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Flavours Changelog

What's new in Flavours 2.0 Build 224 Pre

Jun 20, 2015
  • OS X Yosemite support
  • New UI
  • New Theming Engine
  • Light: lightweight engine with overall better system performance
  • Fast: fast theme generation, fast theming engine, and apply themes instantly (no need to logout to see changes)
  • Safe: seamless system integration, no system files modified on disk
  • Variants: choose from multiple artistic variations
  • Themes: bundled with a hand picked fine selection of 128 themes (+variants) for OS X Yosemite

New in Flavours 2.0 Build 207 Pre (Jun 5, 2015)

  • Fixed an issue that could prevent themes from being applied (XPC Error)

New in Flavours 2.0 Build 200 Pre (Jun 4, 2015)

  • CHANGES:
  • Multi-user support - users on same Mac can have different flavours applied
  • Improved app content loading
  • Theming Engine improvements
  • Additional bug fixes
  • UPDATE INSTRUCTIONS:
  • Install/update and Launch the new Flavours2.app
  • Apply a flavour/theme
  • Logout

New in Flavours 2.0 Build 182 Pre (May 20, 2015)

  • It's now possible to change the desktop pic for all spaces (in Preferences)
  • Improved Mail.app dark themes compatibility
  • Improved window search field text color on dark themes
  • Additional theming engine improvements and bug fixes
  • Desktop picture preferences may not be respected in some situations
  • App Exclusions may not be respected in some situations
  • Fixed an issue that could cause some apps to crash (Airmail, Omni suite apps, HyperDock, ...)
  • No theming when "Preferences > Accessibility > Increase Contrast" was turned on
  • Holding down Alt-key when changing theme from Flavours Status Bar icon will now reverse the desktop change preference
  • Desktop change preferences ignored when changing theme from Flavours Status Bar icon
  • Status bar icons may sometimes appear grayed out
  • Some status bar app icons may not be correctly refreshed after switching themes
  • Some controls were not themed if "Preferences > General > Appearance" was set to "Graphite"
  • Fixed an issue that could cause apps to stop being themed when helper tool connection was lost
  • Flavours expire check fails on non-Gregorian calendars
  • And additional bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 2.0 Build 168 Pre (May 8, 2015)

  • OS X Yosemite support
  • New UI
  • New Theming Engine
  • Light: lightweight engine with overall better system performance
  • Fast: fast theme generation, fast theming engine, and apply themes instantly (no need to logout to see changes)
  • Safe: seamless system integration, no system files modified
  • Variants: themes can now have multiple artistic variations
  • Scheduling: use a light theme for the day and a dark one for the night, or schedule a random pick from a collection
  • Collections: organize your favorite themes with collections

New in Flavours 1.2.0 Beta 6 (Oct 18, 2014)

  • Note Yosemite and the future Flavours 2: if you hadn't already, read our statement on this! (http://goo.gl/Z414Ei)
  • New Added support for iTunes 12
  • Fix Ability to uninstall when launching from unsupported OS (Yosemite)
  • Fix Excluded Mailbox.app from theming
  • Fix MUMenu (Macupdate menu) crashes on startup
  • Fix Other improvements and bug fixes

New in Flavours 1.1.16 (Oct 18, 2014)

  • Note Yosemite and the future Flavours 2: if you hadn't already, read our statement on this! (http://goo.gl/Z414Ei)
  • New Added support for iTunes 12
  • Fix Ability to uninstall when launching from unsupported OS (Yosemite)
  • Fix Excluded Mailbox.app from theming
  • Fix Other improvements and bug fixes

New in Flavours 1.1.15 (Aug 18, 2014)

  • Flavours Store Web now allows users to Comment and Rate flavours.
  • Performance improvements and bug fixes.

