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Actual Virtual Desktops Full Changelog
[!] Important
[+] New
[-] Fixed error
[*] Changes
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Actual Virtual Desktops 3.2.2 (22.11.2011)
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[-] Sometimes the dwm.exe process crashed.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 3.2.1 (11.11.2011)
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[+] Auto-scrolling of tabs in the Settings dialog is added so the active
tab should remain always visible and other tabs fill the entire visible
space.
[-] Title button did not update its placement in Mozilla Firefox 7 windows
after maximizing/restoring a window.
[-] In some cases, console windows might hung for some time at startup.
[-] Some Configuration windows (like Select Window from List, Test Regexp)
did not return into a visible area after their last monitor was
disconnected.
[-] Sometimes, empty match lines appeared in the Test Regexp results.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 3.2 (21.10.2011)
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[+] Norwegian language is added (translation provided by Stale Pedersen).
[+] Ability is added to toggle the "Run the library from the installation
folder" option via program's command line (use the L+/L- command line option
to turn this option on/off, accordingly; by default, this option is off).
[*] Window rules (specifics and exclusions) are now compatible with windows of
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
[*] Compatibility with many Adobe products is improved (however, some functions
may be unavailable yet).
[*] Compatibility with Mindjet's MindManager is improved.
[*] Compatibility with TechSmith's SnagIt is improved.
[*] Tracking of window caption changes is improved (in particular, for own
Actual Virtual Desktops configuration dialogs).
[*] Title buttons look and behave correctly in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010
windows.
[-] Microsoft Excel 2007/2010 crashed after opening/closing the Chart Source
Data dialog.
[-] Various Adobe products (like Photoshop, Flash, InDesign, Dreamweaver,
Fireworks, Illustrator) crashed upon exiting.
[-] Autodesk Softimage hung at startup if Actual Virtual Desktops was running.
[-] Virtual Desktops Switchers displayed even when the "Enable virtual
desktops" option was off.
[-] After activating the Independent mode for virtual desktops, wallpaper
settings lost for a monitor with no virtual desktops.
[-] Virtual Desktops Switcher in the Independent mode did not react correctly on
switching a monitor on/off.
[-] Opening first Firefox 7 window on one virtual desktop and then opening
second window on another activated the first virtual desktop unwantedly.
[-] Title buttons' glow effect looked wrong with non-standard values of
Screen DPI.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 3.1 (01.08.2011)
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[+] Indonesian language is added (translation provided by Elda Taluta).
[*] Windows Vista/7: When installing a new version, special system mechanism
is used to avoid the reboot after updating program's runtime library.
[-] In some cases, Virtual Desktops facility crashed in multi-monitor systems.
[-] Windows Vista/7: Sometimes Actual Virtual Desktops caused Desktop Window
Manager's crash.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 3.0.2 (11.07.2011)
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[-] Multi-monitor wallpapers looked wrong if there were portrait-oriented
monitors.
[-] Console windows hung for 5 seconds after launching.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 3.0.1 (25.05.2011)
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[*] Virtual Desktop Switcher reacts correctly on visual theme changes.
[-] The Move to All Desktops option stopped working.
[-] Actual Virtual Desktops hung when trying to update a preview
for a hung application.
[-] Sometimes Actual Virtual Desktops crashed while displaying a multi-preview.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 3.0 (01.05.2011)
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[!] The Virtual Desktops facility allows having independent lists of virtual
desktops on different monitors. Each monitor can display its own Virtual
Desktops Switcher.
[+] The ability is added to duplicate the Virtual Desktops Switcher on
all available monitors.
[*] Compatibility with the fullscreen mode of Adobe Flash Player is improved.
[*] Virtual Desktops Switcher more accurately detects the switching of
a fullscreen window to windowed state.
[*] Virtual Desktops Switcher looks and behaves more accurately in
the Aero visual theme.
[-] Crashes of skinned Media Monkey windows are fixed.
[-] Edit boxes worked incorrect with large values.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 2.5 (11.02.2011)
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[+] The ability to add custom hotkeys for certain actions is added
(see the "Options - Hotkeys" tab).
[+] The ability to backup/restore the configuration is added (see
the Backup/Restore buttons in the Configuration toolbar).
[*] The separate Start/Stop Actual Virtual Desktops hotkeys
are replaced with the single Toggle Actual Virtual Desktops hotkey.
[-] Virtual Desktops Switcher disappeared after switching desktops.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 2.4 (19.11.2010)
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[+] The glow effect when hovering the extra title button with the mouse pointer
in Aero visual theme is added.
[+] Title buttons' skins for the Black and Silver Office 2007 styles are added.
[+] The option to select which kind of click (single or double) on the program's
tray icon is used to launch the Configuration is added.
[*] Specific Settings list and Exclusions list do not display the value
of criterion (class, caption, program) for a certain item if the criterion
in this item is disabled.
[*] Configuration panels can be scrolled with the mouse wheel.
[-] Title buttons did not work in Office 2010 64-bit edition.
[-] Title buttons disappeared after moving a window to secondary monitor on
some display configurations.
[-] If the Configuration window was closed on a secondary monitor and then
the monitor had been unplugged - the Configuration window had not returned
into a visible desktop area.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 2.3 (04.08.2010)
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[+] Support of regular expressions has been added for the Window Caption
criterion.
[-] Title buttons did not appear in MS Office 2010 applications.
[-] Title buttons interfered with the tabs dragging in Google Chrome under
Windows 7.
[-] At the high load on the system (with dozens of windows opened at once),
the program began to consume too much graphic resources under Windows 7 x64.
[-] Creating/modifying window settings from the Windows Monitoring Log window
did not work.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 2.2 (03.06.2010)
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[+] The ability to create specific window settings from the Windows Monitoring
Log window is added.
