Hello! Glad to hear you are enjoying the Gadgets! If you like raiguard's ModernGadgets, you probably already know about the Gadgets Modernizer, which will adjust the skin appearance to be a little more like his suite.First of all, thank you so much for this release @SilverAzide! I was previously using ModernGagdets by raiguard, but since that project is no longer being maintained and yours is recommended by raiguard, I feel very fortunate that it has been a very easy transition for me.
One feature that I can't seem to find in forum posts or tinkering on my own is what raiguard had called "Sidebars" in ModernGadgets. This feature would designate a specific area or column of space as dedicated to the Rainmeter skin so that it was removed from the workspace and functions such as maximizing a window would treat the dedicated column as unavailable. This meant that (with the occasional refresh of Rainmeter) I could have maximized windows on one of my screens that would respect the system monitoring tools in a suite such as your Gadgets and both would be available at a glance.
Does this functionality already exist in your suite? I know raiguard had it working relatively well by the end of ModernGadgets support lifespan, but it did sound awfully finicky to develop.
If it is available and I just can't find it, please point me in the right direction. If it's not available, it could be added to the pile of ideas for future releases if you're interested
Thanks again for this skin!
I do recall the sidebars in his suite. Those sidebars are huge pain to deal with and raiguard eventually dropped them when he released v1.8.0 of his suite due to the unfixable problems with the implementation. I liked the original Windows Vista Sidebars, so I was pretty bummed when I discovered that Rainmeter had no similar functionality.
In any case, you're right, this functionality does not exist in my suite and I have no plans to add it due to the same concerns raiguard ran into. However, there are a few utilities out there that might work for you:
FancyZones (Microsoft PowerToys, https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/fancyzones)
Aerial (https://chrisandriessen.nl/aerial)
WSU (https://forum.rainmeter.net/viewtopic.php?t=18211, or https://sourceforge.net/projects/workspaceutilities/)
Desktop Coral
etc...
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