New in Flavours 1.2.0 Beta 2 (Jul 9, 2014)

  • Flavours 1.2 Beta 2 adds important stability improvements and many bugfixes (Flavours Beta page).
  • Fix: Finder and open/save panels may crash when browsing files
  • Fix: Mail.app crash when replying an email
  • Fix: Excluding an app Window excludes everything (as in hard-exclusions)
  • Fix: Flavours crash when adding image to Image Layer
  • Fix: Flavours crash when adding Application Exclusions on Preferences
  • Fix: Flavours crash on startup
  • Fix: Improved Tab rendering on top 1px (respects stroke existence)
  • Fix: Shape corner radius on some metal buttons could be drawn incorrectly
  • Fix: Status bar app icons could show '0' instead of text
  • Fix: Fullscreen apps could show '1' next to fullscreen icon
  • Fix: System Information.app background not themed
  • Fix: PathFinder leaves blue border line after dragging items
  • Fix: Other stability bug fixes

New in Flavours 1.1.14 (Jun 5, 2014)

  • Fix: Google Chrome could not render Flash/HTML5 in fullscreen
  • Fix: Parallels Desktop settings controls were incorrectly rendered
  • Fix: iDefrag could crash at startup
  • Fix: Safari could crash when using the 'Search with Google' feature on addresses in Contacts.app
  • Fix: Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.13 (May 9, 2014)

  • Fix Flavours doesn't detect new versions for updating if using official (non-beta) channel
  • New Bartender bar theming support (can be excluded on Flavours preferences)
  • Improved Better installation system check
  • Fix Menubar (when transparent) shows stretched desktop pic beneath (when switching Spaces; on fullscreen apps)
  • Fix Menubar may flicker when Notification Center is shown
  • Fix Some old Carbon apps may hang on startup (like CodonCode Aligner)
  • Fix Status bar icons selection is cropped on first click
  • Fix flavours.ignitor memory leak
  • Fix Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.12 (May 5, 2014)

  • Fix:Critical memory leak on several applications
  • Fix: Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.11 (Apr 29, 2014)

  • Fix Menubar was not themed when desktop picture was set to change periodically
  • Fix Safari titlebar/traffic lights may not switch no inactive when clicking the desktop
  • Fix Some themable applications could ocasionally start unthemed
  • Fix "Synching..." titlebar message could be shown forever
  • Fix Flavours Store communication issues
  • Fix Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.10 (Apr 14, 2014)

  • New: Ability to switch Final/Beta update channels on Preferences
  • Improved: Disk Mounter is now themed
  • Improved: Additional check/fix on /usr/local permissions
  • Improved: Theming window bottom bar on additional apps (Parallels, Ecoute for Mac, and others)
  • Fix: Fixed no tab title drawn on Google Chrome v34+
  • Fix: Fix: incorrect window corners on layer-backed windows on Retina® displays (Safari, Calendar, and others) (10.8+)
  • Fix: Theme iTunes traffic lights when window background excluded (but not traffic lights)
  • Fix: Make iTunes background images smaller to prevent bad drawing (caused when .rsrc file size exceds limit)
  • Fix: Prevent Vox app from being themed
  • Fix: Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.9 (Feb 27, 2014)

  • New Added theming support for *lots* of apps with windows like AppStore (horizontal traffic lights)
  • Improved Don’t shuffle featured themes on Flavours Store (now a new featured flavour is added every two days)
  • Fix Image quality on Image layers are degraded/corrupted after multiple flavour edits or on copy/pasting
  • Fix Stoke Layers - "Sides" control doesn't respond to clicks on Retina displays
  • Fix Threading issues could cause unexpected Flavours crashes or hangs
  • Fix Provide non-retina themes to FireFox, as it does not have support for Retina themes
  • Fix Flavours could crash when opening a flavour from the Flavours Store Web
  • Fix Live Preview editor can stop updating after performing a save
  • Fix LibreOffice not being themed

New in Flavours 1.1.8 (Feb 13, 2014)

  • Fix Safari may become unresponsive in Fullscreen under some circumstances (10.8-9)

New in Flavours 1.1.7 (Feb 13, 2014)

  • Improved Several fixes & optimizations when opening flavours from the new Flavours Store Web!
  • Improved Safari cookies not required anymore
  • Improved Flavours Store login process
  • New New link "Open in Browser" added to Flavours Store home page
  • New New flavour context menu item: "Open in Browser"
  • Fix Desktop picture may not be changed if system DB is locked (10.9 only)
  • Fix Safari Favorites bar have wrong top offset/pattern phase on pattern images
  • Fix Progress indicator may be incorrectly drawn on thumbnail
  • Fix Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.6 (Feb 13, 2014)

