github vorssaintapp/vorssaint-utils v3.1.8

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Summary

Vorssaint 3.1.8 polishes the whole app. The Settings window gains a search
field and clearer groups, the menu bar metrics learn a compact spacing and
can stand alone without the app icon, and the image converter now produces
PDFs. Community requests came along: an optional mute indicator beside the
menu bar icon, a progress bar when files move to another disk, and HEX
colors copied without the # sign. Under the hood, in app updates now
install reliably and show download progress, the shelf keeps its items
across restarts and updates, the quick panel works properly with file
dialogs and drag and drop, and the menu bar panel no longer flickers on
the Volume Mixer page on Macs with busy audio activity.

Added

  • The quick panel now has a close button, so it can be dismissed with the
    mouse as well as with Esc. The first nine tiles also show a small number
    badge, since pressing 1 to 9 launches them straight from the keyboard.
  • The quick panel's edit mode now adjusts tools in place: tiles with a gear
    badge (Keep awake, Mute microphone, Color picker and Clipboard) open a
    small card with their closest options, like keeping the Mac going with
    the lid closed, the default duration, the muted mic indicator in the menu
    bar, the copied color format and the clipboard history limit, with no
    trip to the Settings window.
  • The window layout grid can now hide the arrangements you never use: a
    tune button in its header switches the buttons to visibility toggles, and
    hidden actions leave the grid while their keyboard shortcuts keep
    working. Most people use a handful of layouts; now the grid can look
    like it.
  • Clicking the Dock icon of the app you are using can now cycle through
    its open windows, like the Command backtick shortcut but with the mouse,
    thanks to a community contribution. Off by default, next to the Dock
    click to minimize option; with both turned on, apps with several windows
    cycle and apps with a single window still minimize.
  • Middle click can now also fire from a light trackpad tap, without
    pressing: choose three or four fingers next to the middle click option in
    the Mouse settings. Off by default; sliding touches never count, and the
    four-finger choice sidesteps the macOS three-finger drag gesture entirely.
  • The menu bar icon now shows when the microphone is muted: a red
    crossed-out mic appears beside it while the mute is on, so a live call
    never catches you guessing. On by default and invisible until you
    actually mute; the switch lives next to the Mute microphone option in
    the Quick Tools settings.
  • Cut and paste in Finder now shows progress when files move to a different
    disk: the floating card gains a progress bar with the file name and the
    position in the batch while the copy is still running. Moves inside the
    same disk stay instant and skip the bar.
  • The Color Picker can copy HEX values without the leading # sign, for
    design tools that reject it. The option appears under the format choice in
    the Quick Tools settings whenever HEX is selected.
  • The image converter can now turn any image into a PDF, following a user
    request: PDF joins JPEG, HEIC and PNG in the format choice, handy when a
    form or service only accepts PDF documents. The quality and maximum size
    controls keep working, so a photo can be shrunk into a small PDF before
    it is submitted. With PDF chosen the start button says Convert to PDF,
    and whenever a result comes out bigger than the original the done card
    says so, since growth is normal for a small photo wrapped in a document.
  • The Settings window gained a search field at the top of the sidebar:
    type a few letters and only the matching pages remain, accents and case
    ignored. It also searches by what lives inside each page, so "lid" finds
    Energy and "quick panel" finds Quick tools. With over twenty pages,
    finding the right one no longer depends on remembering which group it
    lives in.
  • In app updates now show download progress: the panel banner gets a real
    progress bar with a percentage while the new version downloads, and the
    About page shows the same percentage, so a slow connection no longer
    looks like a stuck update.
  • Window layout shortcuts can now be removed one by one, following user
    feedback: most people use a handful of layouts, and every assigned
    shortcut occupies a system-wide key combo other apps then cannot use. A
    new remove button next to each layout clears its shortcut (the button
    shows None), Reset brings the original back, and cleared shortcuts are
    simply never registered.
  • Monitor alerts can now fire as often as every 2 minutes, following user
    feedback that 5 minutes was too long to wait for a memory pressure
    warning. And when notifications for Vorssaint are turned off in System
    Settings, the alerts section now says so, instead of leaving enabled
    alerts silently dead.
  • A new Keyboard shortcuts page in Settings lists every global shortcut
    currently active in one place, including the window layout combos, so
    nobody has to remember which feature page holds which one. Each shortcut
    keeps being configured where its feature lives.
  • The app icon can now step aside while metrics are in the menu bar,
    following user feedback: a new option in the Monitor settings hides the
    icon so only your readings take up space, whether they sit next to the
    icon or as separate items. The icon comes back by itself whenever it is
    needed, when metrics leave the bar and when there is something to show
    you, like a ready update or the muted microphone indicator.
  • Menu bar metrics gained a spacing choice, following user feedback that
    the gaps between readings looked too wide. The new Compact look is the
    default: it hugs the numbers, making the whole strip about a quarter
    narrower while still holding enough room that readings can move between
    one and two digits without the bar wobbling. The Standard option in the
    Monitor settings keeps the old behavior of reserving room for each
    metric's largest value.

