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Nimi Places 20260812 released

Nimi Places 20260812 adds hybrid text rendering with limited symbols and icons (ideographs) support, including those rendering in color.

Today, we are releas­ing the lat­est build of Nimi Places (20260812), which introduces hybrid text rendering ​and limit­ed support ​for rendering symbols ​and icons (ideographs), including those rendering ​in color.

Rendering ideographs ​in color requir­es either operating system support ​or a compatible CBLC/CBDT color font.

Color symbols ​and icons (ideographs) 🌸 ​in Nimi Places

Rendering text with color symbols ​and icons (ideographs) requir­es either:

  • operating system support,
  • or the pre­sence of a color font file with CBLC/CBDT tables named "colorIdeographs.ttf" ​in the applica­tion directory.

Hybrid text rendering itself is a multi-method text draw­ing approach, with rendering methods chosen ​in advance depending ​on the needs of the draw opera­tion. While multi­ple text rendering engin­es were implement­ed during develop­ment, it was ultimately decid­ed to utilize only those that align with legacy text rendering.

Relat­ed to text rendering, local­ization support has also been improv­ed; the UI text-ellipsis func­tion now handles surrogate pairs ​and modifiers, as well as strips unnecessary whit­espace charact­ers.

Another addi­tion is limit­ed dark mode support. Current­ly, only managed con­text menus ​and notifica­tion area icons adapt to dark mode.

Last­ly, this build brings multi­ple fixes, alongside stabi­lity ​and performance improvements.

Nimi Places 20260812

  • Added con­ditional delay­ing con­text menu items selec­tion painting ​on rapid selec­tion rapid changes.
  • Added explicit handling of background erase requests ​for con­trols us­ing text rendering.
  • Added hybrid text rendering.
  • Added limit­ed dark mode support.
  • Added limit­ed support ​for rendering color symbols ​and icons (ideographs) ​in text.
  • Added limit­ed support ​for rendering symbols ​and icons (ideographs) ​in text.
  • Added throt­tling mouse wheel scrolling of settings window list.
  • Added wrapping around, when navigating con­text menu via keyboard.
  • Changed synchronous delay­ed batch icon repainting ​in settings window list to instant asynchronous.
  • Optimized con­tainer window background surface clearing ​on accent color change.
  • Optimized con­text menu selec­tion updat­es to use direct DC painting instead of invalida­tion.
  • Revised ​and unified notifica­tion area icon relat­ed code.
  • Fixed applica­tion could terminate ​on error, before handling prompt to save error report, due to aborting threads.
  • Fixed con­tainer accent color not being updat­ed ​on global accent color change, due to inv­ersed con­ditional ​for checking if con­tainer uses custom accent color.
  • Fixed con­text menu sub-menu sole item being select­ed, even if is not enabled.
  • Fixed con­text menus not being dis­posed, due to invalid con­ditional.
  • Fixed crash ​on older operating systems, not us­ing wallpaper, due to not ensuring that got wallpaper path before process­ing it.
  • Fixed crashing ​on older operating systems since build 20260705, due to operating system version check before calling API was two versions lower than first operating system version that support­ed it.
  • Fixed crashing, when attempting navigating to con­text menu sub-menu us­ing keyboard.
  • Fixed hex con­version logic accepting A-Z range instead of only A-F range.
  • Fixed invalid text place­ment ​for generic extension icons.
  • Fixed multi­ple same fonts could be creat­ed during initial­ization, due to optim­ization pre­venting us­ing cache ​at initial­ization stage.
  • Fixed not ensuring that category header ​for first item under given category ​in settings window list is visible, when scrolling given item into view.
  • Fixed not us­ing integer pre­cision ​for draw­ing colorized text with shadow, since build 20260705, due leaving code ​for early hybrid text rendering.
  • Fixed not us­ing RTL supporting con­trols con­sistent­ly.
  • Fixed process­ing whole URL during its scheme resolving, due to not us­ing limiter.
  • Fixed resolving file name without extension being trimmed to first dot not last.
  • Fixed settings window list being scroll­able even if not need­ed.
  • Fixed settings window list could be scrolled over us­ing scrollbar due to incorrect maximum calcula­tion.
  • Fixed settings window list view could flicker during painting, due to uncondition­ally draw­ing background, before main composi­tion.
  • Fixed shell menu attached menu not being released, due to reference not being resolv­ed before checking if assign­ed.
  • Fixed text ellipsis func­tion ​for UI allow­ing more charact­ers than the request­ed limit.
  • Fixed us­ing con­trol color instead of menu color, when computing con­trastful con­text menu text foreground color.
  • Fixed window con­trols overlap­ping with larger fonts.
  • Remov­ed con­tainer item renaming support ​for changing extensions ​for con­sistent dot support ​in con­tainer item names.
  • Optimized calcula­tion used ​for estimating box height ​for given number of lin­es us­ing given font.
  • Optimized con­tainer item renaming.
  • Optimized draw­ing text with colorized shadow to use single image buffer ​and graphics instance.
  • Optimized parallel initial­ization by load-balancing long-running tasks to pre­vent worker thread starva­tion ​and reduce start­up latency.
  • Optimized settings window local­ization caching ​for rules.
  • Revised pictogram button painting ​and resources manage­ment.
  • Revised text ellipsis func­tion ​for UI to handle surrogate pairs ​and modifiers, as well as strip unnecessary whit­espace type charact­ers.
  • Inlin­ed rectangles used ​for rendering A4 paged con­tent into func­tions.
  • Other changes, updat­es ​and fixes.
  • Switched con­trol refr­eshing ​for applic­able con­trols from synchronous UI thread invoca­tion to direct invalida­tion ​and redraw.

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Organizes desktop into con­tain­ers, dis­play­ing files ​and fold­ers.

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Organizes desktop into customiz­able con­tain­ers, dis­play­ing files ​and fold­ers from chosen loca­tions as icons ​and thumbnails, that can be shown only ​on specific condi­tions (time, loca­tion ​or foreground window title).

Support­ed audio, video ​and image files can be pre­view­ed us­ing in-built multi­media front-end — with image viewer supporting custom shaped ​and circular selec­tion.

Files ​and fold­ers can be labeled, searched by typing, manu­ally arranged as well as automatic­ally sort­ed.

Aside from con­tain­ers those can be also automatic­ally managed us­ing rules.

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Key benefits

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

  • Provid­es quick access to frequent­ly accessed fold­ers.
  • Maintains orga­nization as files ​and fold­ers stay ​in their original loca­tions.

Can help ​in files ​and fold­ers management:

  • Labels can help ​in prioritizing given files ​and fold­ers.
  • Rules allow to automatic­ally perform chosen action ​on files ​and fold­ers matching given condi­tion.
  • Contain­ers can be dis­play­ed only ​on chosen set of condi­tions — loca­tion, time ​or active foreground window title.

Can be used ​for desktop custom­ization ​and entertain­ment:

  • Support­ed image, audio ​and video formats can be pre­view­ed us­ing in-built multi­media front-end.
  • Support­ed con­tain­ers appearance is personaliz­able.

Target audience

Target­ed audience con­sists of:

  • Students whom use 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, scientific workers) whom work with many files from different loca­tions.
  • Artists (e.g. photographers, graphics design­ers) whom need to keep their works collec­tion organized ​and quick­ly accessible.

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Nimi Places in text

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Nimi is a long‑running initiative that started in 2008, focusing on scientific work and unconventional software engineering aimed at creating long‑lasting, unobtrusive, and minimal solutions.

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