Introducing TaskbarPlus!

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Little, simple but sooooo cute and useful fantastic little soft, guys!. :) Can you add hotkeys for open and close your Taskbar? :) Maybe some design themes in future? :)
Thank you, I appreciate that, thank you for the suggestions! We should be able to add a hotkey at some point... which key should we use? Design themes would be cool, but we would have to hire a professional designer because I am terrible with graphic design.
 

badboy

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Thank you, I appreciate that, thank you for the suggestions! We should be able to add a hotkey at some point... which key should we use? Design themes would be cool, but we would have to hire a professional designer because I am terrible with graphic design.
In general, the design is good, everything is fine. It's not the most important thing right now, maybe later you'll let users create the background image of the panel themselves :) Now I'm more interested in the hot buttons, as I said - it would be nice to be able to close and open them, and as the previous user said - it would be really useful to have an automatic one, so that this panel could be instead of the Windows panel.:)
 

rashmi

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Thank you for the suggestions! I have implemented a few of them so far and I can look at the rest soon. I removed the lines separating the taskbars and also made the Pin a permanent setting. We will probably have the color of the taskbar labels user adjustable soon, so you can make them any color you want. I love the expand-collapse idea you came up with, we just have to figure out how to implement that... it might take a little time. The computer taskbar cannot be deleted because it is the taskbar that has the controls at the top right. But what we might be able to do is to have a default taskbar, and that would contain all of the controls, and it would be the one that would also have an expand-collapse control... so we would be killing two birds with one stone, it would be super cool.

TaskbarPlus 0.46
SHA-256: 025949cf9edf15056d58e15b6a451813af1c8295fcb81cdd319f9416e74f119c
TB+ pinned survives the system reboot, but accessing TB+ settings unpins the taskbar.

You cannot add links to the default "Computer" taskbar?

I think TB+ should show a confirmation window for the taskbar deletion.
 
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rashmi

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The labels on the right are unnecessary; TB+ is better without them. Alternatively, a "make default" icon could appear on hover.
 
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Is it possible to not show TB+ in the Windows Taskbar when you have TB+ permanently pinned?
My great grandpa had TB, I think it was called "consumption" or "the great imitator" back in the day. Nasty stuff.

Anyhow. I love it! Perfect tool. So far no crashes. Would it be possible to show current cpu load and ram usage?
 
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If you guys are going to support hotkeys, please make them customizable. For example, in the future I would like to adapt the side mouse buttons to open/close the panel :)
We might add hotkeys... it would be super easy. But I am just thinking that most people will not use a hotkey, because right after you click a hotkey, you have to move the mouse to select the link or whatever. Now, we might add hotkeys that can be assigned to specific links... that might be cool. I like your side mouse button idea... but would that interfere with any other app? I am not sure either way. If it does not, I think it would be super cool. Thank you!
 
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TB+ pinned survives the system reboot, but accessing TB+ settings unpins the taskbar.

You cannot add links to the default "Computer" taskbar?

I think TB+ should show a confirmation window for the taskbar deletion.
I forgot the add links to Computer taskbar, but the others are fixed, thank you. The add links to Computer taskbar will be fixed in the next version.
 

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Is it possible to not show TB+ in the Windows Taskbar when you have TB+ permanently pinned?
Possibly... if anything, we might have a tray icon or something. I see what you mean though, so we just need to figure out what is best.
 

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The labels on the right are unnecessary; TB+ is better without them. Alternatively, a "make default" icon could appear on hover.
You can now set the label to the color of the taskbar, so it should hide the label, although I have not tested that yet. The Default toolbar is now the one at the top, so we really would not need a make default option. I think you will see what I mean.
 

badboy

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Yeah, I found that a while back and thought it was interesting, so I included it as a sample link. If anyone else has any ideas for sample links, please let me know!
You can add a link to this thread on the forum, of course, and to your other products, as well as links to scanners to check your PC for viruses. :)
 

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My great grandpa had TB, I think it was called "consumption" or "the great imitator" back in the day. Nasty stuff.

Anyhow. I love it! Perfect tool. So far no crashes. Would it be possible to show current cpu load and ram usage?
That is funny that you mentioned that. I have been coughing and sneezing really bad for over a month, constantly. But it was not bad enough to go to the doctor. Then a couple of weeks ago there were reports of TB in my area, so I bet that is what I had. I am almost 100% now though.

Thank you, I appreciate that! Yes, that is on my to do list, thank you for the suggestion!
 
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Hey guys!

Here is the latest version of TB+. There were tons of changes and your old settings should work great, but if they are acting a little goofy, it might be a good idea to Reset Defaults. I do not believe we will be making this big of changes moving forward, so hopefully this is the last time you might have to reset your settings.

Here is what has changed…

The Computer taskbar is now just like all of the others, so you can move and delete it if you want. I just noticed that adding a link to the Computer taskbar is not quite working yet, but it will be in the next version.

You can now right click on the Taskbar label to change the color. If you prefer not having a label, you can just set the label color to the taskbar color.

There is now an expanding taskbar with the new option in Settings… “Show all taskbars”. Just click that and set the number to however many taskbars you want to initially show. Then when you left click on any of the taskbars, they will expand. We can have an expand icon somewhere, but I really like the way it is now, but let me know what you guys think.

There is now a prompt when the user tries to delete a taskbar.

The Pin button is fixed when Settings is closed.

The move taskbar arrows should be working even better now.

Tons of other small optimizations.

TaskbarPlus 0.50
SHA-256: a869096b68e473ace63583109a2f5558844e5b9931e2acfa375c3eb6971403e5


Thank you guys!
 

rashmi

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The Computer taskbar is now just like all of the others, so you can move and delete it if you want. I just noticed that adding a link to the Computer taskbar is not quite working yet, but it will be in the next version.
The "Computer" taskbar's context menu is missing the "Delete Taskbar" entry.

You can now right click on the Taskbar label to change the color. If you prefer not having a label, you can just set the label color to the taskbar color.
Adjusting the taskbar color reflects in the label color settings, but the color of the label doesn't change. Adjusting the label color first works. Settings could include a show/hide label toggle. Should I propose a setting to make all taskbars the same color?

There is now an expanding taskbar with the new option in Settings… “Show all taskbars”. Just click that and set the number to however many taskbars you want to initially show. Then when you left click on any of the taskbars, they will expand. We can have an expand icon somewhere, but I really like the way it is now, but let me know what you guys think.
Left-clicking a taskbar should also collapse TB+ to the default view.

An "Always on top" setting would be helpful.
 
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