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What's new

1.0.7 is in the Microsoft Store · 1.0.8 is on its way

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1.0.7

Lighter and faster

Our biggest update yet: most of Glassline was rebuilt under the hood. On our Windows 11 test laptop it now takes about 90 MB of memory where it took 200, starts in 1.6 to 2 seconds where it took 3.4, and takes 37 MB on disk where it took 234.

Skins for Control Center

Two new looks, Aurora and Deck. Pick yours in Settings, Appearance, Skins.

Choose where the bar and the dock sit

The menu bar can move to the bottom of the screen, where the Windows taskbar was, and the dock to the top (Settings, Menu Bar).

The dock on every display

Multiple monitors: the dock follows the display you click, stays on one, or shows on every display (Settings, Dock).

Folders in the dock

Right-click the dock, choose New Folder in the Dock, and drag apps onto it.

See what becomes of your feedback

Follow your feedback in Settings, Feedback: see what became of it and reply right under it.

  • Hide from Dock, on a right click, keeps a background app out of the dock.
  • For gaming: Settings has a Games page, and the menu bar and the dock get out of the way of a full-screen game.

Also new

  • Three levels of glass transparency
  • Every option found from Search
  • Keep Awake as a quick switch
  • Dots or dashes under open apps
  • Quick actions of each app on its dock icon
  • Badges that count notifications that were waiting

Fixes

Among them:

  • Download progress on the dock icon for Edge and Chrome
  • Files found in Search on a non-English Windows
  • Dock menus that were cut off
  • No Battery tile on a PC without a battery

1.0.8

Sent to the Microsoft Store. It reaches you as soon as Microsoft releases it.

  • Know when an update is ready: Glassline can tell you when a new version is waiting in the Microsoft Store, and a click on the notification opens it. Turn it on or off in Settings, General.
  • Opens on every PC: Glassline no longer needs Visual C++ installed.

Fixes

Among them:

  • The volume pop-up in games that run as administrator
  • Files found faster in Search without Everything
  • Glassline back sooner when Windows holds it back at sign-in
  • A square shadow around the volume pop-up

Earlier versions

1.0.6

  • The new Apps icon in the dock opens the list of every installed app. Switch it on in What's new or in Settings, Dock.
  • Choose your own shortcuts for Search and Today in Settings, Shortcuts, or give the Windows key back to Windows. With Start open, the dock gets smaller and stays under it.
  • The background of the menu bar and the dock goes from clear to solid, and their text can be light or dark: Settings, Appearance.
  • The dock can stay out until a window is maximized or reaches it: Settings, Dock, Automatically hide, When covered.
  • Quick Look plays videos: press Space on one in File Explorer.
  • Fixed: apps that need administrator rights start from Search and the dock again; dock menus no longer close by themselves, and closing one no longer minimizes the app; closing one window preview leaves the others in place.

1.0.5

  • Rest the pointer on an icon under Other controls in Control Center and click its pin, or choose your icons in Settings, Menu Bar. They move to the menu bar, and you can drag any of them along it into your own order.
  • Rest the pointer on an open app in the dock to see its windows, live, and click one to bring it forward. Settings, Dock has how long the dock waits before showing them and the effect they open with.
  • Control Center has a Hardware page: the load of the processor, the memory and the graphics cards, with temperatures where Windows knows them. Choose the figures shown beside Hardware on the Controls page. HWiNFO or MSI Afterburner can add fan speeds and more readings while one of them is running.
  • Type translate good morning to spanish and read the answer in Search. It is made on your own PC, so what you type stays there. Turn it on in Settings, Search and download the languages you want from 49. It is in beta: whole phrases come out well; a single word sometimes does less well, and can be looked up in Wiktionary with a second switch.
  • Type 100 usd to eur and Search answers with the European Central Bank's rate, kept on your PC for when you are offline. An amount alone, like 100 usd, is answered in your own currency and the ones you convert into most.
  • Search converts volume, speed, area, file sizes, connection speeds and time, next to length, weight and temperature. Try 100 km/h in mph or 1500 mb to gb. Unit names work in all six languages.
  • Add the address of an .ics calendar in Settings, Control Center, and its events show in Today next to your own. Each calendar can have its own colour, name and reminder.
  • Settings, General saves your whole Glassline to one file: settings, the dock, your own events and what Search has learned. Load it after a reinstall or on another PC and everything is back.
  • Right-click anything in the dock and choose Change Icon to give it a picture of yours: a PNG, an ICO, an SVG, a photo. Use Default Icon brings the original back.
  • Settings, Control Center has a switch for each module and quick switch of the Controls page, and for the calendar, Now Playing and the notifications of Today. What you switch off leaves the panel.
  • With an app in front the dock stays hidden. Turn on Come out when an app asks for attention in Settings, Dock and it slides in when another app has something for you, and stays until you answer. It no longer goes up and down with every blink.
  • Some apps open their window with the title bar behind the menu bar, where you cannot take hold of it. Glassline now moves such a window straight down to meet the bar.
  • Settings has an Accessibility page with two switches. Follow Windows' text size makes Glassline grow with the text size you set in Windows. Follow Windows' contrast themes draws Glassline in the solid colours of the contrast theme that is on in Windows.
  • With Everything installed, Search finds files as fast as you type. That now holds for Everything 1.5 as well as 1.4.
  • With two displays, a click on a display brings the dock to it, in that display's own colours. The dock hides only for windows on its own display: on one that shows the desktop it stays out while you work in an app on the other.
  • Also new: painted weather: a picture for every kind of sky; extra app menus wait under » when the bar is full; Settings has sub-pages and a field that finds any setting, minimizes to the dock and keeps its place; Search finds programs kept only on the Desktop; middle-click Downloads or the Recycle Bin to open it; and the What's new screen opens after each update.