  • Improved Added optimizations when applying flavour resulting in overall system performance improvement
  • New Flavours extension 2.0 for Firefox (extension + background theme - aka, persona); greatly improve performance over previous version; no need to reinstall extension everytime flavour is applied; check Flavours > Preferences > Exclusions to enable/disable
  • New Added Mozilla Thunderbird support
  • Fix Some apps could be launched with its window hidden
  • Fix Some apps could start duplicated on login (when remembered)
  • Fix Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.6 (Jan 21, 2014)

  • Improved Added optimizations when applying flavour resulting in overall system performance improvement
  • New Flavours extension 2.0 for Firefox (extension + background theme - aka, persona); greatly improve performance over previous version; no need to reinstall extension everytime flavour is applied; check Flavours > Preferences > Exclusions to enable/disable
  • New Added Mozilla Thunderbird support
  • Fix Some apps could be launched with its window hidden
  • Fix Some apps could start duplicated on login (when remembered)
  • Fix Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.5 (Jan 8, 2014)

  • Improved: Better tab drawing for Finder, Safari, and Xcode
  • Improved: Better publications and favorites sync (more often, and in background)
  • New: Menubar is now set to translucent if excluded from theming
  • Fix: iTunes using non-Retina UI on Retina displays
  • Fix: Finder tabs may not be themed on some Retina displays
  • Fix: Some apps may not be themed on login
  • Fix: Flavours may not be correctly uninstalled
  • Fix: Login window could be shown in Demo mode
  • Fix: Flavours Store may forget saved credentials
  • Fix: Firefox being themed when excluded
  • Fix: Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.4 (Dec 21, 2013)

  • New Warns user to not use 3rd party uninstaller, if detected
  • Fix Click on "Current Flavour" doesn't show theme details after Mac is restarted
  • Fix Diagnostics panel not showing up
  • Fix Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.3 (Dec 2, 2013)

  • Fix Google Chrome may crash when changing theme
  • Fix Google Chrome themes (other that Flavours theme) not displaying properly
  • Fix Registration could fail when containing HTML encoded characters
  • Fix Improved uninstall process
  • Fix Other bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.2 (Nov 20, 2013)

  • Support for 10.9.1
  • Fix Incompatibility with Traktor software
  • Fix Incompatibility with some Helper/Agent tools
  • Fix Issue with applescript dialogs in Mavericks
  • Fix Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.1 (Nov 12, 2013)

  • Fix Subsequently opened Safari windows not themed
  • Fix Applications could crash on startup (iDefrag, Contacts,...)
  • Fix Quicklook button missing on store listing
  • Fix Crash after flavour download, before flavour preview
  • Fix Crash when saving flavour (image layers without image)
  • Fix Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.1.0 (Nov 2, 2013)

  • OS X 10.9.0 compatibility
  • New: Added Portuguese translation
  • New: Added search to Store Home
  • New: Redundant network access (fallback URLs)
  • New: Display transparent favorite/publish icon on mouse-over for quick toggle
  • New: Flavours no longer changes files inside iTunes bundle
  • New: Flavours no longer changes files inside Xcode bundle
  • New: Flavours no longer changes files inside Finder bundle (10.9 only)
  • New: Added iBooks theming support
  • New: Ability to apply desktop image to current space only (Settings > Exclusions > Desktop)
  • Improved: Flavours startup mechanism on login
  • Fix: Activity Monitor (10.9) may incorrectly report flavours.agent as not responding
  • Fix: Fixed high CPU usage by Flavours on some circunstances
  • Fix: Safari/Xcode tabs may be incorrectly drawn on retina displays
  • Fix: Agent/ignitor could not start if disabled on OS (causing some apps to be unthemed)
  • Fix: Image-based flavours may be incomplete on iTunes 11.1
  • Fix: Clicking on 'Get More' could crash application
  • Fix: iTunes no longer asks about accepting connections when Firewall is ON
  • Fix: NDSPCShowserver incompatibility
  • Fix: False positives on startup integrity check
  • Fix: Improved Firefox nightly support
  • Fix: Critical issue that could crash Google Chrome v30.x on startup
  • Fix: Google Chrome 0.30 not skinning buttons
  • Fix: Table headers may be incorrectly drawn on some flavours
  • Fix: Safari refreshing issue on startup (10.8)
  • Fix: Desktop picture may not be applied (10.9)
  • Fix: Mail (and others) may not be fully themed when starting in full screen
  • Fix: Issue with Office for Mac when/after resizing windows
  • Fix: Flavours dialogs could appear overlapped
  • Fix: Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.14 (Oct 21, 2013)

