Since ZevenOS 2.0 the Deskbar has a static menu. This has some advantages and disadvantages. The advantage is a clear structured menu that does not become confusing if installing many applications. The disadvantage is that normally you need to go to the appfinder to find newly installed applications. We now implemented a new static menu that lets you manually create a dynamic menu based on freedesktop.org .desktop files.

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Here a quick and short update on the progress we make on ZevenOS and the future plans
First of all ZevenOS 2.0 is a huge success. We are really proud and thankfull for all testers and downloaders and will continue to produce the best linux distro thats out there.
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We are proud to announce the release of ZevenOS 2.0
ZevenOS 2.0 is based upon Ubuntu karmic koala (9.10). It brings big changes like a completely new audio subsystem (pulseaudio) and the switch from HAL to Device-Kit, Magi-Kit a standard application management layer,  Remaster-Kit for easy iso remastering, Encode & SUPER Encode an all in all multimedia converting app, MAGI 2 an application launcher/installer and configuration center. The typical BeOS like look has been improved with changes to the Deskbar , Icon Theme and GTK-Theme. Disk-Manager now supports auto-detection of BFS(BeOS) partitions and allows to mount them. People the contact manager got an improved VCard filter. ZevenOS 2.0 has lots of other improvements and still is the best linux distribution with  Beos touch.

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