1.0.4

  • Glassline now comes in Spanish, German, Polish, French and Brazilian Portuguese. It follows the language of Windows; to choose another, open Settings, General, Language.
  • Add your own events to the calendar: click the clock, then the plus under the calendar. Events can repeat every week, month or year.
  • Search learns from what you open: results you pick often move to the top. A pointer resting over the results no longer changes what Enter opens.
  • Weather in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Esc closes Control Center, Today, Weather and dock stacks. File previews show photos the right way up.
  • Choose the accent colour in Settings, Appearance: the Windows colour, or one of eight of Glassline's own. In Control Center, the switch between Controls and Today is clearer and buttons that are off are easier to see.
  • Interface size: make Glassline smaller or larger on each display, in Settings, Appearance. Made for televisions and large monitors, where Windows makes everything very big. Each display keeps its own size.
  • Control Center does more: switches for Night Light and VPN, Disconnect on the Wi-Fi network you are on, a mute button for the sound, Bluetooth headphones and speakers that connect or disconnect with a click, and every app that is playing something. Right-click any quick switch to open its page in Windows Settings.
  • Search opens what you type when it is a web address or the path of a folder or file. The new button in the search field (or the Down key) lists all your apps. Store apps get Run as administrator and Uninstall, as in Windows, and you can choose the search engine in Settings, Search.
  • In the dock, a file dropped on an app opens in that app and one dropped on the Recycle Bin is deleted. Icons show the app's progress bar and status icon, an app's menu lists its recent files, and Downloads and the Recycle Bin can be taken off the dock.
  • Also new: reminders for your own events, delivered by Windows; the weather of a place in its own time; SVG pictures in Quick Look; a dot on the bell when there are new notifications; hover text on Wi-Fi, Sound and Battery; a Shortcuts page in Settings that lists every key Glassline answers to; and a setup guide that shows each thing happening, in the language you pick on its first screen.
  • More than a hundred fixes. Among them: apps that close to the tray no longer go missing from Alt+Tab; apps kept in the dock stay there after they update; games in windowed full screen are moved to fill the screen; the menu bar follows the switch between light and dark mode right away; the dock stays away over full-screen windows; the dock and Search are no longer cut off with two displays at different scaling; the menu bar no longer slips behind windows after you leave a full-screen app; apps' progress bars and status icons reach the dock; Bluetooth headphones disconnect fully and take their sound back; the Recycle Bin shows whether it is empty; with a second display, the menu bar, the dock and the panels keep their size and place when its scale, resolution or refresh rate changes; and closed panels no longer slow the PC down.

1.0.1

  • The first version in the Microsoft Store: a menu bar with the active app's menus, a dock with magnification, Search on the Windows key, Control Center and Today, the weather, file previews with Ctrl+Space, and Settings that explain every option.
  • Quit or uninstall Glassline, and the Windows taskbar and Start menu come back exactly as they were.

Not on Glassline yet?

Get it from Microsoft Store

Something not working, or something you'd like Glassline to do? Send it from Glassline Settings, Feedback, or see Support. What may come next is on the Roadmap.