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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2004-02-12 23:09:18
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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 |
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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2004-01-21 17:09:50
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OS X Panther ONLY! A new release of Desktop Manager, mostly aimed at making the experience better for the user. Have fun. Downloads from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86417 * New plugin-based system -- almost all user-visible functionality is implemented by plugins. * New preferences pane -- more like System Preferences. * Active screen edges -- configurable, switching may be triggered by moving to screen edge. * Desktop-based pager -- An often reqested feature. A desktop pager compatible with CodeTek VirtualDesktop(TM) skins. * Desktop switch transitions -- Eight eye-candy switches for your enjoyment [EXPERIMENTAL]. * Preliminary sticky window support -- There is some code for sticky windows available. Currently it is used to make all panels sticky. This will be configurable in future [EXPERIMENTAL]. * Other non-user-visible bug fixes and optimisations. -- Rich |
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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2004-01-01 00:08:36
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As a new year's pressie, heres a new release. Enjoy. v0.4.2 -- 01/Jan/2004 * Fixed a nasty memory leak causing real memory usage to grow without bound. * Fixed a crash when attempting to use non-English letter hotkeys, not yet a poper fix. * Added a partial Spanish localisation from Julio Ernesto Arce Betanzos. * Added credit to Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch for routines to help install Dock patch. * Asks whether to collect windows onto a single desktop when quitting. * Add a hotkey (default Command-Ctrl-Left/Right) for moving windows to prev/next desktop. -- Rich |
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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2003-12-28 05:01:32
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After a long period of hacking of ther Christmas break I've released 0.4.1. This is the first release with support for moving windows between desktops. To do this (effectively controlling other process' windows) I've written a small patch to the Dock which gets installed when DM is run. This is EXPERIMENTAL (the worst that is likely to happen is the feature not working and the Dock crashing though) and I've released it to try and get some wider testing of the technique. To try out the new feature, either look at the 'Current Desktop' menu hanging off the status bar menu or press 'Command-Option-O' over a window -- you should hopefully get a nice suprise :). Released, as ever, via the SourceForge file release system. http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86417 ChangeLog ~~~~~~~~~ * Support moving windows between desktops (EXPERIMENTAL), * Restore the old 'Switch to desktop 'x'' hot-keys, * Stability fixes. -- Rich |
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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2003-12-23 20:06:08
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Since the <=0.3 releases of Desktop Manager were the first Mac app I ever wrote, the code was quite nasty. As a consequence I've re-written most of the app with what I've learnt and released it as version 0.4.0. This release features a better UI for setting hotkeys and should fix some of the rendering bugs people were having when using themes under OS X. The new source can be checked out of the SourceForge CVS as the 'DesktopManagerTNG' module or via the sourcecode disk image on the SourceForge file-release system. New packages available at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86417 Web-site update soon. -- Rich |
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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2003-11-24 11:03:25
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Hi, A number of people had noticed a sporadic crash bug in 0.3.3. This was due to some experimental code for changing desktop backgrounds. 0.3.4, a bug-fix only release, has been released and can be downloaded from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86417 Note that I hope this to be the last release based on the old code-base. I've been working on a re-write of Desktop Manager based on all I learnt writing versions up to 0.3.4 (it was my first /ever/ Mac application after all). The new code-base is almost feature complete and will be checked into Sourceforge CVS in the next few days. This is what version 0.4 will be based on and, hopefully, will have less bugs and less of a structure that makes any proper-coder weep :). -- Rich |
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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2003-11-20 15:00:18
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Yup, after an eternity of PhD and an infinity of rehersals for a show I was in, I finally managed to get a Panther-compatible release out of the door. All Panther-bugs should now have been fixed although, due to some pretty deep design changes to Panther, the solutions aren't as pretty as I hoped. I've also added some behind-the-scenes code to allow for sticky windows/moving windows between desktops, etc for version 0.4. Since I've moved entirely to Panther/Xcode now, future releases wont have been tested with Jaguar and may not work. Source-code is, as always, available from Sourceforge CVS and downloads are available from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=86417 Please stop sending me death threats unless I release a Panther version now :). -- Rich |
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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2003-09-09 12:13:10
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Announcing the next version of Desktop Manager, an important bug-fix release (see ChangeLog) if you want to customise your Hot Keys. I've also added my TODO Roadmap to the website so you can see what features I'm planning. Feel free to mail me with other feature suggestions if you think there is something very important missing. Downloads ========= Download the new version as a compressed disk image from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wsmanager/DesktopManager-0.3.2.dmg?download And the Source Code from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wsmanager/DesktopManager-src-0.3.2.tar.bz2?download (bzip2 compressed tar archive). ChangeLog ========= v0.3.2 -- 9/Sep/2003 * Removed old icon and replaced it with a (IMHO) prettier one. * Restored hot key preferences dialogue box that somehow lost itself between v0.3 and v0.3.1. -- Rich |
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From: Rich W. <rj...@he...> - 2003-09-04 12:47:10
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Announcing Desktop Manager v0.3.1. This is a very small release since I have been asked by many people to do it. It adds only one feature, top-most windows are focused on a desktop switch. Download a compressed disk image with the binaries from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wsmanager/DesktopManager-0.3.1.dmg?download Download a tar-ball of the current (fixed) sources from http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wsmanager/DesktopManager-src-0.3.1.tar.gz?download Desktop Manager is released under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence. See http://www.fsf.org/licenses/gpl.txt for details. -- Rich Wareham Impoverished PhD Student Signal Processing Lab, Cambridge University Engineering Department |
