Changelog.

A signed installer, tray icons that stay after a restart, and a faster auto-hide taskbar.

Improvements

• The installer and the app now carry a code signature from Nair Development Hub S.R.L.
• Help & feedback: a support message now includes a summary of your setup (displays, taskbar, tray apps and widgets) with the log.

Fixes

• Fixed: A tray icon that its app adds only once, when the app starts, was missing from the DeskDash tray. DeskDash now remembers it across restarts.
• Fixed: An auto-hide taskbar could take up to 30 seconds to come back after you left a fullscreen app.

Move the edit panel where you like, and fixes for restarts and shorter taskbars.

New

• Move the edit panel: in edit mode, drag the panel with Add widgets and Settings to a corner or to the middle of an edge. It snaps into place and stays there.
• New widgets can now use the clipboard permission: a widget can keep a list of the text and pictures you copy and put one back when you click it. The list stays in memory only, and a widget that reads the clipboard cannot have internet access.

Improvements

• The edit panel has a Help & feedback button.
• The edit panel names each display by its monitor model, without the long id.

Fixes

• Fixed: When DeskDash restarted itself (after Explorer crashed, after the app stopped answering, or from Restart in safe mode), Windows showed "Windows cannot find ''" and DeskDash stayed closed.
• Fixed: A taskbar with its Length set to part of the edge cut off its apps on a narrower display. It now grows to show them, up to the full edge.

SDK/Authors

• A share Length is a minimum, not a clip: a fill segment or a stretched center segment sizes to its content between the share and the whole edge, and keeps its alignment (data-dd-bar-share).
• New dd.clipboard API: the clipboard permission reads a host-held history of text and images and restores items by id; clipboardWrite adds writeText and writeImage. Both are for grid widgets only, restore and writes need a real click, and a manifest cannot combine clipboard with http, links or feeds.
• WebRTC is gone from widgets: RTCPeerConnection and the other RTC objects are undefined, because WebRTC could reach the network past the sandbox. All widget network goes through dd.http.

Small improvements across the board.

Improvements

• In edit mode, the taskbar keeps working: its panels, app menus, Quick Settings and notification buttons open as usual.
• Auto-hide taskbars also show when the cursor rests near the screen edge for a moment, not only at the last pixel. This helps most on an edge next to another display.
• Auto-hide taskbars hide as soon as the cursor leaves the taskbar, not the empty space beside it.
• Claude Code usage finds Claude Code by itself when its folder setting is blank: on Windows, in a custom folder (CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR), or in WSL.

Fixes

• Fixed: With the Windows taskbar moved to the top or a side, a DeskDash taskbar on the same edge left a gap where the Windows taskbar was. It now sits at the screen edge.
• Fixed: The Windows taskbar could flash into view every few seconds next to a DeskDash taskbar. DeskDash now hides it again at once.
• Fixed: When a firewall, antivirus or VPN rule blocked DeskDash from the internet, license activation, the store, widget installs and Support asked you to check your connection. They now say that a rule blocks DeskDash.
• Fixed: Claude Code usage limits stayed empty when Claude Code keeps its files in a custom folder (the CLAUDE_CONFIG_DIR variable).
• Fixed: A Claude Code usage limit that had reset still showed its old percent until Claude Code ran again. It now shows 0%.

SDK/Authors

• In edit mode a bar keeps its pane, dd.bar.appMenu, dd.bar.strip.move, the Quick Settings and notification taps and the cursor-gated calls. Earlier apps refuse them there with PERMISSION_DENIED.
• bar.thickness may be up to 256 logical px (was 128), room for hover labels beside a side bar; the store sets app 0.5.1 as the floor for such a bar. Auto-hide counts the painted strip and the capture regions a bar reports as the bar, not its transparent headroom.
• dd.claudeUsage.status: a blank folder setting is now found by the host, and the new wslStopped flag marks a snapshot from a WSL distro that is not running.

Hide anything in a widget, shorter taskbars, and Bluetooth battery levels.

