Fixed a nasty bug i’ve introduced in 0.8 with drag and drop (if you try it on recent documents or the other lists it destroys the favourite list, LOL :P), but most important i’ve added a german translation made by Jannick Kuhr (thanks:D).
Grab it from the usual place.
As I said in the previous post I consider Tasty Menu more or less complete respect the goals I had in mind. I probably will do some other releases tweaking here and there.
Probably this will be a better drag and drop support (from the menu to the desktop and from the second/third column to the first), fixing the ton of bugs I surely have introduced right now, maybe I will add a way to clear most used and recent used apps, some more configurability and who knows, to make the search functionality a little bit less painfully slow (/me begins to doubt that I will achieve to do that :P).
I still haven’t decided if there will be a kde4 port, partly because the spare time is always decreasing and mainly because Tasty Menu is very deeply tied to the qt3/kde3 technology. The listview api has totally changed (yeah, i know there is the qt3 support module but it’s so uncool:P)and of course the whole kicker thing is gonna being killed, and the (plasma?) replacement is in the early beginning. So it would be more a total rewrite than a port, so I don’t know if it will be worth the effort.
As I said I haven’t decided yet, so don’t desperate, there is still a little door open 😀
In the next few months I will be totally drown in courses exams and various university stuff, so probably there won’t be much releases of both Tasty Menu and Polyester.
Now I plan to make some more plain bugfix releases for both things (especially Polyester that has been negleted for a long time) and when (or if :P) I will have some more time there probably will be a Tasty Menu 1.0 release and maybe I will start the hyper-procrastinated qt4 port of polyester (and I ffear this also will be a very long work with more rewritting from scratch that I would like to)
This update brings a big bunch of new features, including an initial rudimentary drag and drop support that i’ve procrastinated since version 0 :), probably i will do only few minor updates in the future (little explanation in the next post).
You can download it from the usual place.
The somewhat bigger changelog than usual:
-Favourite applications list can be rearranged via drag and drop
-new installed programs notification should be more reliable (some inspiration from Kickoff :P)
-it finds also programs installed by other users
-old programs shouldn’t be no more erroneusly listed
-updated russian and italian translations
-when there is only one search result, pressing enter executes it (and the search terms are cleared)
-added button to clear the recent documents list
-application descriptions can be removed also from the left column
-easier to start a program with a single mouse click when the tree is collapsed
-groups with only one item can be configured to be shown
-items can be ordered alphabetically (with applications after the groups)
-better managing of the button size (especially within a vertical panel) and when the menu text is disabled the button is exactly square
-the button icon is highlighted on mouse over according to the global settings
-in the search results the tree is always open
A little useless screencast of Tasty Menu usage just for polluting Youtube even more 🙂
I’ve uploaded a little bugfix release of Tasty Menu.
it fixes three minor glitches and most important it has a Russian translation by Yurkovsky Andrey, thanks dude 🙂
Just released Tasty Menu 0.7, this time there are also some minor cosmetic changes, I hope this time will compile out of the box at the first try 😛
Grab it if you dare 🙂
Little changelog as usual:
-configurable button text label
-configurable menu button pixmap
-item descriptions can be turned off
-optional “save session” entry under the user button
-configurable popup text
-the button no longer appears on mouse over, instead the background becomes lighter on mouse over and darker on mouse press
-when the user clicks on an empty area the last item is no longer activated
-Italian translation
I’m working around some improvements of Tasty menu for the 0.7 version, along with some bugfixes you can expect a little bit more configurable look and feel, so you could obtain something like this (just for fun :P):
Yeah, there is still no true theme support, and probably there won’t be, because one of the most important points of Tasty menu always was being consistent with the rest of the environment, i always found skinned apps a little bit out of place, but it’s a matter of taste 🙂
Yes, it’s still alive, recently I just had ZERO time to take care of it, and I’m not going to have more anytime soon 🙂
Btw, the today’s new version has just some bugfix of most annoying things and a micro new feature.
Grab it when it’s still hot 🙂
The mandatory changelog:
-fixed menu placement when it’s on the right side of the screen
-now both the recent applications list and the most used list works
-some cosmetic improvements in configuration dialog
-don’t reopen the current submenu when the user clicks again on an already open category
-now clicking on categories of right column expandes/collapses them
-“always collapsed categories” option available also if “show tree expanders” is off
-fixed compilation issues with autoconf >= 2.60
Or at least I wish I could say that 😛
By the way, now it should be a little bit more stable.
The obligatory changelog:
-command to clear the recently installed applications list
-Application categories cand be made collapsable and appear collapsed by default
-left mouse button menu on menuitems that lets to add/remove bookmarks and edit the proper submenu with kmenuedit
-the add bookmark icons should work better
-Fixed a bug that prevented svg-only icon themes to display correctly
-Added a very basic Strigi integration
-When resizing the menu in window mode the size of the three columns are updated correcly
-Fixed a crash when a no longer existent app is in more used / recently used list
-Fixed another probable cause of crash
And the even more obligatory download link 🙂
Updated today with a bunch of enhancements:
0.5:
-(Hopefully) fixed some other crashes
-the big tooltip is enabled only when also the other kicker’s big tooltip are enabled too
-the menu can be made a normal window (the upper right arrow toolbutton)
-the highlighted item in the middle column is always the currently open category
-busy mouse cursor when searching
-corrected a bug that prevented to use the left column after a search in ceratin cases
-added a “Configure global shortcuts…” command in the LMB menu
-user button and “switch user” buttons merged in one button
-added a “Run program…” button
-open submenus on timeout also when the mouse button is not pressed, so now when the mouse button is down the delay is 250ms when is not pressed 1 sec
-clear button on the right: it is dramatically nicer looking now 🙂
Download it when is still hot 🙂