Well, the bug fixes I made in the last release left me feeling empowered again, so I've followed up with a couple more features and some more bug fixes:
- Added new MATCH CREATE window matching configuration option, which allows actions to be taken when windows are created. For example, you can cause all VMWare windows to start on a given workspace, or have your mp3 player automatically stick to all workspaces when it starts up.
- Fixed a slit layout calculation bug.
- Avoid blocking the flasher when the flashing app (eg: gaim 2.0 beta) hangs itself
- Balloon tips now display the body of the balloon text, instead of the tooltip from the tray area, and will rise all the way to the top of the z-order.
- Improved detection of deleted tray tooltips, so that balloon tips are not wiped out at the wrong time.
- When a window was made sticky, it would remain in the minimized state on the inactive workspaces. This has now been corrected.
- Fixed a string termination bug in the PuTTY plugin for sessions that have spaces in their names.
- Environmental variables are now expanded when processing the MergeDirs directive in the .evdm file
Hi Wez,
I am curious about your EvilDesk and heard some good things about it.
Unfortunately, I also heard that non English versions of XP don't like EvilDesk so much and installing EvilDesk on these OS's causes problems.
Will EvilDesk support non English XP versions?
I'm reasonably sure that it will work. You might prefer to maintain your own Dutch version of the .evdm file (unless you're happy with the britishisms in my default config).
My suggestion to anyone that is unsure whether it will work is to install the MSI file, then create a new dummy user account; login as that user and then change the shell to evildesk. Give it a whirl, and if it seems to work out, you can adopt it for your main user account.
If it doesn't work out, let me know, and I'll see about fixing it (you might need to wait a little while for a fix though, depending on the pace of my life).
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Looks promising, Wez, thanx for the effort! Question #1: Many of us already have a shell switcher/manager. Don't u think evildesk should be in exe format, without registry tweaking? Question #2: Is it skinnable? Thanx and keep up the good work!
So it should be compatible with shell managers. However, the installation assumes that you don't have a shell manager already.
My suggestion is to install evildesk, then install the shell manager; just tell the shell manager to run "wezdesk.exe /runstartup".
As for skinning, I want to avoid a full blown skinning engine (see http://www.livejournal.com/users/jwz/123070.html?thread=521918#t521918). However, my current development version allows you to specify a background image for the task switcher and slits, along with some other eyecandy goodies (carefully balanced with low resource consumption; that's my main goal)
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