Six languages
Glassline now comes in Spanish, German, Polish, French and Brazilian Portuguese. It follows the language of Windows; to choose another, open Settings, General, Language.
1.0.4
Your own events
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 that learns
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.
Celsius or Fahrenheit, and more
Weather in Celsius or Fahrenheit. Esc closes Control Center, Today, Weather and dock stacks. File previews show photos the right way up.
Your accent colour
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
- Closed panels no longer slow the PC down
1.0.5
Sent to the Microsoft Store. It reaches you as soon as Microsoft releases it.
Tray icons in the menu bar
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.
Window previews on the dock
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.
Hardware readings
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.
Translation in Search
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.
Currencies in Search
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.
More unit conversions
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.
Subscribed calendars
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.
Back up your setup
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.
Your own icons in the dock
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.
Choose what Control Center shows
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.
When an app wants you
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.
No window under the menu bar
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.
Text size and contrast
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.
Search with Everything 1.5
With Everything installed, Search finds files as fast as you type. That now holds for Everything 1.5 as well as 1.4.
The dock on a second display
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
- The What's new screen opens after each update
Earlier versions
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 StoreSomething 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.