What's new in DesktopShelves 2.4
Aug 16, 2019
- App backwards compatible now again all the way to macOS 10.9.5
New in DesktopShelves 2.3 (Aug 13, 2019)
New in DesktopShelves 2.2 (Sep 11, 2017)
- The app's menu bar icon now shows when using the dark menu bar theme
New in DesktopShelves 2.1.4 (Jul 27, 2016)
- Addressed issue with Dashboard closing right away on Mac OS X 10.9 Mavericks
- Addressed issue with shelves overlapping Notification Center (disable the setting "Show shelves during Mission Control")
New in DesktopShelves 2.1.3 (Jul 11, 2012)
- Solved: shelves now remain visible when showing the desktop with the "show desktop" gesture or by pressing F11
- "separate shelves per space" feature restricted to Mac OS X Snow Leopard and Lion for now (until a solution is available)
- Replaced welcome window with "quick tour" window
New in DesktopShelves 2.1 (Apr 17, 2012)
- Keyboard navigation for shelves.
New in DesktopShelves 2.0 (Jan 23, 2012)
- Added a hotkey to temporarily hide all shelves
- Shelf item angle can now be changed all the way to a flat view
- Now works with file labels set in Finder
New in DesktopShelves 1.4 (Oct 14, 2011)
- Adjustable shelf sizes
- Adjustable space between shelf items
- Sortable shelves
- Bonus: drag and drop between shelves
- A few people had reported problems where DesktopShelves once in a while would stop responding ("beach ball syndrome"). This should be fixed now, too.
New in DesktopShelves 1.3.4 Beta (Sep 27, 2011)
- Adjustable shelf sizes.
- Sortable shelves.
New in DesktopShelves 1.3.1 (Sep 4, 2011)
- Re-open recently closed shelves from the menubar icon
- Renamed menu "Reveal in Finder" to "Show in Finder"
- Renamed preference "Activate/deactivate" to "Shelves in foreground/background"
- Lion only: no need to log out/log in to activate Finder integration
- Lion only: shelves don't participate in Mission Control anymore
- Added error messages when dropping a file on a shelf is not allowed
- Warning if web and Mac App Store versions are installed at the same time
- Launching the app a second time in Finder or the Dock toggles the shelves
- Renamed menu "Remove Shelf" to "Close Shelf"
- Now accepting license keys with accidental spaces
- Addressed issue that could lead to a crash when opening a very large folder as shelf
New in DesktopShelves 0.9 Beta (Jun 2, 2011)
- Is it possible to drag text from an application like Mail.app, Safari, or TextEdit and drop it on a shelf? Well, now it is!
- Having one shelf is nice, but many shelves are even better if only they would line up nicely on the Desktop. Here comes the Snap-to-Shelf feature. When you move a shelf around, it will now snap to the horizontal and vertical position of other shelves on the same screen.
- Another popular request: you can now reveal the shelf folder in Finder from the shelf context menu. Mike, Karim-Pierre, this one is for you.
- Renaming the shelf folder? Not a problem. The shelf will update itself automatically even if you move the shelf folder.
- Moving the shelf folder to the Trash? Say Goodbye to the shelf. It will go away automatically when you move the shelf folder to the Trash.
- Oops. Removing a shelf when not all file thumbnails had been generated could cause DesktopShelves to crash. Not anymore. Thanks to “anonymous” for the crash report!
New in DesktopShelves 0.7.1 Beta (May 16, 2011)
- New: Added "Register License" preference pane for adding your pre-order license.
- Solved: After dragging away the last item from a shelf the shelf background would not be clickable at times.
New in DesktopShelves 0.7 Beta (May 12, 2011)
- New: Finder context menu entry to open folders as shelf.
- New: Shelves automatcially update when the shelf folder is changed (e.g. if you add or remove files).
- New: Items on shelf are sorted by name automatically even after dropping more files on a shelf.
- Improved: Selecting adjacent items made easier (special thanks to Mark, Ken, John, and yohmi for your feedback).
- Improved: Selected item animations are a bit smoother now.
New in DesktopShelves 0.6.3 Beta (May 9, 2011)
- New: Shelves are now always active, even when in background (thanks Mark, Regina, Reberhar).
- New: You can now add new shelves directly from the status menu icon in the menubar (thanks Regina).
- New: Added option to manually refresh shelf contents from shelf context menu (thanks Japh; eventually this will happen automatically).
- New: Now shelf names are always visible by default when in foreground and in background (can be configured in preferences)
- Improved: When moving the shelf, the currently selected item on the shelf is minimized.
- Improved: Shelf highlight color now uses the system color for highlighted controls.
- Improved: It is no longer possible to open the Desktop itself as shelf (thanks ignatz).
- Fixed: Addressed scenario where selected item could be covered partially by another shelf.
New in DesktopShelves 0.6.2 Beta (Apr 8, 2011)
- New: Realistic shelves: shelves now only intercept mouse clicks on visible areas (removed the "dead" space above shelf board that wouldn't let you click on Finder icons)
- New: Play sound when moving a file to a shelf fails
- Improved: The button in the "Open Folder as Shelf" dialog is now labeled "Open as Shelf" for more clarity
- Improved: Name of selected file/folder is now always visible (thanks Terry and Reberhar)
- Fixed: Removed file/folder would reappear as white icon after changing shelf size
- Fixed: Now shows info message when shelf source folder was renamed/moved/deleted