What's new in RoundedTB R3.1 Stable
Nov 15, 2021
- Release 3.1 improves upon Release 3 by addressing some of the more egregious bugs that snuck their way in. There are also some performance enhancements as I went through and refactored everything. Seriously, RoundedTB started off as a tiny proof-of-concept months ago and I just sorta piled a load of code on top of it, so it certainly needed a tidy up. Don't worry though, there's a couple of new things to try out in this version too!
- New features:
- The option to have the taskbar "fill" when a window is maximised (or when alt+tab or the Task Switcher is invoked if you're on Windows 11)
- The ability to summon the app's settings pane by re-opening it from Start
- The option to have the tray show only when you're hovering over it
- Automatic detection for when the taskbar "overflows" in dynamic mode, and switching back to basic mode as a result
New in RoundedTB R3.1 Preview (Nov 13, 2021)
- R3.1 is apparently getting a bunch of features much to my surprise (I got a bit carried away, sorry!) This should be the final preview build before its released.
- What's new:
- Many bugs squished during a complete refactor of a lot of the code (better performance, fewer random resizes etc.)
- Starting RoundedTB with a centred taskbar for the first time should no longer lead to accidental left-alignment (delete %localappdata%/rtb.json to test)
- Running this build of RoundedTB whilst its already running should now open the app settings
- New option to fill taskbar when a window is maximised
- New option to fill taskbar when alt+tab or Task Switcher is in use (Win11 only)
- New option to show tray only when the mouse hovers over it
- Dynamic mode will now automatically disable if the taskbar overflows with too many icons (portrait displays etc.)
- Tray icon should now always respect system theme on-the-fly
- Probably some new bugs.
- Notable known issue:
- Disabling running on startup doesn't work properly. Do it from Task Manager or Settings for now. Will be fixed for release
New in RoundedTB R3 Stable (Nov 13, 2021)
- New features:
- Dynamic mode for Windows 11, providing a dock-like segmented taskbar!
- Split mode, a simplified version of dynamic mode for Windows 10!
- Independent margin controls!
- Better support for TranslucentTB (version 2021.5 and above)!
- An updated icon (including icons for the Development and Canary builds)!
- A new help/about window!
- Debug logging!
- Bug fixes!
- More bugs!
- Known issues:
- Auto-hiding is still incredibly experimental and may lead to a lot of flickering, especially with TranslucentTB compatibility or dynamic/split mode enabled.
- Rounded corners are not antialiased due to a Windows limitation.
- Dynamic mode/split mode only work correctly when the taskbar is horizontal at the top/bottom of the screen.
- Split mode on Windows 10 only supports the main taskbar, secondary taskbars will not be split.
- When using dynamic mode, the taskbar may occasionally become too large, too small or not update. This can usually be fixed by moving a window to or from that monitor or briefly changing the taskbar alignment.
- Compatibility with taskbar mods outside of TranslucentTB version 2021.5 is not currently guaranteed.
New in RoundedTB 2.2 (Sep 23, 2021)
- Supports running as UWP
- New icon!!
- Theme-responsive tray icon
- Bees
- Early support for recovering from Explorer crashing
- Early support for adding/removing monitors
- Early support for auto-hiding taskbar
- Bug fixes
- No longer packaged as a single executable (should help mitigate false AV detections)