New

• Edit widget: right-click a widget, choose Edit widget..., and hide anything you don't want to see in it. Show them back from the widget's settings.
• Edit taskbar: the same for your taskbar, from its right-click menu. While you edit, drag the grips on the taskbar to change its size and length, and drag the taskbar along the edge to move it.
• Shorter taskbars: Taskbar settings have a Length (the full edge, fit to content, or part of the edge) and an Alignment (left, center or right).
• Bluetooth battery levels: the Bluetooth list in Quick Settings shows the battery level of each connected device, AirPods and Beats included.

Improvements

• Widget and taskbar settings put the switches that show or hide parts of a widget together, in a Show group.
• The widget right-click menu has Edit widget... in place of Hide widget. To hide a whole widget, use its eye button in edit mode.
• The Bluetooth list in Quick Settings updates as soon as a device connects or disconnects, and game controllers and keyboards get their own icon.
• Support... in the tray menu opens a window in DeskDash instead of the website. Leave Attach my log ticked to send the app's log with your message, which helps find the cause of a problem. View log shows what the log holds.

Fixes

• Fixed: A taskbar that restarted after a crash came back with the settings it had when DeskDash started, not your current ones.
• Fixed: Clicking a DeskDash window, such as Settings or a dialog, on the taskbar did not bring it to the front.
• Fixed: Widgets sometimes stayed on top of your apps, often after a screenshot with the Snipping Tool, until you clicked a window.

SDK/Authors

• Parts: a boolean setting can add "part": "<id>". Mark the elements of that part with data-dd-part="<id>" and the SDK hides them while the setting is off, with no code. Part settings show first in the settings dialog, in its Show group.
• Users can hide any element of your widget with Edit widget...: the SDK stores a CSS selector per pick and hides every match, and the init context lists them in hidden. Give ids to static elements, put a data-key on the items of a list you build, and load the SDK script at the end of <body>, so picks survive your updates.
• <dd-bar> segments lay out inside the Length and Alignment the user picks, with no code. <html> carries data-dd-bar-length (full, fit or percent) for CSS that needs it. A bar whose segments are all center is fit to content until the user picks a Length.
• system.bluetoothDevices rows gain battery, charging, parts (each earbud and the case, for AirPods and Beats) and a finer type. A new system.bluetoothDevices event pings when a paired device connects or leaves. <dd-bluetooth-devices> shows the battery level and draws gamepads and keyboards.
• games.art takes kind: "icon": the game's own square icon.
• All of the above needs app 0.5.0. The store sets minAppVersion from what your widget uses.

Fixes for setup, opening DeskDash and uninstalling.

New

• Settings > General has an Open button that shows your widgets and themes folder in Explorer.

Improvements

• Opening DeskDash while it already runs now opens Settings. Before, nothing happened.
• When a widget install fails because DeskDash cannot write a file, the message now names the file or folder.

Fixes

• Fixed: On some PCs, ransomware protection or an antivirus program stopped DeskDash from saving widgets. The desktop stayed empty and every install from the store failed. New installs now keep widgets, taskbars and themes in DeskDash's own app folder. If you already have widgets, they stay where they are.
• Fixed: Uninstalling DeskDash while it ran could leave your desktop icons hidden, and the Windows taskbar hidden or set to auto-hide. The uninstaller now closes DeskDash first, so both come back. It also removes Edit DeskDash from the desktop right-click menu.
• Fixed: Two copies of DeskDash could start at the same time, for example when you opened it just as Windows started it after sign-in. You then saw two taskbars, and closing one showed the desktop icons again.
• Fixed: The taskbar's tray list kept the icon of an app that closed without removing it, for example after a crash, so the same app could show up many times.
• Fixed: A pinned app that updates itself into a new folder, such as Discord, could lose its icon, do nothing when clicked, or get a second button next to its pin.

SDK/Authors

• New installs load widgets from %LOCALAPPDATA%\com.deskdash.desktop\content\widgets, with taskbars and themes beside it. Installs that already have content in Documents\DeskDash keep it. Keep your widget source somewhere else too: an uninstall with "Delete the application data" ticked removes that folder.

A fix for updates at sign-in.

