LauncherPro Update Brings New Dock Features for Plus Users
LauncherPro is moving right along as Federico promised, and the most recent update (versioned 0.8.0.0) brings with it a host of bugfixes and a cool new feature for those who’ve purchased the Plus version. Federico’s calling it Dock Popups and it looks really cool just from looking at a screenshot of it. You can set up certain dock icons to present you with a popup window whenever you swipe up on it. For now, he’s only included two popups – unread SMS and missed calls (both of which will show the obvious information and allow you to act upon it there) – but has promised to deliver more soon (and we know he’s a man of his word.) Take a look below for the full list of changes before heading on to the Android market (or his website) to update.
For all users:
- Fixed force close issues when setting the homescreen grid rows/columns to 1.
- Fixed the problem where increasing grid size with auto-fit would make it hard to move items to the bottom right area of the grid.
- Changed folders to always open full-screen regardless of the grid size.
For Plus users only:
- Fixed a force close issue with the Friends widget.
- Fixed the Friends widget not being able to post comments to Facebook.
- Added an option for the Calendar widget to set the week to start on Monday instead of Sunday (after releasing the update, I found a glitch where busy days are marked wrong with this setting on, will be fixed later today in 0.8.0.1).
- New Feature: Dock Popups! A perfect complement for dock notifications and dock swipe actions, the new dock popups give you quick access to information without leaving LauncherPro. In this release I’ve included two popups: Missed Calls, and Unread SMS. More popups will come in future updates. To enable them, long-press on the desired dock icon, choose “Swipe gesture action”, then “Show Popup…” and choose the popup. Now when you swipe that icon up, you’ll get a popup showing you the selected information. Both of these popups mark all items as read/viewed when you open them, so they’ll automatically clear the dock notification bubble. You can click on an item (SMS or call) to open it in their respective apps.