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sl23 Posts: 285
08/03/2016
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Thanks for the update, Great job 
However, in SPS Manager, the colour for Updates has turned blue. The filter for Updates shows nothing, as I suppose due to Updates being classed as New?
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
09/03/2016
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You beat me to the draw with this post for the 5.01 :-)
Anyway these are my comments for some of the main news:
- The big floating icon can (finally) be minimized. So when you execute a full screen application, watching a film, using a terminal server session or whatever you like, you can hide the SyMenu floating icon. It appears again when you click on the little icon in the notification area. So no more excuses for not using the floating icon...
- The contextual menu tooltip is now a useful feature. It doesn't blink anymore when you focus the bottom items and it's skinned as your menu.
- The SPS programs can be installed inside a container named as their own category. So you can install in one time all the suite programs without crowding your context menu at its root.
- Multiselect is allowed for the SPS using the SHIFT button modifier and the mouse click.
@ls23
As I already said in a previous thread the new and updated SPS are not so different. The two little overlayed icon banners are more than enough to differentiate them. I highlight the background for these new/updated SPS to help you recognizing them but it's not a decent solution in my opinion. I hate randomly used colors and we are currently in this situation so I'm awaiting for some graphical suggestions. If there is a designer out there that wants to help me with SyMenu knock once please.
@ls23
The new filters are not related to the SPS condition but to the state of your already installed programs. If the updatable filter returns nothing it means that you've been good and you've already updated all your installed programs.
edited by Gianluca on 14/03/2016
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sl23 Posts: 285
09/03/2016
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You beat me to the draw with this post for the 5.01 :-)
Haha that's because I check TPFC regularly!
Re: colours. Are you aware that the red is no longer shown? That it worked previous to this update? That both Updates and New are shown in blue? It did work but now doesn't. Perhaps it's some kind of limitation?
Re: filters. Oh I thought the filter for Update would show all apps that were previously in red! Misunderstood how that one works.
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Gianluca Administrator Posts: 1274
09/03/2016
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sl23 wrote:
Re: colours. Are you aware that the red is no longer shown? That it worked previous to this update? That both Updates and New are shown in blue? It did work but now doesn't. Perhaps it's some kind of limitation?
The behavior should be:
- new SPS: little blue overlay on icon (NEW) and blue pastel background color on the entire row
- updated SPS: little red overlay on icon (UPD) and blue pastel background color on the entire row
If it doesn't work that way it's a bug.
The previous behavior was different because we didn't have different icons for new and updated but only a single icon and the background was only red.
Is the change from red to blue color a problem?
Or the problem is that I should use different background colors for new and updated SPS...
Here in Italy we have a traditional character born in the 16th century from an improvisational theater that we call Commedia dell'arte. His name is Arlecchino (Harlequin) and his characteristic is a multicolored costume. Well maybe it's famous abroad too.
When someone dresses with too many colors or makes a PPT presentation with too many colors or even creates a program with too many colors we say that he's doing an Arlecchinata... and it is not a good thing.
Simply I don't want to transform SyMenu in an Arlecchinata so less colors is always better 
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sl23 Posts: 285
09/03/2016
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It seems to be a bug. Now both updates and new apps are blue.
I understand the issue you have with colours. Maybe just have the blue (or preferably red) for new apps only and leave the colour OFF of updates as that isn't really needed I suppose. Whereas new apps should be easily identifiable.
Colour is fine so long as it's subtle and not 'in your face'. The world would be a boring place is everything was black, white and grey! ;-)
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ZeDingo Posts: 8
09/03/2016
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Gianluca wrote:
- The SPS programs can be installed inside a container named as their own category. So you can install in one time all the suite programs without crowding your context menu at its root.
- Multiselect is allowed for the SPS using the SHIFT button modifier and the mouse click.
Thanks, Obama. While not perfect fixes, they at least address my two biggest complaints about SyMenu.
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KoolPal Posts: 16
13/03/2016
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Hi,
The changelog mentions:
- The PAF plugin has been removed
But I find that this plugin still exists after the update.
Do I need to do something manually?
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ZeDingo Posts: 8
13/03/2016
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It means it's not included in this version of SyMenu, and I assume it won't be included in future versions either. If you so choose, simply delete the folder SyMenu\Plugin\SyMenu.Plugin.PAF
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sl23 Posts: 285
13/03/2016
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Yes, it has been removed from new installs. But you need to remove the plugin manually from a previous installation.
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