show appslist and executed commands history items using small icon and small font without second line.
- Added an option to exclude folders from search results.
- Added various tweaks to reduce memory consumption.
- If Labrys fails to launch an application Labrys will emit an "error" beep sound.
- If Labrys fails to launch an application with elevated privileges Labrys will not try to launch it without elevated privileges.
- Small font size increased to match usual system font size.
- Small menu item height increased to match usual system menu item height.
- Command executors list in settings dialog now displays proper columns.
- Fixed missing 256x256 main icon.
- Fixed broken suppression of the Start button hot corner which caused Metro Start menu sometimes appear instead of the Labrys Start menu after click on the Start button.
- Fixed pressing or releasing an Alt key while performing "shift to the left" gesture does not change execution elevation level.
- Fixed incorrect hittesting of the right border of the command executor history items.
- Fixed item caption and description text boundary being adjusted when performing "shift to the left" gesture even after execution elevation icon reached it's leftmost position.
- Fixed "Extract content from folders with single item" option being ignored and "Show icons" option value being used instead when loading shortcuts.
- Fixed long descriptions of the shortcuts not being retrieved correctly.
- Fixed shortcuts filters not being applied to shortcut target paths.
- Fixed glitches happening when the Taskbar is located on the top or on the left.
- Fixed glitch in the index sometimes happening when dragging long appslist down.
- Fixed some typos.