  • Fix False positives on startup integrity check
  • Fix Improved Firefox nightly support
  • Fix Google Chrome 0.30 not skinning buttons
  • Fix Table headers may be incorrectly drawn on some flavours
  • Fix Safari/Xcode tabs may be incorrectly drawn on retina displays

New in Flavours 1.0.13 (Oct 4, 2013)

  • Fix Critical issue that could crash Google Chrome v30.x on startup

New in Flavours 1.0.12 (Aug 1, 2013)

  • Fix Tab theming support in TotalFinder 1.4.15+ (Tabs plugin changed)
  • Fix Aqua theme is changed after creating a theme based on Aqua
  • Fix Missing top separator on Messages buddies windows
  • Fix Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.11 (Jul 17, 2013)

  • Fix: Menus with custom UI elements could be incorrectly draw as black or transparent
  • Fix; Bad sub-menus on some Carbon apps (Panorama Sheets, Gene Construction Kit, ...)
  • Fix: Menu refresh issue could hang some applications on start-up
  • Fix: NetNewsWire4 start-up issues
  • Fix: Messages buddies window missing separator and distinct bottom UI style
  • Fix: Flavors stability improvements
  • Fix: Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.10 (Jul 3, 2013)

  • New OS X 10.8.5 compatibility
  • Fix Issue with Firefox 22
  • Fix Issue with registration fields
  • Fix Incorrect theming on PathFinder when inactive
  • Fix Incompatibility with some apps (LibreOffice, MoneyWiz, iCalamus, NexDef and others)
  • Fix Potential hang on applications with custom windows/menus
  • Fix Issue with iPhoto custom printing
  • Fix Some sandboxed applications could crash when hard-excluded
  • Fix Blinking cursor on Flavours startup
  • Fix Improved Carbon apps compatibility
  • Fix Flavours stability improvements
  • Fix Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.9 (Jun 12, 2013)

  • New Ability to hard exclude applications
  • New Ability to send Flavours crash report to Interacto Labs
  • New Flavours now restores previous UI preferences (prior to enabling Flavours) when turning OFF
  • New Added support for AppStore partial updates of Safari/Xcode/iTunes
  • Fix Unable to revert to original iTunes UI after 11.0.4 update
  • Fix Some applications could crash when typing text into tag fields (1Password, Evernote, Pocket,...)
  • Fix Delay on startup before theming some applications autostarted on login
  • Fix Many Flavours stability fixes
  • Fix Improved Skype support
  • Fix Fixed incompatibility issue with QuicKeys.app
  • Fix Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.8 (May 23, 2013)

  • Fixed an rendering issue affecting controls and traffic lights on Retina® devices running OS X 10.7
  • Fix Firefox 21 may be incorrectly themed
  • Fix Older iTunes 10.x may be incorrectly drawn
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could cause bad tooltip drawing
  • Fix Login and Create account panel may be themed with incorrect flavour
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could cause bad window refresh on some apps
  • Fix Click and drag on main screen buttons moves the Flavours window
  • Fix Reduced brightness of Safari background tabs (when window is inactive)
  • Fix Reduced memory footprint of the flavour apply process
  • Fix Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.7 (May 17, 2013)

  • New Determinate progress indicator now animates like in live preview
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could cause the main screen buttons to not respond to mouse clicks
  • Fix Fixed a performance issue affecting applications with bottom bar
  • Fix Fixed a delay and lag issue happening on Google Chrome
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could cause gradient incoerence in bottom bar between editor and output
  • Fix Fixed incorrect image pattern phase on menu bar
  • Fix Fixed an incompatibility with SIMBL based applications
  • Fix Improved Chrome bookmarkbar drawing
  • Fix Inaccurate bottom bar radius corners
  • Fix Flavours Store login panel buttons not themed
  • Fix Fixed minor connectivity issues occuring when working with Flavours offline
  • Fix Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.6 (May 14, 2013)

