Show Desktop Version History

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.