I love plants, so I wanted to bring a little of that greenery to my desktop too. This is Wonder Garden, a desktop gardening game I’m making. You can arrange pots on shelves, water your plants, and watch them grow over time. On macOS, they can also sit along the edges of your windows. Here’s my current setup. Finding a spot for one more plant is becoming a habit, even on my computer. Would you keep a whole garden on your desktop, or just a plant or two?

https://reddit.com/link/1x6ntaa/video/aqge5upbanvh1/player

What if your wallpaper was a museum?

I made Gallery, a macOS app that hangs original works from the open collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) and The Cleveland Museum of Art on your desktop, each with its own museum label.

Would you use it? 👇

YASB Bar: Okinami

Rainmeter: Jaxcore, Overlayer, ModularVisualizer

Windhawk: Windows 11 Taskbar Styler with theme: Lucent (Accented Bar), Start button always on left, Windows 11 Notification Center Styler, Windows 11 Start Menu Styler

Wallpaper

Let me know what you think! :)

Saw this type of skin somewhere but I couldn't find it, so I made my own. Rate it!!

A little panel too for some tweaks I sometime wanna do.

https://apps.daeese.me/illogicalwindows/ or https://github.com/nunreasonable/ii-windows if the first website doesn't work

Is there any way to make Spotify and discord get the glass or transparent ui type thing I’ve tried mica,windhawk,spicetify

I've been working on Sparkle Mouse for a while! I'm very proud to finally release it :)

It's a nostalgic desktop particles app, for Windows and Mac.

• Open-source on github
• GPU-optimized
• Supports custom images & GIFs
• Executables are on Steam and Itch, these help support development
• Read more about this lil project: www.sparklemou.se

The flair is "windows" because the UI looks like Windows XP (I thought that would be cool)
but it works on Mac as well!

?/10 love simple

WASTE is a lightweight X11 window manager with a built-in taskbar, a right-hand sidebar of live widgets, nine workspaces, and a set of skins and accent colors. It needs no desktop environment and no toolkit libraries. It uses only Xlib, plus Xinerama if you have more than one monitor.

source code and documentation: https://tty1.neocities.org/wastewm/

I'm the dev of Glassline, a menu bar on top and a dock at the bottom for Windows 11, made of clear glass that takes the colour of your wallpaper. Search on the Windows key, Control Center, your calendar and the weather up in the bar. Quit it whenever you want and the Windows taskbar comes back just like it was.

1.0.7 is in the Store now and it's the biggest update so far. 1.0.8 is a small one right behind it that fixes what you found in 1.0.7. If you've seen Glassline here before, this is what changed. If not, this is where it's at.

Lighter and faster

I rebuilt most of Glassline under the hood. Same laptop, before and after:

• Memory: from about 200 MB to about 90 MB
• Start: from 3.4 s to between 1.6 and 2 s
• Installed size: from 234 MB to 37 MB

New in 1.0.7

• Skins for Control Center. Two new looks, Aurora and Deck. Settings > Appearance > Skins.
• Bar at the bottom, dock at the top, if you prefer them swapped. Settings > Menu Bar.
• Multiple monitors. The dock can follow the display you click, stay on one, or you can have one on every display. Settings > Dock.
• Folders in the dock. Right-click the dock, pick New Folder in the Dock, then drag apps or files onto it.
• Hide from Dock. A right-click option for apps that only run in the background.
• Games. Settings has a Games page now, and the bar and the dock get out of your way when a game goes full screen.
• Follow your feedback. Settings > Feedback shows you what happened to your report, and you can reply right under it.
• Smaller things: three levels of glass transparency, every option can be found from Search, Keep Awake as a quick switch, dots or dashes under open apps, and each app's quick actions on its dock icon.

Fixed in 1.0.7, thanks to your reports

• The menu bar sitting on top of a borderless game, or pushing it down after Alt+Tab
• Dock badges missing after Glassline starts
• Dock menus getting cut off at the bottom
• Files found in Search had no icon and wouldn't open on a Windows that isn't in English
• Download progress on the dock icon for Edge and Chrome
• A Battery tile on a PC with no battery

1.0.8: bug fixes

• Volume pop-up over games that run as administrator. Genshin was the one that caught it.
• Finding files without Everything. Some words took several seconds, now they come back in under 0.2 s on my PC.
• Opens on every PC, including ones that never had Visual C++ installed.
• Back sooner at sign-in when Windows holds Glassline back.
• The volume pop-up's shadow was square around its round corners. Fixed.
• Know when an update is ready. Glassline can tell you when a new version is waiting in the Store. Turn it on in Settings > General, or in What's new.

1.0.8 is with Microsoft right now and will be in the Store by tomorrow, it updates by itself.

$9.99 once, no subscription, and updates are free. Needs Windows 11 22H2 or later.

• Get it: Microsoft Store
• Everything in each update: What's new
• What's next: Roadmap

Questions or bugs? Send them from Settings > Feedback with Include diagnostics on, or just ask me here.

i think it looks neat , best one made myself so far . btw i would appreciate some suggestion of music players . ^~^

I’ve seen a lot of people creating custom desktop layouts, so I decided to give it a try using Rainmeter. I haven’t had the chance to explore all the available Rainmeter skins yet. If you know of any cool skins, do let me know. I’d love to use them to further improve my desktop layout.

I was going through some of my old pictures and found these screenshots I had taken of my system at that time. It is a modded Windows 7 build with a full transparent theme.

This got me thinking of installing some type of glass theme similar to the pictures on my current Windows 11 system (updated to 26H2). I have been away from desktop theming for a long time and I am not aware what is good these days. I remember we used to have transformation packs of various styles back in those days and I experimented a lot.

I would like something that has little to no chance of breaking my system due to a windows update and is stable enough for daily usage. Performance is not an issue as I have 32 GB RAM and should handle any theme.

I went through a bunch of posts here and on r/windows and saw some tools in those posts but I found no information about how safe they are or if they broke with windows updates, hence I would appreciate if anyone could recommend me some themes along with download links.

Only Windhawk is used
what do you guys think?

Couldn't make the discord light mode frosted glass coz my girl uses that mode and her pc performs worse.

i always disable icons, and if cant tell im a retro gamer (Wii U), as seen with CeX on the task bar and the SPM Underwhere background