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v1.2.0 — Settings find a home, the ticker sheds a deck

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@doughknee doughknee released this 30 Jul 20:04
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Settings got a proper home, the ticker got simpler, and Home now shows you what's actually happening instead of what you picked once and forgot.

✨ New

One nav across settings. Home · App · Ticker · Account · Updates sits at the top of all five screens, so moving between them is one click from wherever you are. Opening Customize now lands you on App rather than Ticker.

An Updates page. Checking your version and seeing what shipped used to be two clicks apart — the updater buried under themes and window settings, the release notes on their own page. They're one screen now, with the changelog underneath the update button. "What's new" still lives in the account menu; it just brings you here.

The account menu does more. Settings and Add widget are one click from your name, Support is now Get help, and the menu shows your username instead of your full name.

💄 Improvements

Home shows the interesting things. Each widget used to make you pick up to five items to preview — and then showed those same five forever, no matter what moved. That's gone. Home now surfaces your biggest movers, live games, newest headlines and closest markets automatically, and updates as they change. Nothing to set up.

The ticker is one row. Two- and three-row layouts, per-row source assignment and the row editor are all gone; if you had multiple rows, everything on them now shares a single row. It was the most confusing part of setup for what it gave back, and it'll return in a better form.

A tidier window on macOS. Scrollr now uses the system title bar properly — the traffic lights sit level with the toolbar, and the window chrome is a single row rather than two stacked ones.

A quicker tray menu. Putting a widget on the ticker is one click instead of a submenu.

The sidebar toggle moved next to the back and forward arrows, where the rest of the navigation lives.

🔧 Under the hood

Setting up Scrollr from a fresh clone now works on the first try — several of the generated config files couldn't actually start the app, and make needed Windows. Nothing you'd notice unless you build it yourself.