Fixes

• Fixed: An update that installed itself right after you signed in to Windows could leave DeskDash closed until the next restart.

SDK/Authors

• Every scrolling element now gets the house scrollbar, inside dd-* components too, such as a scrolling <dd-panel>. Before, only .dd-scroll had it.

Quick Settings and notifications on your taskbar.

New

• Quick Settings on the taskbar: taskbars can now show switches for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular, a volume for each app, your microphone, the brightness of your screens, and your paired Bluetooth headphones and speakers, ready to connect. Your taskbar might need an update from the store.
• Notification center: taskbars can now open a notification center beside their bell, with your Windows notifications. Click one to go to it in its app, use its buttons, or clear them one app at a time or all at once. The bell shows how many you have.
• Sound devices: pick the speakers and the microphone Windows uses, right from the taskbar's volume control.
• Taskbar buttons can now open the Windows Quick Settings and the Windows notification center.

Fixes

• Fixed: Volume sliders could jump back to the old value for a moment after you let go.
• Fixed: The taskbar's tray list stayed open when a fullscreen app started, in edit mode, and after its taskbar closed.
• Fixed: With a taskbar on more than one display, every taskbar showed its tray button as pressed while the tray list was open.

SDK/Authors

• dd.bar.openQuickSettings() and dd.bar.openNotifications() open the Windows Quick Settings and notification center from a click on a taskbar. <dd-bar-button action="quick-settings"> and action="notifications" do it with no code.
• New dd.system calls under system + systemControls: the audio device list and switch, microphone level and mute, the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and cellular switches, per-app volume, paired Bluetooth devices with Connect and Disconnect for audio devices, and display brightness (built-in panels, and monitors with DDC/CI). system.vitals gains mic and radios, and openSettings gains four pages.
• New components for them: <dd-audio-devices>, <dd-radio-toggle>, <dd-audio-mixer>, <dd-bluetooth-devices> and <dd-brightness>. <dd-volume-pill> gains input (the microphone) and devices (a device list).
• New dd.notificationCenter for taskbars, under taskbar: the notification count, Do not disturb, the access state, and open and close for the notification center the app draws. A taskbar never sees the notifications themselves. <dd-notification-bell> adds the bell and its count in one tag, and the notificationCenter preset adds its Show notifications setting.
• <dd-bar-button>: badge shows a count on the icon, and several pane buttons can share the taskbar's one pane, each with its own paneData.
• systray.changed now reports open only to the taskbar whose button opened the tray list.
• All of the above needs app 0.4.2. The store sets minAppVersion from what your widget uses.

Storage for taskbar widgets.

SDK/Authors

• dd.storage now works in a taskbar. A taskbar widget gets one store, shared by its copy on every display and by its pane. dd.weather.geocode now works there too.

Themes that follow live wallpapers. Improved UI.

New

• Live wallpapers: the Automatic theme now follows live wallpaper apps such as Wallpaper Engine, playlists included. When the wallpaper changes, your widgets and taskbar take its colors.
• Automatic theme options: a new section at the top of Settings > Themes shows what the theme follows, and lets you choose the color strength, which parts take the wallpaper's colors, and how visible the borders are.
• Save these colors as a theme: keeps the current Automatic colors as a theme of your own.
• We now have a Discord! Make sure to Join the DeskDash server to ask questions, share your desktop and hear about new widgets first.

Improvements

• Theme changes now fade from the old colors to the new ones. Animation speed in Settings > General sets how fast.
• Settings and the store have a new look: grouped settings with switches, icons, smooth page changes and slim scroll bars.
• The store keeps your place in the list when you go back from a widget's page, and Add confirms with a check.
• A new widget now lands in the first free spot on the desktop.
• The store now marks an installed widget that its author no longer lists.

Fixes

• Fixed: With the Automatic theme active, a wallpaper change reset the preview in the theme builder.

SDK/Authors

• Theme colors now fade on a theme change. dd.theme.onChange runs when the colors settle, and dd.ui.token() returns the new color during the fade.
• The store now sets minAppVersion for each new widget version from the API it uses. A value in your manifest only counts when it is higher.

