[Wsmanager-announce] Desktop Manager 0.5.1 released -- mops up some loose ends.

[Rich W. <rj...@he...>]

Hello again everyone,

DM 0.5.1 has been/will be released and the change log is below. This is a mop-up
release to try to file down some of the rough edges from 0.5.0 and clear my patch
backlog. There are a fair few bug-fixes and small usability improvements including
some crash-fixes. I will be concentrating on multiple-monitor support for 0.5.2 [ SO
STOP E-MAILING PLEASE! :) ].

More importantly the icons for Desktop Manager suck IMHO. I am no graphic designer.
If any kind soul feels they could do better, please drop me an e-mail. Ideally I'd
like something as pretty as the icons on the new Mozilla FireFox browser. Eternal
fame in the About Box shall be thine reward.

ChangeLog

* Can now optionally display current desktop's name on desktop.
* Mouse pointer warping is configurable.
* Mouse pointer can not optionally move to centre of screen on
  desktop switch.
* Weird investion bug on mouse pointer when switching via Active Edges fixed.
* Desktop pager can auto-hide (note there are still one or two
  rendering bugs with this).
* Can also open URLs with Command-Option-R.
* Some memory-usage optimisations, still the possiblitiy of memory-leaks
  in crusty old code, an audit of this code will be needed soon.
* Preferences are sync-ed to disk immediately on a change -- this
  protects preferences against crashes, etc.
* Hot-key implementation now uses Keyboard Layout Services API -- this
  means that foreign keyboards should have better support (I hope).
* Skin can be reset to default via preferences dialogue.
* Icon display in Desktop Pager is optional.
* Optionally display desktop name in Desktop Pager.
* Random desktop transition support.
* Crash related to adding/removing desktops when status bar pager
  displayed is now fixed (developer whacks himself with big book of
  Objective-C memory management clue). [ Kevin Ballard <kevin --at--
  wpi.edu.remove> ]

Download

Binary DMG and source tar-ball available from Sourceforge as always.

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86417

--
Rich