v1.5.0: Open a group just by resting the cursor on it

What's new

🖱️ Open a group without clicking

Rest the cursor on a pinned group and it opens. No click at all.

Turn it on from the new Settings window (the gear in the main window) under Open on hover. You choose how long the cursor has to rest first, Fast, Normal or Relaxed, so sweeping across the taskbar never opens anything by accident.

• It opens in about a third of a second.
• It never takes the keyboard away from whatever you were typing in.
• It closes by itself as soon as the cursor moves away.
• Clicking a group works exactly as before.

It is off by default. Windows gives no signal when the cursor rests on a taskbar button, so this needs a small watcher that starts with Windows and lives in the notification area (look behind the arrow by the clock). Switch it off from its icon or from Settings, and it is gone, startup entry included.

To open that fast, a panel is loaded in advance while the cursor is near the taskbar, and released again about twenty seconds after the cursor moves away. Away from the taskbar, only the watcher is left running.

💬 Windows' own tooltip no longer covers the panel

Resting on an icon is exactly what makes Windows show the button's name in a small bubble, and it arrived half a second after the panel, right on top of it. It is now put away as it appears, for as long as a hovered panel is open. Every other taskbar button keeps its tooltip.

🧹 Updates and uninstalls leave nothing behind

The installer now stops the watcher and any preloaded panel before touching files, so an update never trips over files in use, and uninstalling removes the whole folder and the startup entry.

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Install: download and run TaskbarGroupsFluent-Setup.exe. Already on 1.4.x? The app offers the update automatically on launch.