[*] The default key combinations for the Move to Next/Previous Virtual Desktop
window actions have been changed to Win+\ instead of Win+= and Win+Shift+\
instead of Win+Shift+=, accordingly, because of conflicts with Windows 7
reserved hotkey.
[*] Now Vista SideBar widgets are visible on all virtual desktops.
[*] Administrative tools (like Regedit, Event Viewer, etc.) are now extended
in Vista/7.
[*] Support of console windows under Windows 7 is improved.
[-] Title buttons were drawn incorrectly in windows using right-to-left
languages.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 2.1 (12.02.2010)
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[!] The console windows support is available on Windows 7.
[!] Checking for updates online by contacting Actual Tools website and
retrieving information about latest version available has been added.
The check process can be launched either automatically with the defined
period (daily, weekly, monthly) or manually by pressing the Check Now
button (see the "Check for Updates" group in the General Options panel).
[+] All executable files (including setups) are digitally signed.
[+] The option to prevent running the library from the %Temp% folder has been
added (see the "Run the library from the installation folder" option in the
"Control Center Options" group).
[+] The ability to customize the background color for the "Single picture"
wallpaper mode is added.
[+] New "Crop to fit" wallpaper position mode has been added.
[+] New hotkey combinations to suspend/resume the Control Center
(Ctrl+Alt+Num-/Ctrl+Alt+Num+ by default, respectively) have been added.
Please note that they are disabled by default.
[+] The ability to turn off automatic switching of virtual desktops
has been added (see the "Virtual Desktops Options" group in the Virtual
Desktops tab).
[*] The Virtual Desktops Switcher now correctly displays the Unicode window
captions.
[*] Tracking of window caption changes has been improved.
[-] The problem with the not responding Control Center while logging off is
fixed.
[-] Intermittent crashes of Control Center after reboot are fixed.
[-] The intermittent crashes of applications written in Visual Basic have been
fixed.
[-] Title buttons looked and placed incorrectly in non-standard screen DPIs
(e.g. if the "Large fonts" option was enabled).
[-] After suspending/resuming Control Center, windows weren't returned to their
assigned virtual desktops.
[-] The bug with interrupted Desktop Background Slideshow feature in Windows 7
has been fixed.
[-] The unwanted automatic cyclic switching of virtual desktops has been fixed.
[-] The bug with corrupted icons in the Virtual Desktop Switcher has been fixed.
[-] After minimizing and then restoring Photoshop CS4 there was a redundant set
of title buttons.
[-] The bug with the blurred title buttons in Windows Explorer windows under
Vista Aero has been fixed.
[-] Crash of some programs (e.g. WinZip 14 Professional) when using system
menu commands has been fixed.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 2.0 (12.08.2009)
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[!] Virtual Desktops Switcher window is added: it displays a set of toolbars
(one toolbar per virtual desktop) where each toolbar shows the icons of
applications running on its corresponding virtual desktop. You can toggle
this Switcher window via special hotkey (Alt+` by default).
[+] Windows Thumbnails feature is added. Once enabled, it creates a small
preview copy for each running window (either visible or hidden) and displays
this preview as a visual tip over Virtual Desktops Switcher buttons.
[+] The ability to shift the extra title button along title bar is added.
[*] Virtual Desktops panel is slightly redesigned:
- background and hotkey settings are divided onto separate tabs;
- the Switcher settings group is added.
[-] The bug is fixed: in full screen applications (like games) title buttons
were though invisible but still active and responded to mouse clicks.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 1.2 (08.04.2009)
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[+] Now virtual desktops support the extra multi-monitor settings for
their wallpapers.
[+] The option to make additional title buttons Office 2007-like is added.
[+] The Description field is added for Exclusions.
[*] The amount of consumed Windows graphics resources is decreased
significantly (this prevents the resource exhaustion when too many windows
stay open).
[*] Now hotkeys in active window work even if it has no title bar.
[*] Now Settings dialog remembers its Maximized state between sessions.
[-] The bug in Settings dialog with non-disappearing horizontal
scroll bar is fixed.
[-] Now the additional title buttons and system window menu items work
as expected in Windows Live Mail.
[-] Now console windows are correctly extended in the zero user session
on Windows XP SP3 and Windows 2003.
[-] The long unwanted pause, when closing console windows via Close
title button, is removed.
[-] The incorrect behavior of Virtual Desktops (activating hidden windows,
such as Sound Volume Control, unintentionally activated the first
virtual desktop), is fixed.
[-] The incorrect behavior of Virtual Desktops under Windows Vista, when using
the Alt+Tab key combination (the appearance of the Task Switcher window
unintentionally activated the first virtual desktop), is fixed.
[-] Now virtual desktops with custom wallpaper correctly consider the
Desktop Background settings of the Remote Desktop Client.
[-] The crash of Windows Vista Snipping Tool, when closing it, is fixed.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 1.1 (16.10.2008)
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[*] Now the title button looks fully native under Windows Vista Aero.
[*] Now you can cancel the changes of Target Window edit fields made with
the Window Finder by pressing the Escape key.
[*] The overall stability is improved when running on Windows x64.
[-] The bug caused the Explorer crash when trying to delete files under
Windows Vista/2008 x64 is fixed.
[-] Now the change of order in the list of virtual desktops is handled
correctly.
[-] Now the tool windows of Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Flash CS3
are processed correctly when switching between desktops.
[-] The reaction on Win+D system hotkey is improved.
[-] The compatibility with windows of Mozilla applications
(Firefox, Thunderbird) is improved.
[-] Now the custom wallpaper is preserved correctly while running via
the Remote Desktop connection.
[-] No more crashes of NoteZilla when closing its Preferences dialog.
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Actual Virtual Desktops 1.0 (04.07.2008)
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[!] Initial Release
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