Hi Keith,

just noticed there's already the 3.5.0. BETA

This is a follow-up to my former 3.4.0 feedback thread:
http://www.displayfusion.com/Discussions/View/several-bugs-in-3-4-0-with-windows-vista/?ID=e1ffaf1e-f388-4705-b218-f1f3d9c1468a

1. The width of the Vista taskbar preview popup has become smaller. It worked fine in 3.4.1. and matched that of Vista, but now it's too small (see left):


2. The start button of the DF taskbar (right) looks not the same like the Vista one (left). I didn't notice that before b/c of a dark wallpaper. Is that fixable?


3. The new try feature looks fine, however I notices that animated tray icons like the one from avast! are not fluid, is this a limitation of the implementation or can it be optimized?

4. Do you have plans to also mirror the Vista system icons like Volume, Network and Battery?


5. There was a left-over which you were working on regarding the too small space between minimized windows and other elements of the taskbar like the clock, is there any update on this?

6. Any update on the flashing bugs in Vista?
- if you switch between windows which are located on the second screen, they flash on the Windows taskbar for some milliseconds and then disappear again
- when clicking the DF taskbar clock, you can see the calendar popup flashing over the deafult Windows taskbar clock for some milliseconds just before it is moved to the other screen

7. Just wanted to ask about the other features I requested, any plans for 3.5.0?
- highlighting of all Start menu buttons when clicking one of them (currently only the Vista start button is highlighted)
- A popup when hovering over the DF taskbar clock like for the Windows clock:


I'll come back to you if I notice any other issues, just starting testing

Best regards

Stefan

Any update on these points?

Hi Keith,

here my answers:

1. Both monitors are 16:10 and use 1920x1200 as resolution. I don't know what was changes, but in 3.4.1. it still worked.

2. + 3. ok

4. I see only the "colored" tray icons of other aplications, but not the Windows ones (Vista x64). I also see no function for influencing this?

5. + 6. + 7. ok

One question / feature request:
Is there a possibility to enabe/disable the second monitor (or monitor X) by hotkey?

Best regards

Stefan

Hi Keith,

find attached the requested information.

Any update on topic 1) and my feature request?

Best regards

Stefan

Hi Keith,

I checked today with BETA 8:

# Preview Popup: looks ok now, did you change something in BETA 8?
I just noticed that the DF preview popup is not totally identical (pixel-by-pixel) to the Vista one, do you have room for improvements here or is it already as identical as possible? In this case, I can save the effort to investigate the deviations, otherwise, I could do a quick comparison for you

# Any update on the points #2, #4 and #5?

Best regards

Stefan

#2 - If that's DisplayFusion on the right and Vista on the left, then I think Vista needs to be fixed. DisplayFusion looks better.

On the left (Vista) it looks like start button being placed into/inside the taskbar and the dark border on the left and the right side is just to make that visible. A border around the hole start button would only make sense if the entire button were lying inside the takbar which is the case if you give the taskbar a height of 2 or 3 - then the button also has a corresponding border in Vista

As it is highly unlikely that Vista will be fixed, I think DF should be aligned to the Vista look for convenience reasons, shouldn't it?

Confirmed, works fine But I still don't get why the popups for Network and Volume do not have this flashing issue of the Clock, one would think that they all behave the same way ^^

Any schedule for #2 and #5?

One thing I noticed under Vista:

In my opinion, to be consistent, there should be no space between the popup and the taskbar.

And two issues I noticed under Windows 7:

The DF sound popup (right) seems to be misplaced in the current BETA, doesn't it? This does not happen under Vista, but there, the network popup seems to misplaced when the tray icons are aligned to the left:



I think I mentioned this already some time ago: the original start button has some kind of light corona around it (left), the DF one does not. And when pointing the mouse over the button, the original start button has some kind of fluent/fading effect for the highlighting, the DF has not, it just switches the image without anomation.

Hi Keith,

the space issue has been fixed, right? (issue #5). I think you posted an update for this in one of my old threads...

Then the only thing left so far is the point with the Jump List in Vista. You're right, it behaves the same way like in Win 7, but if you for example compare it with the way the tray popups of Vista look like, it is not consistent:



You can see that although there's also the shadow in Vista to the right, the popup has no distance to the taskbar. Of course you can argue that a jump list is not a native Vista feature and therefore is free in its behaviour, that would be fine for me, I just wanted to point that "issue" out and make clear that it MIGHT be more consistent if there was no space in Vista

But one thing I really found a bit strange is the context menu of windows that are moved to the DF taskbar, because it also has this Win 7 style which is totally different from the context menu you get when right-clicking on a taskbar entry of the Vista taskbar:



And furthermore, you can Minimize/Maximize/Resize/Move the window easily because you don't have these entries in that "special" context menu. Is this by intention of would it be possible to have to "uncool" Vista context menu also on the DF taskbar (to have it consistent through all taskbars)?

Any news on "issue" #7 (highlighting of all Start menu buttons when clicking one of them - you said there might be plans for adding it)?

Best regrds

Stefan

Hold down shift when right-clicking to get the standard system menu. Works for native Win7 taskbars, too.