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Make your desktop icons stand out by adding a colored box beneath them! For all people who found the ✨perfect wallpaper✨

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BetterDesktop

Make your desktop icons stand out by adding a colored box beneath them!

Why Should I Use BetterDesktop?

BetterDesktop was created to increase the contrast of the icons on your desktop. Lost of people have known the feeling of finding the ✨perfect wallpaper✨, just to have it make the desktop icons hard to see. That is why I created BetterDesktop!

Features

  • Render a colored box below desktop icons, making them pop out.
  • Customize the box's color and alpha.
  • Start the app on system startup.
  • Group icons into neat rectangles for an organized look.
  • Minimize to system tray on close.
  • System tray icon to exit the app or show the window.
  • Shift + exiting app with ❌ button will always quit the app, regardless of the system tray setting.

Screenshots

The main functionality of the app where dekstop icons stand out with a translucent box below it. There are 3 icons on the desktop: Signal, Blender, and Godot. The icons on the desktop stand out with a translucent, colored box below it. The box is a blue color. There are 3 icons on the desktop: Signal, Blender, and Godot. The icons on the desktop being grouped into rectangles. The icon on the left is lower than the others, with a translucent rectangle encompassing all 3 icons on screen. The main UI of the app. It has a toggle button and a settings button on the right. On the left is the logo for the app.

Platforms

BetterDesktop only supports Windows. It has been on windows 10 and 11. The app only works with a single monitor.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2023 Moonstone Studios

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.

Open Source Licenses

See the UsedCodeLicences.txt file to see all of the open source code's licenses used in this app.

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