New
- Panels no longer wait for a sleeping drive. A panel used to check that every app in it was still there before showing up, so an app on a hard disk that had spun down, a network drive or a USB drive held the whole panel until that drive answered: 5 to 10 seconds after a while without use, or after sleep. Panels now show at once with their saved icons and check the apps afterwards; an app that is gone still gets its missing icon. Measured with a group holding one app on a network drive that does not answer: 22 s before, 0.8 s now. (#14)
- Hide the icon by the clock. Right-click it and pick Hide this icon, or switch off Show the icon by the clock in Settings, which is also where it comes back. The program keeps doing its job without it. (#14)
- Windows 11 menus by the clock. The right-click menus of the app's icon and of the groups by the clock now look like the menus of Windows 11: rounded corners, more room, light or dark like the app. (#14)
- Russian. The app, its panels and its menus now speak Russian, picked with Windows or in the quick bar (RU). The first version is machine-assisted: if a text reads wrong, say so in an issue. (#14)
Thanks to @mihail8059784 for all four.
Install
Download TaskbarGroupsFluent-Setup.exe below and run it. If you already have it, the app offers the update when it opens. TaskbarGroupsFluent-Setup-Offline.exe carries the .NET 10 Desktop Runtime inside, for PCs without internet.