Versions

Various bug-fixes and enhancements.

• Cope with an empty Firepx profiles directory
• Mac: Fix startup on Java 1.5

• Windows: warn when attempting to run a second app instance
• Windows: use low-level keyboard hook to avoid hotkey conflicts
• Windows: fixed occasional deadlock when accepting text
• Windows: fixed Java problem with -XShare:on JVM argment
• Suggestions: reduce delay betwen keystroke and suggest query to 300ms, and make configurable in properties
• Suggestions: suggested items replace identical history items
• Clicker suggestions: save suggestion to history when clicked
• Hulu suggestions fixed
• Amazon and Amazon VOD suggestions added
• Youtube suggestions added
• Netflix suggestions added
• Last.fm clickable suggestions added
• Remove Pandora as search engine
• Add Bing search engine and suggestions
• Search engine list re-ordered
• Add Favorite items on home screen, program and web-link can be added by right-clicking them in the home screen, or by using the options dialog
• Add ability to launch into Favorites screen instead of normal home screen.

• Improved progress indicator when launching app/website
• Clicker suggestions
• About dialog now contains a 'generate bugreport' file which creates a zipfile with logs
• Text Input suggestions now combine Google suggestions with dictionary
• Mac: capture f6/f7 (home/search) keys from any keyboard type - means that the device buttons work unlike in 0.75
• Mac: do not use Fullscreen Exclusive, but hide dock (menubar is still displayed)
• Mac: hide dock icon, enforce single instance
• Mac: activate app when showing fullscreen window, or dialogs
• Mac: enable debug logging by default
• Windows Installer: no longer reports an error when starting app

• Fixed Google Suggestions in search mode
• Clicking on a URL suggestion launches the browser with the link

• Added ability to extract icons from OSX application bundles
• When launching, keep application visible until other program has started
• Text input now works on Mac
• Mouse-over highlight works on Mac
• Updated ABC and Amazon Video-on-demand URLs
• When entering text, treat all punctuation as word-separators for dictionary lookup
• Add XBMC, CoolIris for IE and VLC to home screen apps
• Add Google's URL suggestions when entering URLs, and search when an invalid URL is entered
• When entering text, clicking [T] button switches between text and password mode

• Fixed problem of specifying icons for home screen links
• Added MacOS default applications and fixed application startup
• OS-specific update check URLs
• Working... indicator overlay (on supported OS's)
• Remove flash of desktop when switching from home screen to keyboard
• Add linux applications via .desktop files

• Add Mac OS X config directory
• Support for Firefox 3.0->3.4 history database
• Linux support

• Test Remove Double Buffering for memory reduction
• Change config dir to .glidetv from .glide

• Fix NullPointerException when Firefox is not installed
• Replace ‘keyboard’ floating button with one with a Glide Icon

• Get URL suggestions from Firefox's bookmarks and typed URL history.

• 'lazily' load dictionaries in the background when required, instead of pre-loading them
• Only have one dictionary in memory at a time.

• changed properties file format so that all lists (websites/search/programs) are no longer numbered

(Instead each list item is named, not numbered and a single property lists item names in order)

• When user modifies home screen progs/links, only save the modified items to users properties file

These last 2 changes should prevent problems with items’ info clashing between default and user properties

• delete user props in installer defaults to false
• check home screen program exists before adding it to home screen…

• Simplified some SVG icons (WMP and itunes), and removed junk from others, improving startup performance
• Added search engine suggestions for truveo
• Automatically check for updates, on startup and every 2 days
• Updated embedded java installer to 1.6u16

• Include French, German, English spell dictionaries with installer
• For text input, switch dictionary language depending on keymap in use
• Added search suggestions engine for hulu