Show Desktop Version History

2.0.1 (10/24/24)

• Native M1 support
• New icons
• Added check for running from the expected location
• Now requires macOS 10.13 and higher

2.0 (11/20/18)

• Added close all Finder windows preference
• New stand alone menu bar application for menu mode
• All new icons, including a dark mode icon
• Full support for macOS 10.14, including dark mode
• New automatic update feature to stay up to date
• Modernized codebase, now 64 bit
• Sandboxed to support modern macOS security
• Now requires macOS 10.12 and higher

1.6.4 (4/11/06)

• Now a Universal Binary for native Intel Mac support
• Now requires Mac OS X 10.3.9
• After 'showing all' by clicking the dock icon, Show Desktop no longer stays in the foreground

1.6.3 (2/8/04)

• Added French and Japanese localizations
• Fixed a bug on some systems Show Desktop would not be set as a login item when it should be

1.6.2 (11/1/03)

• Fixed a problem under Panther where the Dock icon would appear in menu bar mode
• Uses new toolbar look on Panther in the preferences dialog
• Compiled with gcc 3.3

1.6.1 (4/16/03)

• Fixed a problem that would prevent the menu bar contextual menu from updating properly
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the Show Finder after hiding applications option to not work correctly
• Changed yet another thing that *may* fix the menu icon drawing bug (keep your fingers crossed)

1.6 (3/12/03)

• Added contextual menu to the menu bar icon. (Note: invoke via control-click, rather than right-click.)
• Fixed a bug that would prevent the Show Finder Window after hiding option to not work correctly
• Hopefully fixed a bug that would cause the menu bar icon to draw incorrectly after pushing it

1.5 (2/11/03)

• Added the user requested exclusion list. Items in this list will not be hidden when Show Desktop is used
• Added the ability to set as a login item
• Added a work-around when using a custom Dock icon and Proteron's LiteSwitch quits the Dock at startup
• Updated all the icons for a more OS X-like appearance
• Updated nib format, tests show this fixed the crash at startup if set as a login item
• Various minor changes

1.3.1 (4/22/02)

• Added a graphite desktop icon option, for all of us that are "Aqua-impaired."
• The preferences now update "live" to be more Mac OS X savvy. (Except when changing to/from menubar mode.)
• Fixed another icon scaling problem
• Fixed the control-click problem, where all other clicks would be absorbed by Show Desktop until you logged out. (I think)
• Fixed a problem that would cause Show Desktop to not show up in the menubar (or the dock) even though it was running

1.3 (4/10/02)

• To appease the masses, we've added the ability to put Show Desktop in the menubar
• Added a special menubar icon, so Show Desktop isn't picked on by other menu items for looking different in the menubar
• Added a "Toggle Visibility" section to the Dock tile menu, which allows you to toggle visibility of individual apps without switching to them
• Fixed an icon scaling problem when using the Desktop icon for the application Dock icon
• Now includes complete documentation

1.2 (4/4/02)

• Added "minimize Finder windows" option when hiding all applications
• Changed code that effected hiding Netscape in classic
• Fixed a bug that would cause some applications not to be hidden
• Minimized "Dock bounce" if Show Desktop is set as a login item
• No longer hides itself, cause that's just plain silly
• Tweaked preferences window UI & the label "(Only when no windows are open)" now disables with its parent checkbox

1.1 (4/1/02)

• Added shift-click to show all applications
• Tweaked the icon & added the desktop folder icon as an optional dock icon
• Added a Dock menu with user options

1.0 (2/19/01)

• First public release of Show Desktop