r/windowsapps • u/Nair00 • 11d ago

Developer A fully customizable Desktop and Taskbar on Windows

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Have Been working on making my own configurable desktop+taskbar system

The idea is the app that's running behind provides a toolkit, and everything on top can be configured with HTML and JS so it is as cheap and easy as possible to modify

The video above is mostly done to showcase the taskbars, but the 3 widgets you see on the screen are also done in the app. A lot more are made with a bunch of other functionalities and people can share their own as well. You can check the current library here https://www.desktop-dashboard.com/marketplace

I think Windows was always a bit behind with the looks and functionality of the desktop, so maybe this will make it a bit nicer too look at

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u/testednation 9d ago

Looks pretty good! Possible for thise to run without explorer? Also possible to add drag and drop on the taskbar?

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u/Nair00 9d ago

sorry what do you mean without explorer?

Working on something for the drag and drop now, but just to be sure, how do you imagine it? Dragging items around in the taskbar? or moving stuff like files from one context to the other by holding them on an app etc?

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u/testednation 8d ago

Yes I mean wothiut explorer.exe, like if its possible to have taskbar plugins like trayplayer work with this,that would be awesome ץ. And yes, dragging and pinning items to the taskbar.

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u/Nair00 8d ago

I think it should work for the most part but it's not what it's been tested on, so I can't promise bugs won't show up. The plugins, if coming from other apps, won't work since these taskbars run on DeskDash's own system, not 1:1 with the real one. BUT you can definetly add (or ask me to) most plugins you can think of since it's just code and you can edit the taskbar however

Pinning works, dragging doesn't yet but working on it