Join the DeskDash Discord: https://discord.gg/kS2EAYYkeZ

Taskbar improvements.

New

• Tray icon order: you can now drag the icons in the taskbar's tray list (minimized apps) to put them in your own order. Settings > Taskbar sorts them A to Z again.
• Hide tray icons: Too many apps showing in the tray list? A new option now allows you to hide icons of apps you don't use. They still run, and are still accessible from a new collapsible list.
• Taskbar apps per display: with a taskbar on every display, Settings > Taskbar > Show taskbar apps on can show each app only on the taskbar of the display where its window is open, or there and on the primary taskbar.

Improvements

• An app you start from a taskbar now tries to open on that taskbar's display. Some fullscreen apps and system apps (like Task Manager) might ignore this.
• We changed how license key works. You don't need to do anything. The license window's Manage keys link opens your account page, where you can release a key from an old computer or add a key for another device.

SDK/Authors

• New dd.feeds.open({ settingKey, link }): opens an item link from dd.feeds.fetch in the user's browser from a click, with no links grant. Only links the host read from the user's own feed open. Needs minAppVersion 0.3.11.

Update and tray menu fixes.

Fixes

• Fixed: Sometimes installs in a custom folder went back to the previous version after a restart, and asked to update again.
• Fixed: Right-clicking an icon in the taskbar's tray list could open the app's menu behind the list, which made it hard to click.

Drop to launch. News feeds.

New

• New widget Shelf: Similar to Desktop Drawer, but allows you to drag and drop any files, apps, and folders into it.
• News feeds: a widget can now show the headlines of a news feed you choose. Type the feed's web address into the widget's settings, and DeskDash reads the feed for it.

Improvements

• Widgets are now able to declare a minSize smaller than one cell. New widgets from now on will therefore be able to shrink below one cell on the Half and Quarter grids.

Fixes

• Fixed: The taskbar would sometimes end up behind apps and windows, when it was intended to stay on top.

SDK/Authors

• New launchers permission and dd.launchers namespace: the host resolves what the user drops on a widget (an exe or shortcut through the taskbar pin ladder, a file or folder by name), stores it per widget with opaque ids, and offers list, icons, open and forget plus the drag, drop and changed events. No path ever reaches the widget. Needs minAppVersion 0.3.9.
• New feeds permission and dd.feeds.fetch: the host downloads the RSS, Atom or JSON feed at the web address the user typed into a url setting, and returns only item titles, links and dates, never the page. The new url setting type never takes its manifest default, like filePath. Both need minAppVersion 0.3.9.
• minSize now takes quarter steps from 0.25 cells, so a slim widget can shrink below one cell on the Half and Quarter grids. The app rounds it up to whole cells of the user's grid. A fraction needs minAppVersion 0.3.9.

Automatic updates. GPU reading fix.

New

• Store update notices: when a widget or taskbar you installed from the store has a new version, DeskDash tells you once when it starts. Settings > Updates turns the notice off.
• Update all: the store's Updates tab updates every widget or taskbar on the shelf with one click.
• Automatic updates: the widgets and taskbar you use can update on their own when DeskDash starts.
• Graphics card choice: on a computer with more than one graphics card, Settings > General picks the one the GPU reading measures.

Improvements

• The store shows when it is checking for updates, and the Widgets and Taskbars buttons show how many updates each has.
• In edit mode, the Add widgets button shows how many updates are waiting.

Fixes

• The GPU reading now measures one graphics card, the dedicated one when there is one, instead of adding every graphics adapter together, and it now counts video and compute work too.

SDK/Authors

• The gpu value in system.vitals is now the busiest engine of one graphics adapter (the one Settings > General picks, the dedicated card by default), the figure Task Manager shows, instead of the 3D engines of every adapter added together. Still a 0..1 fraction; nothing to declare.

General improvements. Custom folder launchers support.

New

• Open folders with: For people that don't use the default Explorer to open folders, Settings > General can now name another program. Empty keeps the Windows default.

