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FusionDesk has always worked fast. It doesn’t slow down even with thousands of tasks.

Its boot time was somewhat slow though. And since we added few features, like localization, to version 1.3 the start time become even longer. I did some thorough benchmarking and it took more than 4 seconds for FusionDesk to load initially. After that it was blazingly fast of course.

Well, this is not good enough. I already started on optimizing this, it is inevitable. Expect 2x to 3x faster boot time in the next update of FusionDesk.

At last, FusionDesk 1.3 has been released. As usual full list of new features can be found in the release notes.

Along the numerous smaller fixes and improvements, the most significant new features are the multilingual support, improved and reorganized user interface and new skins plus a skin editor.

Currently there are no languages except for the default ‘English’ and ‘Bulgarian’ which is there more for a proof-of-concept. The languages that will be available soon are Dutch, French, German, Spanish and Italian. If anyone wants to help us translate FusionDesk in his native language (it is easy), please contact us.

In the last month we had a great number of new customers and trial version users. Thanks to that we got a lot of suggestions for improvements and bug reports.

The latest version contains few new things but mainly fixes for serious bugs.
See a list of improvements and fixes

How many tasks can you put in FusionDesk and work with them? In the process of testing and improving the app, I created 10,000 tasks and the application remained responsive and worked reliably. That is much more that the average user will have.

Of course it wouldn’t be a really thorough test if I didn’t try with 100,000 tasks. The good news is that FusionDesk was still stable with even that much tasks, although it worked slowly.

In the end, rest assured no matter how much tasks you have, FusionDesk will meet your needs.

We are working hard on the next version of FusionDesk. And we want to hear from you.

What would you like to see in FusionDesk next?

Add your suggestions, or vote for other user suggestions here:

http://fusiondesk.uservoice.com/

After long hiatus, we released a major new version of FusionDesk.

Among the most notable new features are: new look, edit multiple tasks simultaneously, Quick Task Entry, exporting GANTT charts, and dozens of improvements and bug fixes.

Very shortly after that we released 1.2.1 with some additional fixes.

We just released FusionDesk 1.1.3 (yep, on Easter).

Few improvements and several very important fixes included, so upgrading is highly recommended.

Here is what has changed:

Improvement: Copy Task Link command added to context menu

Improvement: When a task is moved to another folder or project, the current folder will not change

Bug Fix: High CPU usage bug finally fixed. The problem was with our protection system

Bug Fix: Due Date & Tags sort were messed up. Fixed.

Bug Fix: Text search didn’t always work

Bug Fix: Renaming or deleting a ‘No Folder’ is now impossible, produced an error

Bug Fix: Thread problem fixed?!?

Bug Fix: Trying to reorder tasks when none were selected resulted in an error

I guess many are interested in what lies ahead for FusionDesk.

First let me explain how our version system works. The current version of FusionDesk is 1.1.2.

First is the major version number. In order to progress to version 2.0 major improvements will be made to justify the numbering.

Since the first version of FusionDesk was 1.0, version 1.1 means that we already have a newer minor version. In each such version there will be new features. In version 1.1 they were manual sort and ‘USB drive deployment’.

The third number, means revision. Version 1.1.2 means that there were two small updates after version 1.1.0. If only the last number is increased, this means only bug fixes are present in the new release.

So what’s next? Version 1.2.0 should be out in about a month. We plan to add a feature to edit the properties of multiple tasks at once, you just select them and edit the task pane. Even better Vista support is coming, thanks to the release of Delphi 2007, our development tool. A Hipster PDA report is coming either in 1.2 or in 1.3 version.

What do you want to see in future versions of FusionDesk? We want to hear your ideas!

FusionDesk 1.1.0 is finished and you can download it now.

There are two important new features, plus other improvements and critical bug fixes.

The first feature is that now FusionDesk supports manual sort, you decide which task is first, which is second etc. You can reorder the tasks by dragging and dropping or by moving them up and down with Ctrl + Up Arrow and Ctrl + Down Arrow. This feature is available in the Pro version only

The second feature is that FusionDesk now runs from a USB drive just fine. In the Pro version there is even a button in the Share tab of the ribbon called ‘Deploy to USB’ to make this a one click process. If you run the Sarter edition, this feature will work but you need to manually copy all the program files and application’s data files.

FusionDesk is already getting lots of positive feedback, mentions and a review.