Overview
It's been a while! This is the first hard fork release and official release of the taskbar groups application under this repo. This update introduces many features to taskbar groups, as detailed below. One of the most notable changes is now there is a background exe running to easily start/activate groups faster than before. It should make the whole application feel smoother than before.
Decided this not to be a v3 release, as most updates in this release are for bug fixes for the program. As always, if you encounter an issue please report it here!
Changelog
- Implement the custom selection of a hover color
- Application speed up
- Split up the application into a main application to create the groups and a secondary application to show the groups
- Portability mode
- Allow Taskbar Groups to be stored in a local folder and be moved on the go without using the local app folders
- Note: The background.exe will still use a local folder for consistency sake
- Better error handling (hopefully)
- Many more catches to stop errors from hard-crashing the application and give the reason
- Remove filter to only allow .exe and .lnk files to allow any extension by @chris-kwl (#15)
- Many bug fixes by @BanCrash (#22)
- Fixed a bug that caused the program to not start for the first time because the settings folder doesn't exist
- Fixed error “This program does not have access to this directory”
- Fixed bug that caused groups not to open due to jumplists being disabled, and thus it failed to write
- Fixed bug that caused Alt+Enter shortcut to open all programs not work
- Fixed a bug that caused that group opacity setting was not working
- Fixed a bug that caused that after exiting a group you won't be able to edit it again until the next restart of the client
- Icon and UI display fix on HDPi-enabled devices by @Fosternator (#30)
- Changed some slight instructions for pinning the first group on the home screen
- Updated application version data for the new forked GitHub
- Fixed non-ASCII shortcut names breaking the application
- Fixed folder image breaking
- Fixed icon caching for programs with the exact name
- Switched to MD5 hashes of the path for the naming scheme to ensure unique cached icon paths
- Fixed wrong icons for certain Microsoft applications
- Updated Updated TxFileManager to 1.5.0.1
- Implemented multiple methods to attempt to grab shortcut data
- New library added to the application
- Fallback would just be the shortcut icon with the arrow as it cannot be grabbed
- Fixed some Windows UWP apps having their icons be broken when added
- Allow changing of icons of the shortcuts manually (drag and drop supported)
Contributors
BanCrash, Fosternator, and chris-kwl