Fixes

• The upload and download rates in the system vitals no longer count VPN tunnels, virtual switch ports and other virtual adapters a second time.
• Taskbar widgets and their panes can now open links, their own settings window and the power actions.

SDK/Authors

• A manifest setting may declare "type": "list": text rows the user adds, reorders and removes in the settings window, read back as an array of strings. Declare minAppVersion 0.3.7, since older apps refuse a manifest that uses it.
• dd.power.run accepts restartAdvanced, a confirmed restart into the advanced startup menu. Older apps answer INVALID_PARAMS for it: declare minAppVersion 0.3.7, or catch the rejection.
• settings.open, links.open, dialogs.pickDesktopItems and power.run work from a bar document and from its pane under the cursor-inside gate (the bar window, or the pane and its anchor). settings.open on a bar opens the Taskbar settings window and honours highlight.
• A bar manifest may no longer declare an explicit filePath, secretRef or instances field.
• The manifest reference now states the marketplace's limit of 32 settings entries; a preset name counts as one.

Per widget styling. Hide everything with a double click.

New

• Per-widget style: every widget's settings window now has a Style tab. Change its background, border, corner radius, text colors, accent or fonts, and only that widget changes; everything else keeps following the theme.
• Hide every widget at once: double-click an empty spot on the desktop, or pick Hide widgets in the tray menu. They clear away from the spot you clicked, keep running while they are gone, and come back the same way. Settings > General turns the double-click off.

Improvements

• Widgets now fade in and out as they show, hide, arrive and leave, one shortly after another instead of all at once. A widget no longer sits there as an empty tile while it loads.
• Theme builder: the eight tokens you change most come first; everything else sits under Advanced.
• Animation speed in Settings > General: off, fast, normal or slow. It times the widgets' own motion too.

Fixes

• A rare freeze right after sign-in is fixed. It left the app frozen with no taskbar at all, ours or the Windows one, and Explorer hung when the desktop was clicked. It came from the window library's handling of an Explorer restart signal at the moment the taskbar was being replaced.
• If the app ever stops answering for about ten seconds, it now gives the Windows taskbar back on its own and restarts, at most twice an hour. The desktop.watchdog entry in config.json turns this off.
• The taskbar's tray icons now load a few seconds after the taskbar appears, once the desktop has settled, instead of during startup.

SDK/Authors

• dd.theme.tokens() and the theme.tokens event now carry the instance's effective map, per-widget style included; dd.ui.token() already did. Nothing to declare: every token your CSS uses is covered.
• The motion tokens carry the user's animation speed, so anything timed with them follows it. Nothing to declare.
• When the user hides every widget at once, widgets stay mounted and running and only stop receiving input; widgets.setHidden still unmounts, and widgets.list and widgets.changed do not report the hide.

Drag to rearrange the taskbar, and widgets that shrink without breaking.

New

• Taskbar reorder: You can now drag any app or pin along the taskbar, same as in the normal Windows taskbar (might require updating the taskbars).

Improvements

• Widget scaling: Widget size now scales properly changes when using the scaling feature for big screens. So a widget scaled down doesn't break its layout.
• Popout panes follow their widget's Widget size.

SDK/Authors

• Taskbar widgets: the host now owns one ordered strip of pins and running apps. Read it and move a row with dd.bar.strip, and follow bar.strip.changed.
• <dd-apps sortable> gives a bar drag-to-reorder with no code: a cancelable dd-sort event on drop, and dragging and sorting states to style.
• Every reorder in <dd-apps> slides into place. Keep the entry host's transform free and put hover and press transforms on the parts.
• Below 100% Widget size a widget's pixels are larger than the screen's. Popout sizes and anchors stay in your own pixels; the host converts.

Smaller widgets for big screens, and a taskbar that stays on one display.

New

• Widget size: People with large displays (4k, ultrawide) can now choose to shrink the widgets on one screen from Settings > General. Pick 67% down to 33% per display.
• Taskbar on one display: If you have more than one display connected, you can now choose to show the taskbar on just one of them from Settings > Taskbar

Improvements

• License key entry got improved so manual entry is easier

SDK/Authors

• Widget settings can now be a date or a time, with a picker in the settings window.
• Text size: one shared setting, tiny to huge, for widgets that offer it.
• Week starts on: one shared setting for widgets that show a week.
• For widget authors: calendar date helpers and a measured text fit in the SDK.

