[Feature request] Tray icon Favorites menu

[Crest]

I've been looking for a way to easily launch favorite skins. I have about 40 or so and it's a pain having to navigate endless submenus to open ones I like/use (which results in rarely closing them although I'd like to).

The feature request is for a simple Favorites menu in Rainmeter's tray icon beside the 'Skins' and 'Layouts' sub-menus where users could add skins as a kind of quick access bookmark. Ideally a skin could be marked as Favorite via a skin context menu, but even adding via a config ini manually could be an alternative method and leave the feature optional.

The native Windows taskbar has Jumplists which partially inspired this feature request, as they provide a way to quickly and easily pin and view recent files relevant to that particular app:

[jsmorley]

While that is an interesting idea, and one that I'm not opposed to in principle if we could figure out the "real estate" issues properly, you can do something right now that can get you in the ballpark.

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[Rainmeter]
Update=1000
DynamicWindowSize=1
AccurateText=1
ContextTitle=JSMeter\Network
ContextAction=[!ToggleConfig "JSMeter\Network" "Network.ini"]
ContextTitle2=JSMeter\System
ContextAction2=[!ToggleConfig "JSMeter\System" "System.ini"]

[MeterFavorites]
Meter=String
FontSize=10
FontColor=255,255,255,255
SolidColor=47,47,47,255
Padding=5,5,5,5
AntiAlias=1
Text=Favorites
RightMouseUpAction=[!SkinCustomMenu]

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http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/skins/rainmeter-section#Context
http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/bangs#SkinCustomMenu
http://docs.rainmeter.net/manual-beta/bangs#ToggleConfig

There is a practical limit of 15 context menu items per skin though...

[Crest]

Thanks for the reply jsmorley. Yeah, using a Favorites skin is of course a possibility. Was hoping there could be a native menu that didn't have to use up screen space

The concept was adding a submenu around here:



As for menu real estate perhaps adding of a favorite could be within the Settings submenu of a skin's context menu, marked with a checkbox.

The other idea from the OP was to instead enable the feature at first (or exclusively) via Rainmeter's config ini, eg (with dashes creating menu dividers):

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[Rainmeter]
FavoritesMenu=1

[Favorites]
Snowflower\Clock\clock.ini
Paper\Music player\Main.ini
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JSMeterVI\ClockWeather\ClockWeather.ini
FluidReader\FluidReader.ini

I think it would be in keeping with Rainmeter's minimalist design, it's something worthwhile to consider at least

[jsmorley]

I think it would be in keeping with Rainmeter's minimalist design, it's something worthwhile to consider at least

I do think it is worth considering. I kinda like it.

[jsmorley]

If you have a lot of skins in your "Skins" folder, using the context menu to find things is just unbearable. That is your point I know...

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Are you KIDDING me? And that is less than half of them! Takes me about 20 minutes of laborious clicking to get to that ZooSchedule skin I'm testing...

One other solution is to get used to using left-click on the tray icon and finding your skin in "Manage", which is a lot easier to maneuver though. You can just hit "J" to jump to the first config that starts with "J" in the list for instance, you can scroll with the mouse wheel, and in general it is just far less retarded than the context menus are.

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[jsmorley]

We have added this functionality to the latest 3.2 r2353 beta of Rainmeter.

http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=20144
http://rainmeter.net/

Thanks for the suggestion Crest.

[Crest]

We have added this functionality to the latest 3.2 r2353 beta of Rainmeter.

http://rainmeter.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=114&t=20144
http://rainmeter.net/

Thanks for the suggestion Crest.

Fantastic! Thank you so much js, just checked back here and glad to see it as a new feature.

Will make loading skins so much easier.