Softpedia >Windows >Tweak >System Tweak >TranslucentTB >  Changelog

TranslucentTB Changelog

What's new in TranslucentTB 2024.1

Mar 4, 2024
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix portable builds not working if the TranslucentTB temporary directory didn't exist.
  • Fix erroneous "Couldn't configure TAP to restore taskbar appearance once TranslucentTB dies." message in the log.
  • Make Start opened, Search opened and Task View opened states work on newer builds of Windows 11.
  • Fix crashes with GlazeWM and the Magnifier app.
  • Increase the timeout for the XAML TAP to hopefully reduce the amount of "The wait operation timed out" and "Element not found" messages being seen.
  • Various improvements/changes:
  • Support for Ukrainian locale.
  • Improvements to German and Chinese translations.
  • This releases uses a new GUID for the tray icon, because the ACS certificate subject is different than the previous certificate. Due to this, your preferences related to the tray icon will be reset.
  • Remove the ttb: protocol, as it was an experiment for something that didn't end up working.

New in TranslucentTB 2023.2 (Nov 28, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix the taskbar not being assigned the right monitor when it was set to auto-hide and two monitors where stacked on top of each other
  • Copy ExplorerTAP DLL to %TEMP% in portable mode to allow ejection of a USB key once TranslucentTB is exited.
  • Fix the app crashing if it was started before Explorer
  • Retry injecting the TAP in case of failures, hopefully should reduce the amount of errors being seen
  • Various improvements/changes:
  • Improved several translations
  • Add a ttb: protocol that starts the app
  • Add inactive window state rule

New in TranslucentTB 2023.1 (Jul 10, 2023)

  • Bug fixes:
  • Support the Windows 11 Moment 2 taskbar
  • Fix newly created windows thinking they where the active window when this wasn't the case
  • Fix hide tray being hit twice not showing the dialog anymore
  • Various improvements/changes
  • New supported languages:
  • German
  • Spanish (United States)
  • Turkish
  • Indonesian
  • Russian (Russia)
  • Improved Simplified Chinese translation
  • Localize more user-facing strings
  • Add hidden configuration options to override the language used by TranslucentTB
  • Add hidden configuration options to disable the new XAML context menu
  • Update WinUI to 2.8.4
  • Add a tooltip when the titlebar text overflows in windows

New in TranslucentTB 2022.1 (Dec 1, 2022)

  • New features:
  • Localization support
  • TranslucentTB can now be localized in different languages. Take a look at the contributor's guide if you want to submit your own translation! Currently supported languages are:
  • Chinese (Simplified)
  • Chinese (Traditional)
  • Japanese
  • English (United States)
  • Portable mode
  • On Windows 11, TranslucentTB can now run without needing to be installed. Download the TranslucentTB-portable-x64.zip file below to get started.
  • Rules
  • Exposed in the configuration file only, rules allow you to customize the taskbar's appearance in a per-app manner: depending on the highest Z-order maximized window or the currently active window.
  • Remove the taskbar line/border
  • On Windows 11, you can now remove the taskbar line or border depending on which state is active.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Fix battery saver mode being active despite the user having disabled it.
  • Made some changes that should significantly help with TranslucentTB not working after the computer resumes from sleep or when a display is unplugged or plugged in.
  • Fix poor tray icon contrast in high contrast modes like "Desert".
  • Hide empty document errors when the configuration file is empty.
  • Fix tray icon turning blurry when the system DPI changes.
  • Fix search opened and Start opened states on Windows 11.
  • Fix an issue where TranslucentTB's settings could end up being wiped when shutting down the computer.
  • Fix TranslucentTB crashing if you uninstall it while the welcome dialog is open.
  • Various improvements/changes:
  • Allow blur to be picked again on Windows 11 RTM when KB5006746 is installed.
  • Remove blur on Windows 11 SV2. This feature has been removed from the OS by Microsoft. It's likely not coming back.
  • When blur is not available on the user's system, automatically upgrade them to acrylic.
  • Enable XAML context menu on Windows 10 build 19041-19045 if KB5007253 is installed.
  • Update WinUI to 2.8.
  • Use the new Segoe UI Variable font on Windows 11 for XAML UI elements.
  • Various code cleanups and modernization.

