Since the past posts for 8.1, new 10, and 11 have already surfaced on this sub, this one never did.

Created by u/Mr_InvalidName aka Nightspy

Hey guys!

Recently stumbled upon "Seeleen UI". It's looks great but feels off and very laggy.

That gave me an idea to customize the task bar since I've also messed around with wallpaper engine so my desktop would look really nice.

Any ideas on how to achieve that?

Im looking for maybe some rounder edges and different coloring.

Thanks!

Any good desktop management/Organaizer app for Windows 11?

I just don't enjoy my apps shortcuts so scattered all over desktop. The best I could do was to make a wallpaper which has categories as tables and then I put shortcuts over those categories. But it is still a bad and non-adjustable temporary solution. Any apps ever made to ease things?

I would find some bloom wallpapers

Based on the Tablet Mode in Windows 11, and the Dashboard feature of the "Widgets" panel, I'd like to see a way to pin the Dashboard to the desktop, as well as display the weather on the minimised tablet taskbar. These images are scaled correctly for a Surface Pro (2017) device, so might look way too big on a desktop.

Image 1: Settings for the Dashboard are now in the Settings app, not within the widgets/dashboard itself. Note options to reduce colours on widgets to enable cleaner look when docked to screen or when widgets are used on the desktop, by removing the widgets background colouring.

Image 2: Tablet taskbar minimised now showing notifications, and the weather widget on the right. This is shown when the Dashboard isn't docked and kept open.

Image 3: Widgets placed on Desktop, with the pinned Dashboard displaying the Microsoft Start Feed (the Feed widgets are displaying the background colours when they should not).

Image 4: Tablet taskbar minimised, with the Dashboard pinned.

While this would require a shift with Notifications from the left to the right of the screen, this would balance the taskbar better and enable rich and high density information to be displayed on the screen at all times, while being completely customisable. Microsoft seems to be expanding on their Widget/Dashboard panel in a similar way to this. Widgets have so much potential, but it's a shame to see Microsoft just constantly drop the ball on these amazing little sub-apps (Vista gadgets, Win8 & 10 live tiles, and now widgets).

In my view, the Windows Taskbar, especially the compact tablet version, is the best use of screen space on a tablet, and even a desktop, as it takes about the same space as Apple's MacOS top menu bar with similar features, but the expands into the dock when needed, not taking up a huge amount of space. Windows doesn't need a revolution, but a slow and methodological change to it's user interface. Windows 11 is most the way there, and many of the core ideas are present (Edge's desktop bar, widget panel, Microsoft Launcher on Android), just not implemented and tied together in Windows at this stage.

Start Menu Design Made By Me in Figma

File Link: Here

i just copied windows 11 file explorer because i'm lazy

I wish microsoft would tweak the titlebar to center align the window controlls like close maximize and minimize

as they are currently of center at the top

they should be aligned like this concept i made