Forecast data for widgets, and steadier polling.

New

• Widgets can read a weather forecast, the next hours or the next days, alongside the current conditions.

Improvements

• Editing a widget setting that feeds a data fetch now costs one request instead of one per keystroke.

Your games, on your dashboard.

New

• Games: widgets and taskbars can now show the games installed on this PC and start them, cover art and all. Steam and GOG to begin with, with nothing to sign in to.

Fixes

• The dashboard no longer freezes when Windows Explorer restarts while a taskbar is active.

Size your taskbar the way you like it.

New

• You can now scale your DeskDash taskbar from 50% to 200%. Right-click the taskbar and choose Taskbar Settings... to do so.

Improved

• When you update across several versions at once, this what's-new screen now shows each release you skipped, newest first, instead of only the one you landed on.

DeskDash can replace your Windows taskbar.

New

• Taskbars: DeskDash can now replace your Windows taskbar with one of its own, carrying your pinned and running apps. Open Add widgets in edit mode, pick Taskbars at the top, and press Use on one. Two come with this version, more are coming soon.
• The store has a Taskbars section beside Widgets, with the same Installed, Browse and Updates tabs, so new ones arrive the way widgets do.
• A taskbar is a widget like any other. It carries its own settings, and it asks for the same permissions: the start menu, your notification area, your open windows and your pinned apps, plus anything a desktop widget can use, such as the clock, media, sound and system readings. You choose what to grant when you install it.
• Right-click the taskbar for its settings, for the app settings, for edit mode and for Quit. Quit is there because your notification area hides along with the Windows taskbar while a bar runs.
• To get the Windows taskbar back, open the store's Taskbars section and click In use on the one you are running.
• Documentation and more taskbar capabilities follow over the next few days.

Improved

• Your widgets keep their place when the space a taskbar reserves changes.
• First run offers to hide your desktop icons, beside the launch at login choice.

Fixes

• Fixed app icons that sometimes came out blurry, or ringed with empty space, when a widget drew them large.

Show desktop works again while a borderless fullscreen game is in front, and the desktop right-click Edit item now starts DeskDash when it is closed.

Fixes

• Show desktop (Win+D) reveals the desktop again while a borderless fullscreen game or app is in front. Before, with DeskDash running, the press did nothing.
• Your widgets stay visible on the revealed desktop, and drop back behind your windows as soon as you bring one back.
• "Edit widgets" in the desktop right-click menu now starts DeskDash in edit mode when the app is closed. Before, the item did nothing until the app was already running.

Widget updates are one click in the store, and a new Updates tab shows everything waiting.

New

• One-click updates: the Update button in the store grid and on a widget's page updates immediately. A version that asks for new permissions still shows the confirmation first.
• Updates tab in the store: every installed widget with an update waiting, in one place, with a count on the tab.
• Widgets can send you to their settings: a widget's button can open its settings dialog with the relevant field highlighted.

Improvements

• Removing a widget is now a Remove button at the top of its store page; it removes the widget and everything it placed on your desktop in one step.
• Widget settings dialogs show a field only while it applies.
• Store covers load as lightweight thumbnails and the store's update check moves far less data.
• The updater no longer re-downloads an update it already has parked at Ready.

For widget authors

• dd.settings.open({ highlight }): open your widget's own settings dialog from a click, optionally flashing one field. Full rules in the API reference.
• Setting fields take a showIf condition in the manifest: the field shows only while another setting equals a given value.

The system stream now reports per-drive space, so storage widgets can show every drive.

New

• Drive space in the system stream: every fixed drive reports its capacity, used space and volume label, refreshed about every 30 seconds. Store widgets that monitor storage can now show each drive.

For widget authors

• system.vitals snapshots gain a drives array: mount, volume label, used and total MiB and a fill fraction per fixed drive, or null when enumeration fails. Full shape in the API reference.