New in TranslucentTB 2021.5 (Jan 30, 2022)

  • Add battery saver state, disabled by default
  • Fix error message being missing in logs when US english locale is missing
  • Fix acrylic being broken on Windows 11
  • Fix crash when a second instance is launched
  • Restore blur option on Windows 11 build 22449 and higher
  • Update to stable release of WinUI 2.7, reducing download size tenfold.

New in TranslucentTB 2021.5.0.0 MS Store (Oct 8, 2021)

  • Add battery saver state, disabled by default
  • Fix error message being missing in logs when US english locale is missing
  • Fix acrylic being broken on Windows 11
  • Fix crash when a second instance is launched
  • Restore blur option on Windows 11 build 22449 and higher
  • Update to stable release of WinUI 2.7, reducing download size tenfold.

New in TranslucentTB 9.0.0.0 (Dec 29, 2020)

  • Fix cortana detection in newer Windows builds.

New in TranslucentTB 2020.2 (Jul 21, 2020)

  • Fix cortana detection in newer windows builds

New in TranslucentTB 2020.1 (Feb 9, 2020)

  • This addresses issue #265.

New in TranslucentTB 2019.2 (Jul 29, 2019)

  • This addresses issue #258.

New in TranslucentTB 2019.1 (Jul 8, 2019)

  • This addresses the following issues:
  • #192
  • #199: if hardware isn't capable of providing DirectX 11 support, WARP will be used.
  • #209: temporary workaround until next version, in the context menu click on Advanced > Refresh taskbar handles.
  • #228 Silent error at first run about checking if a file exists.

New in TranslucentTB 2018.2 (Aug 29, 2018)

  • Fixes:
  • A couple of CPicker crashes
  • Task Manager and general slowdowns while TranslucentTB is open
  • Settings aren't being saved on shutdown
  • Softkills (taskkill /im TranslucentTB.exe) now works
  • Changes:
  • Added save settings context menu entry

New in TranslucentTB 2018.1 (Aug 24, 2018)

  • Major changes:
  • Command line arguments have been removed, the config file and dynamic windows blacklist now resides in %AppData%TranslucentTB (and are backwards compatible with V3) and pretty much everything is configurable via the tray icon context menu.
  • Fixed an issue where the config wouldn't load at startup.
  • New integrated color picker.
  • Added Fluent taskbar mode.
  • Fixed bug where UWP apps would make dynamic windows get "stuck" in the maximized state.
  • New dynamic modes: dynamic Timeline and dynamic Cortana.
  • Improved reliability of dynamic Start.
  • Each dynamic state has now its own color and effect customization instead of being hard-coded to a mode.
  • This release and the new color picker are per-monitor high DPI awareThe context menu shouldn't look tiny anymore on high DPI monitors.
  • We switched from an event to a mutex for single-instance detectionThis also allows the installer to detect when TranslucentTB is runningWhen upgrading, it is required to close the older version before as it will cause a invalid handle error while trying to open the new versionThis is because events and mutexes share the same namespace in the kernel object manager (as such a mutex cannot have the same name than an event, because they would conflict), and it's not possible to open an event as if it was a mutex.
  • Added error handling and logging everywhere.

New in TranslucentTB 2017.3 Pre (Jun 6, 2017)

  • After a long hiatus, we have released a new version. This version comes with several new features:
  • Dynamic Start (different states when start is open/closed)
  • Improved Virtual Desktop support
  • Dynamic Windows (different states when a Window is maximized or desktop is shown, this is in Preview)
  • More tray options
  • Optional tray
  • Start with Windows (tray and command line option)
  • Elegant exiting

New in TranslucentTB 2017.2 Pre (Jan 24, 2017)

  • This version adds several new features:
  • multi monitor support
  • command line options
  • clear taskbar option
  • colorful taskbar option
  • unicode support.
  • These changes keep RAM usage under 2MB in my tests, and CPU usage still near 0%. I also did a battery test and found no significant change in runtime with the program running and without.
  • Also, thanks to eveyone who contributed, I cannot thank you enough!
  • Please also note that you must open start to reset the taskbar if you exit.

New in TranslucentTB 2017.1 Pre (Jan 24, 2017)

  • This is actually not the first version, It uses a clear taskbar instead of the older translucent one.