Changelog

Thaw 3.0.0-alpha.14

Released
Runs on
macOS 27
Build
125
Credited
+3

Layout gets a pop-out window and undo for every edit, search becomes Floe's launcher, and Settings fills its gaps.

New

  • Pop Out Editor (work in progress). Opens Layout in a window with every item in a list, a filter, an editor for the selected item and full keyboard control.
  • Every Layout edit can be undone, with ⌘Z anywhere on the Layout page.
  • Drag down the Layout window's checkboxes to show or hide several items at once. A dragged row opens a gap where it will land, and the list scrolls at its edges.
  • Trackpad taps for Layout and sliders. A drag taps as it crosses into another section and when it lands, and the spacing and item size sliders tap at their defaults.
  • The current Space in the menu bar, in Displays › Spaces.
  • Layout warns when items don't fit or macOS hides Focus, with a one-click fix for each. Reported by @JosefGvirt in #1477.
  • The widget icon shows real readings and Bluetooth audio, in a larger size. Suggested by @joaofrgomes in #1378.
  • Thaw 2 settings are back: Always Hidden only and inline notch overflow in the Thaw Bar, Settings without a Dock icon, and log size and retention. Your Thaw 2 choices carry over.
  • Settings that only worked through links have rows in Visibility and Layout.
  • Export Logs zips logs and capture samples for a bug report, in Troubleshooting.
  • Privacy shows the Notifications permission.
  • Displays lists displays that aren't connected, and can forget them.
  • Hold Option on Capture Hidden Items to retake every picture.
  • Release notes can stay closed after an update, in Privacy.

Changed

  • Search is Floe's launcher, grouped by section, with Extended and Compact layouts in Visibility. Detailed and Large become Extended.
  • Settings search goes to the row and finds each module's switch.
  • Extras is now Modules.
  • Segmented choices and the tabs in Settings are the system's own control. The selection is a glass lens you can press and drag across the choices.
  • One name for each section: Visible, Hidden and Always Hidden.
  • The Thaw Bar has its own switch again, and so does double-clicking Thaw's icon for Always Hidden. By @malash in #1339.
  • Apply to All Displays asks first.
  • Reset Thaw clears everything but your layout and profiles, and Reset permissions forgets the files you picked.
  • Thaw reads a busy menu bar faster, and profiles and looks follow a Space switch sooner.
  • The Thaw Bar drops in from the menu bar.
  • Corners sliders show their value, Square, a percentage or Round, and match the other sliders.
  • Switch to Reduced mode from Troubleshooting, where Thaw runs as one icon that hides whole apps.
  • The experimental reorder editor is gone.
  • Zoom is off for now. ⌘+, ⌘− and the Zoom menu are gone until a zoomed Settings window stops ignoring clicks. Reported in #1244 and #1265.
  • What's New shows its Stable, Beta and Alpha tabs beside the title.

Fixed

Layout and items

  • The Layout window's green button zooms it instead of going full screen, where only quitting Thaw got you out.
  • The widget icon hides again with the Native hiding method. It stayed on the menu bar in Hidden and Always Hidden.
  • Native hiding starts again when a hidden app has no entry in System Settings › Menu Bar, such as one you removed. Reported by @SebastienBn in #1513.
  • Native hiding hides your apps again when macOS puts its list back right after Thaw changed it. Thaw used to leave every app on the menu bar with a warning. Reported by @macdaddy1944 in #1501.
  • An app you switched back on in System Settings says so in Layout, instead of saying macOS won't let Thaw switch it off.
  • Undo brings a moved group back whole again. It used to restore only the batch's ungrouped items.
  • Live item pictures update again when their left part changes, like right-aligned text getting shorter on an item that keeps its width.
  • Shift and the arrow keys extend the selection down the Layout window's list, and a Shift-click no longer selects rows a filter hides.
  • Reordering or moving a group, Move to and Move All can be undone, and so can a same-section drag in a list with groups or folders.
  • A read-only Layout window no longer groups the selection.
  • The order you drag the menu bar into is pinned, even when an app is slow to answer Thaw at that moment.
  • Hiding an item from Layout no longer sends Visible items to Always Hidden after Thaw restarts.
  • Items with a countdown, such as Raycast's calendar, stay put. Reported by @jasonericsiegel in #1489.
  • Items no longer move at launch when Thaw can't read the whole bar in time, and your saved layout comes back once the bar settles.
  • Hidden items no longer collapse right after you point at them.
  • Item pictures are no longer cut off, including on Macs with a taller menu bar, and f.lux gets its picture.
  • Capture Hidden Items is faster and counts items Native hiding parks. By @Belligerently in #1488.
  • Layout says when a drag didn't land, and refused moves point to the right setting.
  • Unresponsive apps show an hourglass, and switched-off system items show their own symbol.
  • Control-click opens a row's menu in the Layout window's list, as a right click does.
  • A selection you clear or change right after a move stays that way instead of jumping back to the moved items.
  • Two same-width items of one app can no longer show each other's picture.
  • An item with a changing title is recognized after its app restarts, even when the old copy was still quitting.
  • Capture Hidden Items retakes a picture that is cut off at its left edge, and a cut-off picture can no longer replace a complete one.
  • Pictures of hidden items survive a restart. Restarting Thaw could lose all of them. Reported by katla on Discord.
  • Layout keeps your selection when a move is refused or changes nothing.
  • A chosen icon now shows. Choose Icon kept showing Thaw's picture of the item. Automatic goes back to the picture.
  • Items that show up late after a restart go back to their place instead of staying next to Thaw's icon. By @Omoeba in #1531.
  • Opening a hidden item no longer opens the item next to it, and works the first time after Thaw starts. By @Omoeba in #1531.
  • Opening a hidden item moves the pointer only when it has to, and clicking an item is faster. By @Omoeba in #1531.

