twinkle-tray

New features & improvements:

• You can now set brightness per display for time-of-day rules.

Fixes:

• Fixed last time-of-day rule always being used.
• Fixed most stutter when quickly adjusting brightness sliders in the Settings window.

New features & improvements:

• Time-of-day brightness rules now take effect immediately.
• Added a toggle for automatic update checks.

Fixes:

• Improved handling of local update file when it cannot be deleted.

New features & improvements:

• Individual displays can now be renamed (ex: "Left Monitor", "Right Monitor").
• Displays can now be re-ordered to your preference.
• You can now configure your displays to change their brightness depending on the time of day.
• The settings window has been revamped to better organize the newly added features.
• The app will now let you know in the brightness panel when an update is available.
• Updating the app is now a one-click process. When an update is available, simply click "Install" and the latest version will be installed from GitHub.
• The change log for new/current app versions are now displayed in the Updates section of the Settings.

Fixes:

• Fixed bugs related to mixed WMI + DDC/CI monitor configurations.
• Improved handling of monitor connects/disconnects.

Fixes:

• Fixed certain characters in monitor names not displaying correctly.

Fixes:

• Capped mix/max luminosity on accent colors so slider thumbs are always visible.
• Rewrote theme detection/handling to fix certain combinations of theme settings.

Fixes:

• Fixed tray not closing when putting all monitors to sleep or opening the settings.
• Updated dependencies.

Fixes:

• Fixed bug where disconnecting displays within Windows would cause connected displays to not be handled correctly.

Fixes:

• Switched the fallback theme to "dark" so that the app looks right on older version of Windows 10.

New features & improvements:

• You can now turn off your displays from the brightness panel.
• A different icon will display for built-in laptop displays. It's a bit of a guess on my part, so let me know if you find a case where it's displaying incorrectly.

New feature:

• Added a one-time welcome screen to show you how to move the app to your system tray.

Fixes:

• Made icons more consistent between the GitHub and Windows Store versions of the app.

Fixes:

• Fixed linked sliders not updating.

Improvements:

• Improved detection of monitor names.
• Improved handling of brightness when adjusting the sliders.
• Removed "Updates" section from Windows Store version of the app, so it's less confusing when updates are out of sync.

Fixes:

• Fixed broken startup for Windows Store version. (Sorry!)
• Fixed monitor names not being detected in Windows Store version.
• Fixed "Brightness update rate" setting not being detected properly in the settings UI.

Twinkle Tray now has a new icon!

Fixes:

• Just some behind-the-scenes adjustments to logging.

New features & improvements:

• Twinkle Tray is now available in the Windows Store. This required some significant code revisions, but not much user-facing has changed.

Fixes:

• Fixed potential issues when spaces were in the installed folder.

Fixes:

• Fixed Light theme icon not being used properly
• Adjusted "no monitors" language to be more descriptive.
• Adjusted slider thumb color.

New features and improvements:

• Twinkle Tray now accurately reflects your Personalization settings in Windows 10. Whether you use the Dark or Light theme, have a colored taskbar, or enabled transparency, Twinkle Tray will blend right in! The taskbar icon even switches to black if your taskbar is white. Please note that the updates are not always immediate. If you change your theme in Windows, but don't see the icon update, just click it once.

New features and improvements:

• Accent color now stays in sync with Windows
• Optimized background RAM usage.
• Styling adjustments.

Fixes:

• Fixed brightness panel showing up behind some taskbar elements.

New features and improvements:

• Brightness levels can now be normalized across displays. If your monitors have different min/max brightness levels, you can cap them to keep it even.
• You can now select the update frequency when adjusting brightness. This is useful for displays that don't take kindly to rapid changes over DDC/CI.
• The panel pop-up animation/location now matches your taskbar's position and size. Top-bar users, rejoice!

Fixes:

• Fixed panel popping up in the wrong location after a resolution change.
• Fixed monitor re-connects not being detected.
• Fixed the immediate area above the panel not being clickable.
• Various styling tweaks/fixes.

New features & improvements:

• Added an overlay (similar to volume controls) when using hotkeys or the tray icon scroll shortcut.
• Added option to disable system tray icon scroll shortcut.
• Added Vietnamese language support. (Thanks, DungGramer!)
• Localization revisions.