Things are progressing more slowly than I had hoped on the new version due to some consulting work I've been doing on my off hours.  However, I have been making some progress and wanted to post a few screenshots of some of the new features.

Here's the new system tray context menu showing the oft requested hide on start and close options. The "Hide On Close" function was a default, non-configurable behavior in one of the previous versions of HappyFish but caused confusion among some users who had not seen this feature before.  Adding it as an option (that is off by default) should strike a good balance.  "Hide On Startup" is another one that I'd received several requests for (and wanted myself).

Another feature that I and other users wanted was a way to protect items from being deleted - whether automatically or manually.

I've also included a few other options to spruce up the interface and make it more user friendly like including favicons in the feed list.  These turn out to be useful visual cues when you're scanning along list of feeds.  As always though you can still click anywhere on the feed list and begin typing the name of the feed to move the focus to that feed.

Expanded ID3 tag editing options is another frequently requested feature - and it like the others is a good one.  I've also included the ability to apply ID3 and filename rewriting settings as well as automatic deletion preferences globally. 

Download control has also been improved with more feedback from the download panel.  In the new version the transfer rate and percent complete are displayed in the list.  I've also added the ability to reorder queued items.  Dragging and item to the top of the queue will make sure it is given the next open slot for download if you've reached the maximum simultaneous download settings.  You can also force any item to start downloading even if you've reached your set limit.  I've also improved the responsiveness of HappyFish to canceling stuck downloads.

So that's just a few of the changes along with many under the hood improvements to increase the overall stability of HappyFish.  Although I still have more to do the work is progressing.  I don't really have a timetable on a release of the next version but I think the improvements I've got in store will be worth the wait. 

Thanks for using HappyFish.