ObjectBar 1.99g[b].003 good, bad, and wishlist
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The Good
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Autohid bars are snappy in poping up, though they can sometimes get stuck behind other apps (like visual studio).
Loading large folders in a popup bar seems to have been sped up.
In general object bar seems to have shaken it's speed problems (for today at least).
No longer crashes when double clicking on the MyDocuments link on a bar
You fixed the send to problem on the system menu, woot!
The special clock is a nice plugin, but it doesn't size correctly to the bar if you have a thin bar at top.
RSS Feed is very nice.
Thank you for letting me set the width of my sidebar again
The Bad
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Adding a folder link to a network path that doesn't exist, or partially exists causes object bar to hang. If you launch object bar and a network path that usually exists is down (machine rebooting or something), object bar will hang on launch.
Changing the skin of a bar shrinks it down (i.e. changing the skin on my side bar on Developer), this looks REALLY bad and is annoying.
Cannot drag items into the theme editor to create folder or shortcut links
When dragging items onto the object bar itself, it does not allow you to navigate into subbars to put stuff there instead. You can only drag to a 'main' bar.
We STILL have the problem where if I select a folder in a subbar, it keeps the subbar showing after the folder launches. (https://forums.stardock.com/?ForumID=190&AID=88886)
Windows taskbar will reappear even though object bar sets it to hidden (I believe yahoo messenger is the culprit somehow), object bar should try to monitor this.
Theme Editor interface is still terrible, no changes have been made to this despite the abundance of complaints made over its history. The two paned thing just doesn't work, the fact that drag & drop doesn't work with it either is terrible. Put a tree on the left side so you can navigate through your bar heirarchy and go from there with your GUI design.
When you add a new element, it always puts it on the bottom, no matter where you've clicked on the right hand pane.
If you configure a popup bar, there is no place to set it's icon. You have to go to the advanced theme editor to do this.
For gods sake, replace the red exclaimation point for the Command item with something else.
Wishlist
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Undock is not an option for a windows/system command, this is useful for laptops...
Need way to drag a bar shortcut onto the desktop/folder without removing it from the bar (CTRL + Click?).
Need way when changing a skin on a bar, to propigate that skin change to all sub-bars.
Lets change the persistence format to XML from this INI stuff. Publish some schemas / apis and let us go to town. For power users like me who would love to write little utils to quickly setup sub-bars for development projects (choose a directory, it finds the solution file, the build directory, etc), this would rock.
Have the RSS plugin put something in object bar's system tray when the feed updates.
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Autohid bars are snappy in poping up, though they can sometimes get stuck behind other apps (like visual studio).
Loading large folders in a popup bar seems to have been sped up.
In general object bar seems to have shaken it's speed problems (for today at least).
No longer crashes when double clicking on the MyDocuments link on a bar
You fixed the send to problem on the system menu, woot!
The special clock is a nice plugin, but it doesn't size correctly to the bar if you have a thin bar at top.
RSS Feed is very nice.
Thank you for letting me set the width of my sidebar again
The Bad
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Adding a folder link to a network path that doesn't exist, or partially exists causes object bar to hang. If you launch object bar and a network path that usually exists is down (machine rebooting or something), object bar will hang on launch.
Changing the skin of a bar shrinks it down (i.e. changing the skin on my side bar on Developer), this looks REALLY bad and is annoying.
Cannot drag items into the theme editor to create folder or shortcut links
When dragging items onto the object bar itself, it does not allow you to navigate into subbars to put stuff there instead. You can only drag to a 'main' bar.
We STILL have the problem where if I select a folder in a subbar, it keeps the subbar showing after the folder launches. (https://forums.stardock.com/?ForumID=190&AID=88886)
Windows taskbar will reappear even though object bar sets it to hidden (I believe yahoo messenger is the culprit somehow), object bar should try to monitor this.
Theme Editor interface is still terrible, no changes have been made to this despite the abundance of complaints made over its history. The two paned thing just doesn't work, the fact that drag & drop doesn't work with it either is terrible. Put a tree on the left side so you can navigate through your bar heirarchy and go from there with your GUI design.
When you add a new element, it always puts it on the bottom, no matter where you've clicked on the right hand pane.
If you configure a popup bar, there is no place to set it's icon. You have to go to the advanced theme editor to do this.
For gods sake, replace the red exclaimation point for the Command item with something else.
Wishlist
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Undock is not an option for a windows/system command, this is useful for laptops...
Need way to drag a bar shortcut onto the desktop/folder without removing it from the bar (CTRL + Click?).
Need way when changing a skin on a bar, to propigate that skin change to all sub-bars.
Lets change the persistence format to XML from this INI stuff. Publish some schemas / apis and let us go to town
. For power users like me who would love to write little utils to quickly setup sub-bars for development projects (choose a directory, it finds the solution file, the build directory, etc), this would rock.Have the RSS plugin put something in object bar's system tray when the feed updates.
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