twinkle-tray

Fixes:

• Using hotkeys no longer removes window focus when in exclusive fullscreen games.
• Russian localization updates.

Fixes & improvements:

• Fixed intro window not displaying on first startup.
• Improved handling of brightness panel not closing when it's not the focused window.
• The Escape key now closes the brightness panel.
• Fixed a visual bug when opening the brightness panel after the overlay was visible.
• Acrylic is no longer displayed behind the overlay when Acrylic blur is turned off.

New features & improvements:

• Added support for DDC/CI displays with internal max brightness values that are not 100.
• Added full list of displays to Monitor Settings menu.
• Added option for Acrylic blur.
• Added Dutch and Croatian localizations (thanks, frozensnowy and milotype!)
• Updated localization for several languages.
• Cleaned up Settings menu items.

Fixes:

• Fixed brightness levels adjusting at different rates when using hotkeys or the scroll shortcut.
• Fixed brightness levels not adjusting to identical values when using Linked Levels with hotkeys/scrolling.
• Fixed the scrollbar being too narrow to use by dragging.
• Localization fixes for Japanese, Russian, and Chinese.

Note: Brightness normalization is now stored/handled differently than previous versions. You may need to reapply your normalization settings. Please let me know if you encounter any bugs with this new system.

New features & improvements:

• Added optional MDL2-style tray icon.
• Updated brightness panel design to better match the Windows design language.
• Added Croatian localization (thanks milotype!)
• Updated localization for French and German.

Fixes:

• Fixed empty localization strings breaking some languages.
• Fixed inconsistent handling of closed laptop displays.

New features & improvements:

• Added Chinese (Simplified) localization. Thanks, RobinPang!

New features & improvements:

• Added an overlay (similar to volume controls) when using hotkeys.
• Added option to disable system tray icon scroll shortcut. Note: this option is not currently localized.
• Added Vietnamese language support. (Thanks, DungGramer!)
• Text and localization revisions.

Fixes:

• Restored missing light theme tray icon.

Fixes:

• Added a fallback accent color if it cannot be determined.
• Fixed hotkeys locking up the app if held down.
• Updated Japanese localization. (Thanks, maboroshin!)

New features & improvements:

• Scrolling the mouse wheel over the system tray icon will adjust the brightness of all displays at once. Some trackpads are not supported.
• Added current average brightness to the tray icon tooltip.
• Polling displays will now happen before you click the tray icon. This means the panel will open quicker and with the most up-to-date information.
• Downloading app updates should now be more reliable.
• The download progress is now displayed when downloading an update.

New features & improvements:

• Updated localization for several languages.

Fixes:

• Fixed bugs related to display detection not allowing the app to start.

New features & improvements:

• There's now a configurable hotkey for "Turn off displays".
• Switched "Turn off displays" icon to something more understandable (hopefully).
• The Time Adjustments feature now uses a 12 or 24-hour clock depending on the user's OS preferences.
• Optimized display scanning process. Display detection should now be faster and more reliable.
• Improved the update process to confirm that the full executable has been downloaded.
• The app now sends some basic analytics data so I can get an idea of how people are using it. No personal user data is collected. You can disable analytics tracking from the Settings window.
• Minor adjustments to app styling.
• Added Norwegian localization. (Thanks comradekingu!)
• Various localization adjustments and improvements. (Thanks to everyone who helped!)

Fixes:

• Fixed incorrect panel positioning on some multi-monitor configurations.
• Fixed mirrored displays not setting brightness correctly.

New features & improvements:

• Added German localization (thanks CodeF0x!)
• Updated Japanese localization (thanks maboroshin!)

New features & improvements:

• Added Russian localization (thanks KovalevArtem!)
• Added French localization (thanks Toinane!)

Fixes:

• Fixed linked brightness levels not updating correctly when using both normalized brightness and mixed WMI + DDC/CI configurations.

Fixes:

• Fixed brightness normalization sliders not working on fresh settings files.

Fixes:

• Fixed several bugs related to WMI + DDC/CI setups.
• Fixed brightness normalization sliders not updating.
• Fixed time-of-day adjustments for individual monitors treating a value of 0 as 50.
• Fixed numpad number keys not being captured as hotkeys correctly.

Fixes:

• Fixed a few unlocalized strings.
• Adjusted Settings window styling.
• Updated Japanese localization.

New features & improvements:

• Twinkle Tray is now available in Japanese and Spanish. (Thanks maboroshin and jordi-7!)
  • You can manually set your language in the Twinkle Tray settings window.
  • To contribute to the localization of Twinkle Tray in more languages, see this page.
• You can now assign hotkeys to control the brightness of one or all of your displays at once.
  • A check mark next to the hotkey means it was successfully added.
• Overall app size has been trimmed down.

Fixes:

• Twinkle Tray no longer shows up in the traditional (pre-Windows 7) Alt-Tab menu.
• Removed "Minimize RAM usage" setting for now due to bugs detecting displays.
• Potential fix for app icon sometimes showing up in taskbar.