Changed

  • The app reads much better with VoiceOver: the quick panel tiles, the
    edit badges, the inline option switches and the window layout controls
    now carry proper spoken labels instead of announcing only "button".
  • Esc in the quick panel now steps back one layer at a time, closing the
    open options card first, then leaving edit mode, then hiding the panel.
    And a quick panel with every tool hidden now explains how to bring them
    back instead of showing an unrelated hint.
  • Panel rows now show their feature's keyboard shortcut in a quiet badge
    when one is active, so the quick panel, Clipboard, Copy text from screen,
    Color picker and Mute microphone remind you of the faster way in. The
    quick panel row also moved to the top of the Utilities section by
    default; a custom order stays as you arranged it.
  • The Settings sidebar got clearer groups: a new Files section gathers the
    Clipboard, Cut and paste, Shelf and Media pages, window features stay
    together under Window controls, and Utilities keeps the quick tools. The
    same pages, in places that are easier to guess.
  • The introduction now presents the quick panel on its own page, with the
    shortcut and a button to open it right away. It is the fastest way into
    the app's tools and used to be easy to miss.
  • The introduction was tightened from sixteen pages to ten: the separate
    tour pages for Cut and paste, Quit on close, the Uninstaller and the
    Temporary area became simple switches on the Optional features page, and
    each feature's own Settings page keeps the full explanation. Installing
    the app should take half a minute, not a slideshow.
  • The memory pressure dot option now sits directly under the Memory row in
    the Monitor settings, next to the metric it controls, matching the
    Network row's inline option. Contributed by Games55k.
  • App icons in the Volume Mixer are much bigger now, sitting beside each
    app's name and volume slider, so rows are easier to recognize at a glance.
  • Selecting several clipboard items now works the Finder way, following
    user feedback: ⌘-click or ⇧-click select rows (an empty checkbox appears
    on hover), and with a selection active the window shows Paste and Copy
    buttons with the count. ⌘C copies the selection without pasting, ready
    for ⌘V wherever you are; Enter and a plain click still paste directly,
    ⌘A selects all visible results and Esc clears the selection first.
    Copied files and images can join a selection too: a files-only selection
    pastes the files themselves, a selection with images pastes as rich text
    with the images embedded (Notes, Mail and TextEdit take everything
    together, plain apps receive the text), and text with file paths combines
    as text.
    Modifier clicks on rows also work reliably now: the window used to treat
    ⌘-click as a window-drag grab, so it never reached the row.

Removed

  • The List navigation mode of the panel is gone: the panel always navigates
    by sections now. Sections were the default and where all the attention
    goes; keeping a second layout of the same panel doubled the ways it
    could break.

