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Crest 0.6.7

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@github-actions github-actions released this 17 Aug 05:40
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The screenshot you just took, already in your hand. Take a screenshot and the
usual next move is to go and find it — open the folder, sort by date, hope it is
the top one. Crest watches the folders Windows saves them to, drops the
thumbnail down the moment one lands, and keeps the last two dozen on a card you
can drag straight into whatever you needed it for. There is a keyboard shortcut
to summon the notch now, too, and a set of controls for how big it is, how round
its corners are and how fast it moves — the notch can be your size rather than
the one it shipped at.

New

  • A Screenshots panel. The last two dozen captures, newest first, from the
    folders Windows already puts them in — Pictures\Screenshots and
    Videos\Captures, wherever OneDrive has moved them to. Drag one into another
    app, click to open it, right-click to show it in its folder. Crest only reads
    them: nothing is copied, moved or deleted, so the panel simply rolls forward as
    you take more
  • The capture drops down as you take it. A thumbnail on the banner, so you
    know it worked without leaving what you were doing — and hovering it opens the
    panel, which is usually one drag away from being finished with it
  • A keyboard shortcut that summons the notch. Set it in Appearance: click the
    box, press the keys. It opens the notch wherever you are and closes it again if
    it is already open — the one way in that does not involve the mouse. It needs
    Ctrl, Alt, Shift or Win with it, because a shortcut without one would take that
    key away from every text field on your PC
  • The notch can be your size. Four new sliders under Appearance → Shape: the
    resting pill's width and height, the corner radius of every surface Crest
    draws, and the width of the expanded panels. Nothing here resizes a window or
    moves a panel's contents around — it is the same notch, drawn at the size you
    want it
  • And your speed. Animation speed, from half to double, and how long the
    notch waits after your cursor leaves before it collapses — the one number
    people ask for in both directions

Improved

  • The background opacity slider does something now. It stopped at 60%, and
    60% over a dark desktop is a change of less than half a shade out of 255 — the
    control had no visible range at all on the machines this app actually runs on.
    It goes down to 25% now, where the notch is still a legible card (the text,
    tiles and edges never fade) on a much fainter wash
  • The settings window itself is always solid. It was the only surface visibly
    responding to that slider, so dragging it appeared to adjust the window you
    were looking at rather than the notch it names — and it is the one window in
    Crest made of paragraphs, which is the exact thing a wallpaper showing through
    makes harder to read