Crest 0.6.5
Crest knows about your other screens. Until now the notch lived on the main
display and nowhere else, which is fine right up until the monitor you actually
work on is the one to the left. There is a Display page in Settings now: it shows
the screens you have, laid out the way they sit on your desk, and lets you send
the notch to whichever one you want — or put one on every screen and stop
choosing. Unplug a monitor and the notch comes home on its own. Elsewhere, the
panels answer to a scroll, and the calendar has room for what you typed into it.
New
- A Display page in Settings. Your screens are drawn the way they are
arranged, at the sizes they really are, numbered to match Windows' own display
settings — so the one you want is the one you can point at. The mark on a
screen's top edge is the notch itself; click a screen to send it there - Put the notch on every display. One switch, and each screen gets its own —
same panels, same banners — so it is always on the monitor you are looking at.
They come and go with the screens themselves, with nothing to set up - Unplug a monitor and the notch comes home. If the screen you sent it to
isn't there, it moves to your main display until that screen is back. You never
have to pick it again: Crest remembers where you wanted it and puts it back the
moment the cable is in, which is the difference between docking a laptop and
reconfiguring one - Scroll over an open panel to move between panels, alongside the arrows at
the top. Your notifications and your reminders still scroll on their own, and
reading to the bottom of one does not tip you into the next panel
Improved
- The calendar has room for what you actually typed. At its old width the
month took more than half the card and a reminder's title was left about eleven
characters a line, so anything with a real name in it broke mid-word. The card
is wider, and the time a reminder is due now sits under its title rather than
squeezing it — which also means it is always shown, instead of appearing only
for something due in the next day - The panel's name sits in the middle of the strip at the top of each card.
The "2 of 7" counter beside it is gone: the arrows already say there is more
than one panel, nobody navigates by which numbered slot a card is in, and it was
pushing the name off centre to say so - The battery is sized to the surface it's drawn on — full size on the resting
pill, where there is room to read it properly, and a step down in the strip at
the top of each panel, where 0.6.2's larger badge had started competing with the
panel name instead of sitting quietly in the corner