Fixed

  • The introduction could get stuck on the menu bar metrics page: the list
    of metrics outgrew the window and pushed the Continue button out of it.
    Every introduction page now scrolls when needed, and the navigation
    buttons always stay visible.
  • Per app memory in the Monitor now matches Activity Monitor: it shows the
    same physical footprint figure Activity Monitor uses, instead of a raw
    measure that counts shared memory twice and reads far too high for many
    apps.
  • Zoom and music production apps now appear in the Volume Mixer again as
    informational rows saying the app manages its own audio, instead of
    silently missing from the list. They are still never touched by the
    mixer, which is what keeps their calls and sessions working.
  • The switcher could miss many apps on busy Macs, including the app in
    front of you and freshly opened ones. The switcher keeps at most 24
    entries, but the cut used to happen in the window server's raw order,
    which puts windows parked on other Spaces before visible ones; now every
    window is collected first, sorted by most recent use, and only then
    trimmed, so the apps you actually use always make the list.
  • Routing a music production app through the Volume Mixer could leave it
    producing no sound at all: apps like Logic Pro, Ableton Live, Cubase,
    Studio One, Pro Tools, REAPER and other DAWs drive their own audio device
    and clock, which the mixer's tap cannot do for them. The mixer now leaves
    these apps untouched, the same way it already does for Zoom, so their
    audio always keeps playing; use the DAW's own output settings to route
    them.
  • Memory use now stays flat over long sessions, answering reports of the
    app growing to several gigabytes after days of heavy use. Window
    thumbnails for the switcher and Dock Preview are copied into the app's
    own memory instead of holding on to system graphics surfaces, respect a
    memory budget besides the entry count, and are released automatically
    when the Mac runs low on memory; clipboard image previews and the menu
    bar metric renders got hard memory ceilings; and the Volume Mixer lets
    go of its per app audio listeners when apps quit.
  • The Show menu bar icon button now places the rebuilt icon beside the
    clock, the last spot macOS hides when the menu bar runs out of room. It
    used to put the icon back at the end near the notch, the first spot to be
    hidden, so on crowded menu bars the button looked like it did nothing. And
    when the icon still cannot appear, the app now explains why (a full menu
    bar, or a menu bar manager like Ice or Bartender keeping it in its hidden
    section) instead of staying silent.
  • A drawing bug made icons render at half their intended size across the
    app, in the Volume Mixer, in the Monitor process rows and in shelf tiles.
    Icons now draw at their full size.
  • Updating from inside the app could close it without applying the new
    version and without any explanation. Now, when your user account cannot
    write to the Applications folder, the app asks for an administrator
    password instead of failing silently; with Gatekeeper turned off, the
    update no longer fails its safety check by mistake; running from the disk
    image, the app explains it needs to be moved to Applications first; and if
    an update still cannot be applied, the app tells you why after it
    restarts, brings the offer right back, and routes the next attempt
    through the administrator password when the failure looked like a
    permission problem, instead of leaving you on the old version without a
    word.
  • Choosing a file from a tool in the quick panel now works. The file dialog
    used to come up unresponsive (folders would not open, files could not be
    selected and only Cancel reacted), and any click inside it could close the
    quick panel in the middle of the selection.
  • The quick panel no longer closes on its own while a tool is open inside
    it. Clicking another app to drag a file into Media, answering a system
    prompt from the Uninstaller, or leaving Homebrew working no longer
    dismisses the panel. With just the launcher grid showing, clicking outside
    still closes it, as before.
  • Items placed on the shelf (files, images, text and links) were erased
    whenever the app restarted, including on every update. The shelf now
    remembers its items: they are saved as you add and remove them and come
    back after a restart or an update. Images and GIFs pasted straight into
    the shelf are stored safely for this too, and an item whose file no longer
    exists on disk is skipped instead of coming back as a broken tile.
  • The menu bar panel no longer flickers repeatedly while the Volume Mixer
    page is open. The panel used to redraw for every audio system event, even
    when nothing visible changed, so on Macs with busy audio activity (wireless
    audio devices renegotiating, apps opening and closing audio connections)
    it flickered constantly while open. The mixer now updates only when
    something on screen actually changes, and bursts of audio events are
    folded into a single update.
  • Two apps with the same name in the Volume Mixer, or two audio devices with
    the same name in the output and microphone lists, could swap places with
    each other whenever the list refreshed. Rows now keep a stable order.

Signed with an Apple Developer ID and notarized by Apple, so it downloads and opens normally. Requires macOS 14 or later. Open the .dmg below and drag Vorssaint to Applications.

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