  • New The Flavours application is now themed!
  • New New themable state: window inactive state! (seamless theme conversion)
  • New New themable element: window bottom bar! (seamless theme conversion)
  • New New themable state: traffic lights hover state! (no default glyphs drawn over, seamless theme conversion)
  • New Improved Gradient Panel: bigger gradient wells, resizable window, new default gradients
  • New Ability to drag & drop images to/from image layers
  • New Google Chrome bookmarks bar and downloads bar are now themed
  • New Publications and Favorites are now synchronized more frequently
  • Fix Significant performance improvement for image-based flavours (editor and applied theme)
  • Fix Fixed a performance issue occurring while dragging window in Apply panel and Editor
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could cause a startup delay for some login items
  • Fix Fixed a memory leak related with flavour images
  • Fix Fixed Gradient Panel library not always being persisted across launches
  • Fix Apply panel doesn't tile current background if it is a solid color
  • Fix Inactive traffic lights incorrectly generated when applying a flavour
  • Fix Fixed Safari/Xcode active tab missing bottom border stroke
  • Fix Fixed issue that could lead to incorrect theming on Microsoft Office apps
  • Fix Fixed a disk permission issue that could cause high cpu consumption
  • Fix Fixed a compatibility issue with ZEVO ZFS + liberate-fileserver
  • Fix Fixed a refresh issue on Google Chrome bar when resizing the window
  • Fix Fixed a refresh issue with DiskWarrior
  • Fix Fixed a refresh issue (sliding image effect) with TotalFinder and XtraFinder when resizing the window
  • Fix Other minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.5 (May 1, 2013)

  • New Ability to choose what flavour UI elements will be applied (with live preview)
  • New Added theming support for AirMail
  • New Added tab theming support for TotalFinder & XtraFinder
  • New Added tab theming support for Google Chrome
  • New Improved Safari and Xcode background tab drawing
  • New Remember navigation options (page size, thumbnail size) per source (local/remote)
  • New Added troubleshooting section under Flavours menu
  • Fix Fixed several color space inconsistencies between UI elements and between editor-output
  • Fix Reduced white overlay percentage for inactive window
  • Fix Rating count not immediately updated after rating a flavour
  • Fix Skype, Safari, iTunes, Firefox, Xcode no longer required to be on /Applications folder
  • Fix Searching for terms containing spaces could crash the app
  • Fix iTunes traffic lights incorrectly drawn
  • Fix Fixed several iTunes retina-related issues
  • Fix App exclusion list for window themeing (Exclusion Preferences) incorrectly also excludes menubar and menus
  • Fix Fixed bad drawing of strokes and inner shadows on segmented controls and tabs (affecting ProLCD Blue, Samui, BBX Mercury Round...)
  • Fix Inner styles from Smart Layers should ignore export/apply flag
  • Fix Improved Spotlight menu drawing performance
  • Fix Improved system caching handling
  • Fix Minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.4 (Apr 13, 2013)

  • Additional system integrity checks and potential issue fixes performed at startup
  • New Better support for chromium-tabs framework based apps (Chrome and TotalFinder coming next release)
  • Fix Fixed an issue that prevented iOS Simulator from starting
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could draw incorrect strokes on Chrome, TotalFinder and chromium-tabs framework based apps
  • Fix Fixed color mismatch in window titlebar that could occur when using fills with transparency
  • Fix Fixed an issue with SnowTape.app
  • Fix Minor bug fixes and improvements

New in Flavours 1.0.3 (Apr 9, 2013)

  • New Performance boost on flavours generation process!
  • New Desktop picture (if not user-excluded) will only be applied on logout
  • New Shuffle featured themes everytime store is accessed
  • New Additional installation healthy checks
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could reset ratings and download count when unpublishing a theme
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could crash Flavours while generating a flavour
  • Fix Fixed bad transparency issue on Firefox contextual menus
  • Fix Fixed an issue that could cause menubar only apps to crash (eg, MUMenu, Butler)
  • Fix Minor bug fixes

New in Flavours 1.0.2 (Apr 5, 2013)

  • Fix Fixed a critical issue that could lead to missing buttons
  • Fix Fail-safe utility (restoreui) now works even after Flavours uninstall
  • Fix Fixed some issues with the Flavours uninstaller
  • Fix Minor bug fixes

New in Flavours 1.0.1 (Apr 4, 2013)

  • Added preliminary support for 10.8.4
  • Fixed a critical issue that could lead to missing buttons after applying a flavour
  • Fixed an issue that could crash Flavours app while applying a flavour
  • Fixed a compatibility issue with Plex Media Center
  • Fixed an issue where inner shadows could be draw inverted
  • Minor bug fixes

New in Flavours 1.0.0 (Apr 4, 2013)

  • Initial release