Thanks Uktus for bringing this to my attention.
Talisman replaces the old and inconvenient Windows desktop by creating your own
unique interface or using one of the hundreds professionally designed desktops created for Talisman. Talisman works on all Windows systems from Windows 95 to Windows XP.
Even the users of old Win95 and NT4 systems can use all newest features on their desktops:
high resolution icons, wide spectrum of graphical styles, unique effects, objects and functions.
The quantity and variety of desktop elements in Talisman are not limited: from simple icons,
graphical buttons and zoomers "like in MacOS" to complex scripts, plugins, java games,
FLASH, HTML, "Longhorn sidebars" and other objects.
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your system
What's New:
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Download: Talisman Desktop 2.8 Beta
News source: In House
Talisman replaces the old and inconvenient Windows desktop by creating your own
unique interface or using one of the hundreds professionally designed desktops created for Talisman. Talisman works on all Windows systems from Windows 95 to Windows XP.
Even the users of old Win95 and NT4 systems can use all newest features on their desktops:
high resolution icons, wide spectrum of graphical styles, unique effects, objects and functions.
The quantity and variety of desktop elements in Talisman are not limited: from simple icons,
graphical buttons and zoomers "like in MacOS" to complex scripts, plugins, java games,
FLASH, HTML, "Longhorn sidebars" and other objects.
This is BETA software!, please use caution when installing it on your systemWhat's New:
- Using Talisman forms as Main Menu.
- New options for Calendar object: displaying events and texts in the associated Text Block.
- New TimeZone and Scripting functions for the Sytem Clock object.
- New plugin "sendcommand.exe" to send any Talisman commands from third-party applications
or Flash movies into Talisman.
- New options for InputBox object: creating Google (Yahoo,MSN and other) searchboxes.
- Connections, Drives, RecentFolders, RecentFiles, Tasks and other new menus and List objects.
- New unique effects for desktop wallpapers. Works by one click!
- Many other new functions, commands and bug fixes.
View: More Information Screenshot: >> Click here << Download: Talisman Desktop 2.8 Beta News source: In House
- Changes:
- JTFE v0.96
- Added Coding Technologies' AACPlus decoder
- fixed deletion of temporary generated WAV files after a burning process on some computers
- fixed typo in some context menu shortcuts
- fixed slowness IPC bug caused by gen_hotkeys
- added "clear" button in internet radio/tv views
- added screenshots of classic/modern mode in installer
- fixed MP3 bitrate calculation (in_mp3 was reporting incorrect lengths on some MP3s)
- fixed incorrect length reporting on long WMA files
- better fix for pledit/video windows showing up at startup when minimized
- fixed db text bug when moving EQ sliders
- upgraded MP3 encoding to LAME v3.96
- fixed crash in WMA playback when using WMA v8 codecs
- updated default streaming values in in_nsv
- added Winamp.com Audio&Video views in the Media Library
- fixed tiny memory leak in in_cdda
- added right click context menu on "Now Playing" item in Media Library
- added script/ActiveX disabling for Media Library's minibrowser (on by default)
- fixed memory leak on MP3 files with messed up ID3v2 tags
- fixed visualization when playing CD tracks
- fixed proxy user:pass@server:port string getting cut when playing Shoutcast streams
- made in_dshow not to handle mms:// streams ending with .wma
- fixed %tracknumber% tag for CD tracks
- fixed some crash bugs in in_mp4
- fixed playlist generation when ripping full CDs
- added "import playlist from folder" in Media Library
- updated Media Library preferences screens
- added new SPS presets from Cockos, Inc. (pitch shifters, etc...)
- added basic streaming (download) support for M4A/MP4 HTTP streams
- added monitoring of fullscreen apps, disables always on top temporarilly
- added IPC_IS_WNDSHADE
- added gen_ml rating ipcs
- added ratings from playlist context menu (acts on selected entries)
- added ratings from song ticker context menu (acts on current track)
- added rating hotkeys in gen_hotkey
- fixed saving read-only playlists
- fixed double separator lines in gen_ml id3less item context menu
- fixed refresh of view losing query after removing dead files & background scan
- added escaping of ", ', [ and ] in ml queries : uses %HH where HH is the hex char code (uses %% for '%')
- added sdk support for multiple audio/video tracks in video input plugins (see wa_ipc.h for ITrackSelector class)
- added multiple audio avi support (right click video window, select "Audio Tracks")
- fixed multimonitor problem when toggling a windowshade on one monitor while playing a fullscreen video on the other
- added ML_IPC_EDITQUERY and ML_IPC_EDITVIEW
- fixed pledit drawing bug under winxp/cleartype
- fixed crash in id3 reading of zero byte files
- fixed crash in sps when exiting winamp before closing the open/save dialog
- added IPC_PUSH_DISABLE_EXIT, IPC_POP_DISABLE_EXIT and IPC_IS_EXIT_ENABLED
- fixed gen_ml crash when inserting item with length -1
- made gen_ml much more resistant to databases that have been corrupted
- fixed ml nuke
- added disabling of "keep on screen" option when going into a different resolution because of a fullscreen application (ie: a game)
- made ui:preferences global hotkey open the prefs to the previously opened page
- fixed a few preferences cosmetic 'bugs'
- modern skin updates :
- fixed windowshade repeat-track button state
- fixed scaling docked toolbars
- fixed 5.03 assert on deletion of newGroupAsLayout()
- fixed floating video windows coordinates dropping to 0,0
- fixed auto opaque when layouts are loaded already docked as toolbars
- fixed fadein/fadeout not used on notification window when linking all normal windows' alpha
- fixed docked toolbars moving when some other window docked to them switches to an alternative layout
- fixed silent crash on shutdown when pledit is docked as toolbar and gen_ml unloads before gen_ff (would not remember settings from session to session)
- fixed snap points
- fixed click on +12db / 0db / -12db
- optimized text scrolling (a lot)
- fixed content of pledit not painting in some instances
- gen_hotkeys are now routed thru System.onKeyDown(name), where name is the name of the hotkey prefixed by "HOTKEY: " (ie: "HOTKEY: Playback: Play"). You may issue a complete; statement to prevent gen_hotkey from handling the hotkey
- fixed horizontal resize of main window with video/vis drawer closed
- added auto-height for next drawer opening when resizing main window with video/vis drawer closed, this avoids having an unreasonably tall drawer open if you just watched a video in a big window and then only resized the player back to its horizontal minimum after the video had closed. auto-height resets to 4:3 proportions
- fixed docking bug when using snapadjustleft
- fixed buggy calculation of time display default width conflicting with right text alignment
- fixed windows moving after changing screen resolution
- fixed rare always on top desync with classic skins
Tried it six months ago. Never again.
and yes I agree that it is unstable and buggy as well
hmmm it IS in BETA stages isnt it?
And they didn't rip off Mac OSX like all the other losers.
Just like BMW, right?
How easy it must be to write "buggy" without having the first clue of what you're on about.
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