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Pulsar 0.6.0

A big one: a desktop widget, themes, frame rates and game sessions, profiles, alerts, shortcuts and CSV recording, plus Spanish and Simplified Chinese.

New

  • Desktop widget: a panel on the desktop with sparklines, tiles or meters, at Simple, Standard or Detailed, set for all items or per item. It sits behind your windows and comes forward on Win+D, or stays on top.
  • Themes: eight built-in themes with light-taskbar variants, picked from theme cards in Settings. Save your own colors as a theme file to share.
  • Frame rate (needs the sensor service): the rate of the app in front, with frame time and 1% and 0.1% lows, and how often its monitor's picture changed. Read from Windows' own present events; nothing touches the game.
  • Games (off by default): a strip with the frame rate and your items in the corner of a game's monitor, and a summary notification when the game closes, also logged to sessions.csv.
  • Profiles: save named setups and switch between them from Settings, the menu or a shortcut.
  • Alerts (off by default): CPU or GPU temperature, low battery, and drives running out of space.
  • Keyboard shortcuts: show or hide Pulsar, toggle the widget, open system details, start or stop recording, switch profiles.
  • Record to CSV: every sample to Documents\Pulsar, one column per reading.
  • CPU power and temperature without the sensor service, from Windows' Energy Meter Interface and ACPI thermal zones where the PC provides them.
  • Graph styles and popups: area, line, bars or meter per item; popups at Simple, Standard or Detailed; translucent popups that blur what is behind them.
  • Battery item, temperature and network unit choices, and a diagnostics report in Settings → About.
  • Languages: Spanish (Español) and Simplified Chinese (简体中文), following the Windows display language.

Changed

  • Settings is regrouped into a sidebar: Overlay (Items, Layout, Theme, Popups, Widget), Readings (Sensors, Drives and network) and App (Profiles, General, About).
  • Detailed popups show every reading Pulsar has, drives are named by letter and model, and the right-click menu follows the taskbar's light or dark theme.

Upgrading

  • Settings carry over; every new option starts at its default.
  • If you use the sensor service, let the installer update it: the service changed for frame rates, and an old one reports that it needs updating.

Full Changelog: v0.5.0...v0.6.0

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