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Nimi Places and Nimi Visuals 20130505 released

May 5, 2013

While both projects have been updated last week, with Nimi Places receiving major update and Nimi Visuals mostly only minor fixes - this time situation could have been reversed. However, as works on one of the branches were finished and as it focused on one of important modules - both updates should be considered as important ones.

Nimi Visuals update resolves event detection issues as well as most noticeably fixes effects z-order positioning. This means that effects like e.g.: transition effects now respect z-order stack.

Nimi Places update fixes issues caused by invalid collections handling that affected e.g.: repaint operations and crashing due to invalid thread termination handling. Secondly revises shadow generating.

Nimi Visuals

May 5, 2013
  • optimized thumbnailing engine
  • revised window activate/deactivate and blur events detection
  • updated database module
  • fixed effects z-order positioning
  • fixed corral type collections capacity adjustment
  • other changes, fixes & updates

Nimi Places

May 5, 2013
  • revised shadow generating
  • updated bundled themes to match new theme specification
  • changed inline-buttons size from 35px to 32px
  • changed images loading method when generating those thumbnails
  • fixed corral type collections capacity adjustment
  • fixed corral collection returning invalid element availability
  • fixed thread termination crashing application (e.g.: when removing containers)
  • fixed container database entries not being removal when requested
  • fixed support transparency for images with indexed pallete
  • fixed drag & drop mouse position offset
  • other changes, fixes & updates

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Fact sheet

Product overview

Organizes desktop into customizable containers, displaying files and folders (from e.g.: local folders, network locations) as icons/thumbnails (generated with in-built thumbnail engine) on scrollable surfaces. In-built thumbnail engine is capable of displaying thumbnails for supported Open Documents and PSD images, but also for supported PDF files.

Supported media files can be quickly: previewed, listened, played using in-built multimedia front end - with included image viewer supporting custom shaped and circular selection, and in-line playback of audio files.

Files can be labeled, customly ordered, searched by typing. There are multiple sorting options from by name to by content (that groups into sets of matching similar files).

Other management features consist of file & folder rules, time & location based settings and more.

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Target audience

Targeted audience consists of:

  • Students whom place a lot of application shortcuts on the desktop, frequently add new files and are interested in system customization.
  • Enterprise and education sector (e.g. journalists, scientfic workers) where it is neccessary to work with many files from different directories.
  • Artists (e.g. photographers, graphics designers) whom need to keep their works collection organized and quickly accessible.

Key benefits

Can boost productivity by displaying content of selected folders on the desktop:

  • Giving quick access to files inside frequently used folders.
  • Keeping desktop uncluttered as files stay in their folders, separate context.

Can help in files management:

  • File labels allow to prioritize files (work, private etc.).
  • Support for e.g. PSD, PDF, OpenDocument thumbnailing helps to distinguish between files without opening those.
  • File & folder rules allow to sort or duplicate files between directories.
  • With PlaceTime individual containers visibility can be binded to given location and/or time.

Can be used for desktop customization and entertainment:

  • Image, video and audio quick preview feature allows to view/play files from container.
  • Individual appearance settings (theme, view mode etc.) allow to personalize containers.

About Nimi

Information about Nimi is available in About page section.

Key features

  • Organize files and folders
    • Labels
    • Sorting
    • Container name label
    • File and folder rules
    • Quick search
    • Custom ordering
    • PlaceTime
    • Sorting by content
  • Files and folders productivity features
    • Folder sub items count
    • Video thumbnails
    • Image thumbnails
    • Fast note taking
    • Media preview
    • Executable windows switching
    • Image viewer
    • Open Documents thumbnails
    • Image croping
    • PSD thumbnails
    • Internet shortcut thumbnails
    • Directory thumbnails
    • PDF thumbnails
  • Container customization
    • Smooth scrolling
    • Customize appearance
    • Custom item size
    • View modes (in Places)
  • Desktop related features
    • Custom display behaviour
    • Align containers to grid
    • Resolution changes support
    • Local shortcuts
  • Core features
    • Autoupdate
    • Relative paths support
  • Accessibility features
    • Language localization
    • Online help
  • Language localizations
    • English

Publishing guidelines

Nimi Places in text

When writting about Nimi Places in text, following general projects naming guideline should be followed:

  • Name should never be in plural or possesive.
  • Name capitalization should be unaltered.
  • Name abbreviations should consist of each word first letter, however lowercase starting words can be omitted when resulting abbreviation would consists at least 2 characters.

Internal Nimi Places project name abbreviation is NP.

Images guideline

  • Do not alter images: colour (excluding technical neccessary changes), proportions, spacing or any other aspect [of those].
  • Do not overlap images by other visual elements.
  • Align images with enough spacing (2em or greater) to other visual elements.

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