Took a little longer than we had hoped for. Here it finally is, the next release - TD6R4.

Besides several bug fixes of some major bugs (like the link launcher not working when SharpE was unpacked in a directory which contained spaces) there is also a lot of new stuff included. For example there is a "new" skin, "Number 8" which basically is a very much improved version of "Number 7". But this new skin makes use of two new features in the application bar. The hover and highlight blending effects are now using the colors of the icon which is assigned to the application bar item. And the multiple window overlay is now displayed as a number instead of the new white squares. Both features are skin specific and currently only supported by the new Number 8 skin. Besides this there are some nice new features in the cursor service (thanks to our user HomerSp).

Another change compared to the previous releases is that the download is now again hosted on sf.net. Bug and feature trackers will follow in a few days.

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Changelog:

[SkinSystem]
* New Skin: Number 8 (greatly improved number 7 version which is using all the new skin features)
* added possbility to blend colors to the colors of the currently used icon
* changed icon resampler to Lanczos (improved icon quality for non 16x16 and 32x32 sizes)
* changed rendering of skins preview to a preview.bmp file in the skin directory (and later using this file in the config instead of rendering the skin again and again and again). Performance Improvement
* fixed a bug causing gradient skin type alpha values not being parsed (not making scheme values possible)

[Applicatiobar.module]
* added new icon highlighting effects
* added possibility to overlay the window number instead of the white squares (optional and defined by skin)
* fixed a bug where it wouldn't unselect the current/highlighted application when switching VWMs

[Taskbar.module]
* Fixed VMware Infrastructure Client console windows not showing in Taskbar (fixes ticket #528)

[SystemTray.module]
* fixed "List Index out of bounds" error

[Exec.service/ LinkLauncherNET]
* fixed a bug which made link starting not work when SharpE was placed in a directories which contained spaced
* fixed links not getting started with elevate argument (if passed along)
* changed actual link launching from shell link resolve to shellexecute
* changed CreateProcess param of the link launcher (fixes some very rare links that did not work)
* disable timeout as soon as WM_SHARPELINKLAUNCH message is received to avoid killing process prematurely.

[Notes.modu le]
* changed default Notes path to {#SharpEUserSettingsDir#} Notes, which will get expanded when necessary (fixes a bug when moving the complete SharpE directory)

[Clock.module]
* fixed some refreshing issues

[Cursor.service]
* added new cursors
* added possibiliy to load cursors from .ani and .png files (by HomerSp)
* added cursor animations (by HomerSp)

[MultimediaInput.servic e]
* added possibility to send any custom command/message with the media controller (by HomerSp)

[SharpMenu]
* fixed a bug with custom icons in sub menus
* fixed an AV when choosing to launch a menu item elevated by right clicking