If you were having problems with NextSTART or WorkShelf under Win XP, this is a MUST HAVE release. The following is a list of changes, fixes and additions:
What's new in WorkShelf 1.0?
Added: Options to Left/Right Justify or Center time and date in the clock module Advanced Skinning settings. X pos is always used as an offset.
Added: 'Show Seconds' option to Digital Clock advanced Skinning settings.
Added: 'Invert'command to Shelf main menu, used to flip the dock upside down without having to go to Preferences.
Added: Clock's spoken Military Time format is now working.
Added: 'Disable Edge Bump' option to the Global Preferences tab.
Added: The Atomic Clock now automatically uses the last successful time server first after the very first poll. This way no time is wasted polling dead or temporarilly unavailable time servers after the first time check. Time checking algorithms have also been enhanced, so that the time should now be 100% correct and the most optimal server used at all times.
Added: WS can now be docked at the top as well (top-down orientation).
Added: New 'Quick Launch' shelf type.
Changed: When dragging a tab up and down to resize the shelf vertically, a minimum of 1 icon row is now always visible. Shelf can only be collapsed by clicking on the collapse button.
Changed: The Icon Settings Preferences tab has been removed.
Changed: Options to place the Shelf on a vertical orientation have been removed.
Changed: Method used to launch applications - Windows should now automatically open the Launch With dialog if trying to run an unknown file extension.
Fixed: Bug where a theme like OS2 Warp would assume the transparent areas of the previously loaded theme.
Fixed: Folder type shelves and the new Quick Launch shelf were not accepting dropped files.
Fixed: Under certain conditions a in-shelf module could be displayed overlapping the tab area when the shelf was collapsed and inverted.
Fixed: Trying to drag a folder from the shelf to an Explorer window would fail with a 'cannot copy file or folder' error.
Fixed: The tabs area would not be displayed right in some themes (like BeOS classic) if the shelf was upside down.
Fixed: Left and Right mini-tab mouse overs were not working properly when the shelf was inverted.
Fixed: The screen edge that must be bumped to uncollapse WS is now relative to the orientation of the shelf (top screen edge if shelf is inverted, bottom edge otherwise).
Fixed: Problem launching shortcuts on some XP systems.
Fixed: Improved the 32x32 NeXT-style recycle bin icons.
Fixed: Resource leak everytime WS failed to connect to an Atomic Clock server.
Fixed: The recycle bin is no longer polled every 3 seconds to find out when it switches from full to empty and vice-versa so that the icon can be updated. Apparently this could cause high CPU usage if the Recycle Bin had thousands of items in it. With the new method, the Recycle Bin is only scanned when necessary.
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What's new in NextSTART 2.80?
Added: New 'Quick Launch' special folder. Displays a menu with the contents of Explorer's Quick Launch folder.
Added: The 'More' option (limiting the number of items displayed in a menu) now works with all kinds of menus.
Changed: Method used to launch applications - Windows should now automatically open the Launch With dialog if trying to run an unknown
file extension.
Fixed: Problem launching shortcuts on some XP systems.
Fixed: Problems showing the Registration tab automatically on unregistered NextSTART Corporate versions with an expired trial
period.
Fixed: Trying to drag a folder from a menu to an Explorer window would fail with a 'cannot copy file or folder' error.
