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Stardock a sorti aujourd'hui publiquement la version 2.1 de son logiciel DesktopX.
Je rappelle pour ceux qui ne le sauraient pas encore, que DesktopX permet de personnaliser le bureau de Windows en activant le support d'objets variés, de simples racourcis animés aux calendriers, surveilleurs de la mémoire et de la charge CPU, voire indicateur météo et autres.


La liste des nouveautés est plutôt longue :

• Registered users can now export their objects as programs (.EXE) that can run on any computer that has DesktopX installed. These are called widgets and run like any other program.
• All users of DesktopX (including the free version) can run widgets created with DesktopX.
• DirectGUI 2.1 - much more seamless painting of objects and widgets.
• Objects covered by a window are not drawn saving CPU (this is a big deal - you can now have an animated desktop that uses virtually no CPU when it's covered up by windows).
• User Mode greatly enhanced - objects have a "close" menu item now on them when running in user mode.
• Dragging common images to the desktop creates a thumbnail of that image on your desktop (very cool - you can drag a .JPG file to your IconX enhanced desktop and instead of it having the standard .JPG icon it will be a thumbnail of that image).
• Users can now include custom files to their exported object (in the summary page).
• Can now include custom fonts with an object, DesktopX will auto-install them.
• DesktopX VBScript/Javascript support greatly enhanced with a large number of new DX based APIs to make use of.
• Scripts can control the z-order of an object (you can command your object to go on top at different times)
• DesktopX objects can now act as "Appbars". The Star bar is an example of an appbar. Appbars can be auto-hide, always visible, or normal. See included Longhorn theme example with mode button at top right.
• IconX enhanced desktop icons now respond to same commands as regular icons (such as rename, copy, move, etc.)
• DesktopX objects now use 1/3rd as many GDI objects as DesktopX 2.0 and before.
• Developers can control object visibility from scripts independent from those objects being classified as "pop ups"
• Tons of tweaks and fixes to improve performance, stability, and compatability.

Vous pouvez consulter un historique plus détaillé ici, et télécharger la version gratuite sur cette page.
Des centaines d'objets et de thèmes sont disponibles sur ces pages :
http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=3
http://www.wincustomize.com/skins.asp?library=31