Background images for widgets, pixel fonts with a Pixel Arcade theme, a widget request form, and a visualizer that can react to all sound.

New

• Background images: every widget with a Panel style setting gains an Image style. Pick it to choose a background image and a cover or contain fit.
• Request a widget: have some widget you want to see in DeskDash? Use the new Request a widget button at the bottom of the widget store and submit it. We'll review requests and add them to our roadmap.
• Pixel fonts: Pixelify Sans, Press Start 2P and Silkscreen ship with the app, joined by the new Pixel Arcade theme. Pick them in Settings > Themes.
• The visualizer can react to all sound: a new setting makes the bars follow audiobooks, games and anything else that plays without a media player.

Improved

• Secret dropdowns in widget settings gained a + button that opens the secrets vault with a name already suggested; the new secret is selected for you when you return.

For widget authors

• dd.image.load returns a user-picked image file as a data URL with no permission needed; the panelStyle preset applies it through dd-panel automatically.
• Audio widgets may declare a boolean anyAudio setting; the host reads it and lifts the media-session gate while it is on.
• Three new bundled font ids for manifest pins and themes: pixelify-sans, press-start-2p, silkscreen.

Fixes license activation behind strict security software and makes the app log safe to share.

Fixed

• License activation and the marketplace now work on PCs where antivirus, VPN or company software inspects secure connections.

Improved

• Connection failures now log their exact cause, so one log line is enough to diagnose them.
• Log files have been cleaned up to show only important information

For widget authors

• A widget can opt out of the right-click menu with contextMenu false in its manifest; right-clicks then pass through it in view mode.

A small maintenance release.

Improved

• Widgets created from the Developer page now offer your own settings by name in your code editor.

Changed

• The license check now reports how many widgets you have and how many are switched on

Making your own widgets just got a lot easier

New

• Developer mode: a switch in Settings > General for anyone who wants to write their own widget. It adds a Developer page, shows errors on widgets that break, and lets you open the browser developer tools on one. Off by default, and nothing changes if you leave it off.
• Create widget: one button on the Developer page writes a complete working widget you can edit straight away. It comes with everything your code editor needs to help you: what you can call and what it does, which colors and sizes are available, and a red underline when you mistype something. Nothing to install and nothing to build.
• Widget documentation is now on the website. Open it with the button below, or from Settings > Developer.

Control the way DeskDash looks

New

• Theme builder: design your own theme in Settings > Themes. Start from the current look, adjust colors, fonts, spacing and effects with a live preview on your desktop, and save it as a personal theme you can edit or delete any time.
• Bundled fonts: Audiowide, Nunito and Nunito Sans now ship with the app, so themes and widgets can rely on them on any machine. Ask for more fonts you want to see included, and we can add them to the bundle.
• Release notes: bigger updates now introduce themselves, like this one. You can turn these screens off, and the full history is always at desktop-dashboard.com/changelog.
• Today widget: the date set large across the widget, one or two lines of weekday, month, day number or year. Ships with the app.

Improved

• The Themes page leads with a Create theme card, and the Automatic wallpaper theme sits at the front of the gallery.
• Widgets can bundle their own font files, declared in the manifest and verified on load.
• The Neon Rain theme uses the new display face for headline text.

DeskDash 0.1.7

Updates apply when you restart, and only then

An update that arrives while you are using DeskDash no longer installs itself out from under you. It downloads, verifies, and waits at Restart to update. Restarting is what applies it: the next launch installs it on its own, no second click. In a hurry? Clicking the tray item or the button in Settings still updates right away.

DeskDash 0.1.6

A simpler setup guide

Every step is one line now, with pictures where they help. Adding widgets shows the tray icon you click, and a new last step points at support.

Your widgets live somewhere you can find

New installs keep widgets and themes in Documents\DeskDash instead of a hidden app-data folder. Existing installs are untouched: your current folder stays exactly where it is, and you can move it any time from Settings > General.

In-app update control: the edit palette now has a Check for updates button with live status (checking, downloading, restart to apply), including the real error message when a check fails. Update behavior itself is unchanged: nothing installs until you click.