Thaw Bar

  • App menus keep their place when Always Hidden opens in the Thaw Bar, and Hidden no longer stays expanded behind the panel.
  • One click on Thaw's icon works when double-click opens Always Hidden and macOS's double-click speed is slow. Reported by @bortolatto-creator in #1492.
  • A long click on a Thaw Bar item opens it, and the arrow keys move the highlight at once.
  • The preview shows what the bar shows, and each display uses its own hover and scroll setting.
  • The Thaw Bar no longer resizes and repositions itself many times a second while the pointer moves over it.

Spaces and profiles

  • The profile preview shows what your items look like, with Layout's pictures for items in the menu bar and symbols for Wi-Fi, Clock and other system items.
  • Renaming or duplicating an old profile no longer starts turning Always Hidden off on the next apply or Space switch.
  • Undo is cleared when a profile applies, so ⌘Z can't write one profile's old order into another's layout.
  • Spaces settings stay after Thaw quits, and a Space's own look survives a logout.
  • Editing the look in a Space with its own look changes that Space.
  • Applying a profile keeps shortcuts added since it was saved, and a new one saved with Always Hidden off turns it off. Older profiles still only turn it on.
  • Export All includes scripts and shortcuts, and a profile's preview lists everything it changes.
  • Undoing a new or duplicated profile keeps the profile you're on. By @Belligerently in #1487.
  • Thaw's list of Spaces updates when a display connects or disconnects.
  • Switching Spaces on a second display right after the first is no longer missed.
  • A Space indicator that could not start is fully turned off, so turning it on again starts clean.
  • Reset Thaw also forgets a Space choice made before macOS listed that Space.
  • Profile previews show current item pictures after the layout changes.
  • Spacing set with a thaw:// link is saved to your profile, so applying it no longer puts the old spacing back.
  • thaw:// reports every per-display setting. A disconnected display now lists its item size, spacing and Always Hidden only choice, and the Thaw Bar location lists all five places.
  • Use Template copies the Always Hidden only choice too.
  • A profile applied as Thaw starts keeps its order when some items show up late. By @Omoeba in #1531.
  • With Compact search showing only its field, keys no longer act on a row you can't see. The arrow keys move the cursor in the field.
  • A wrong letter no longer clears what you typed, the arrow keys keep working after the menu bar changes, and recent items show once.
  • A failed move from search stays up and is read aloud.
  • A row is listed once while its item is mid-move, so the arrow keys don't stall on it.
  • Return and the arrow keys are left to a Japanese or Chinese input method while it is composing text.
  • A rename ends when its item leaves the search results, instead of blocking keys until Escape.
  • Tab reaches the search buttons when there is no other section to jump to.

Settings

  • A search result that jumps to a row which isn't showing no longer flashes that row later.
  • Hide the menu bar opens Displays on its Spaces tab.
  • Each permission row has its own search target, so the jump lands on the one you picked.
  • Log rotation rows are left out of search while diagnostic logging is off, since the rows aren't there.
  • The Swap Bar stays off after an upgrade from a version that called it the Transport Bar.
  • Simple Mode mentions double-clicking Thaw's icon only while that shortcut is on.
  • Show Samples turns on as soon as a capture sample is saved.

Other

  • The widget icon is redrawn only when what it shows changes, which cuts the Widgets module's memory and processor use.
  • With the Native hiding method, Thaw no longer watches every click and drag for a press on the clock. Only Standard needs that.
  • Turning "Show release notes after an update" off keeps the window closed after Thaw updates.
  • A Mac without a battery draws its widget icon in the menu bar's own ink instead of as a fixed grey picture.
  • Reset Thaw also puts back the widgets switch, the recording alert position and Remember last search, and forgets what it checked about your allowed apps.
  • The Widgets and Scripts windows open at full size.
  • The capsule border comes back after the Mac wakes.
  • Reduce Motion keeps short fades and no longer pauses the notch panel.
  • Setup names the permission it's waiting for and what you give up without Accessibility.
  • Diagnostic logs no longer warn on every layout pass.
  • Reset Thaw no longer brings old item pictures back when a window opens right after it.
  • Setup's checkmark bounces when you grant a permission, not each time the page opens.
  • Turning diagnostic logging off no longer leaves a new log file open.
  • Restarting Thaw keeps saved item pictures it hadn't loaded yet.
  • Show Emoji & Symbols in Thaw's Input menu opens the viewer. Reported by @Macador in #1518.
  • What's New opens on the version you have installed, not the newest release.

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