Aston2 Menu 1.5.0
- Aston2 Menu, which replaces the regular Windows start menu.
- Aston2 Panels, which can replace Windows taskbar and yet enhance the shell functionality.
- Aston2 Desktop, which replaces Windows Explorer desktop and can be filled with any Aston 2 widgets and icons.
Thus, complete Aston2 SHELL can be considered the combination of all the above components. But which of them to use is entirely up to end-user`s choice.
Aston 2 Menu features:
- Themes and skins support. Aston2 settings are split into two parts - theme settings and private settings. All Aston2 widgets are skinnable: you can change the skin of any element;
- Widgets support (This demo version contains the following default widgets: Clock, Calendar, Recycle bin, Disks, Power control, Search, Toplist, Username, Weather and Uninstall). Widgets can be built into the desktop, panels or popup menus;
- Fast and convenient search for the files on the local disks and for the information in the Internet;
- Flexible configuration. Every element of the menu can be tweaked and customized, thus letting one to create yet more convenient working area. The same concerns Aston 2 Panels and Aston 2 Desktop as well;
- Animation support in every aspect of Aston2: smooth widgets opening and moving, animated wallpaper, animated icons and other elements of skinned widgets;
- Aston2 Menu can be used both in Aston1 shell (staring from 1.9.5 version) and in Explorer shell.
- Drag`n`Drop operations support, user friendly interface;
- Unicode support;
- XML standard, used for all the parameters setup;
- Multi-language support;
- Plug-ins support.
There are a lot planned features for the future Aston2 Menu release.
Added new widget "Notebook"
Added new widget "Language bar indicator"
*Improved 3D objects rendering
*Fixed several bugs that made their way to previous release
Added new visual effects
Ability to disable icon frames on desktop
* Minor bug fixes
Ability to setup Toplist elements
Enhanced functionality of all the widgets
Various GUI improvements
* Improved compatibility with multimonitor systems
* Improved compatibility with Windows Vista
* Fixed several bugs
- Several new languages
- Increased speed and performance
- Fixed bug with some elements of the control panel and network connections display
- Several minor bugfixes
- Menu speed is significantly increased
- Highlighted item behavior is altered
- Several fixed bugs in the menu and widgets
- Enhanced search algorythm. Now you can search for files using a wildcard.
- Previews in skins
- Hotkeys for the Menu call
- Tooltips for the Top List and Search widgets
- Several fixed bugs
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