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@Lixkote Lixkote released this 12 Apr 12:14
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This is a release which focuses on hotfixing some minor bugs and adding new stuff.
Again, much thanks to all of people that support me in one way or another, and for those interested 😊

Fixed:

  • Broken scrollbar style
  • Broken highlight on start menu links
  • Broken styling elements
  • Various installer quirks

New features:

  • Variable tile sizes (Small, Normal, Wide, Large - to set the desired one for your tile, add "YourDesiredSizeHere" in the tiles config xml)
  • Force tile colorization in the xml (Available colors: Blue, Teal, Pumpkin, LightGreen, PaleGreen, Gray, Purple, Pink, Red, Black - to use them, set YourDesiredColor in the tiles config xml)
  • New theme - fluent, inspired by Windows 10 RTM's Start Menu. To enable it, change the "Theme=" value in the config.txt from "Metro" to "Fluent"
  • Various improvements for Windows 10 users
  • Added Windows Vista and Windows 7 (no service pack) support to the installer.
  • User Profile Picture style changing (rounded, square - Change the "ProfilePictureShape" value in config.txt)
  • Force the filling of start button on Windows builds other than 6.3.9600, for that set "ForceFillStartButton" to true in config.txt
  • New method of configuring features - see the config.txt file at "%HOMEPATH%\DirectStart\Tiles\config.txt"

Features/fixes coming soon:

  • DWM Blur for Fluent theme
  • Windows Aero theme
  • Metro apps support
  • Improved start button hooking
  • No icons for some tiles
  • Fixes for other bugs
  • more that i didn't determine yet

Screenshots of the new prototype "Fluent" theme:
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