v2.0.0 — desktop & taskbar console (Dropdesk is now deskctl)

Dropdesk is now deskctl (桌面控制台). It started out as "put an app on the desktop"; it now controls desktop icons and the taskbar too, so the old name had stopped describing it. The old GitHub URL redirects here — existing links and clones keep working.
Dropdesk 更名为 deskctl（桌面控制台）：它一开始只是"把应用放到桌面"，现在还管桌面图标和任务栏，旧名字已经名不副实。旧的 GitHub 地址会自动跳转到这里，原有链接和克隆都不受影响。

GNOME dropped the ability to drag an app onto the desktop, and scatters icon size, icon visibility and taskbar layout across extension preference dialogs — or offers them nowhere at all. deskctl puts them in one window.

GNOME 删掉了"把应用拖到桌面"，又把图标大小、图标显示、任务栏布局散落在各个扩展的设置里、甚至根本没有入口。deskctl 把它们收进一个窗口。

What's new in v2.0

• Desktop page — drop apps on the desktop (as before, with shortcuts pre-marked trusted so they launch on double-click), set icon size Tiny / Small / Medium / Large, and hide or show all desktop icons with one switch.
  桌面页：把应用放到桌面（和以前一样，快捷方式预先标记受信任，双击直接启动）、图标大小四档（极小/小/中/大）、一个开关显示或隐藏全部桌面图标。
• Taskbar page — position, icon size, auto-hide, intelligent hide, extend to full height, and whether trash and mounted drives appear.
  任务栏页：位置、图标大小、自动隐藏、智能隐藏、延伸到整屏高度、是否显示回收站与已挂载磁盘。
• Restore Defaults puts back your settings, not GNOME's. Original values are recorded the first time each key is touched, so any number of round-trips still rolls back to exactly where you started.
  「恢复默认」恢复的是你自己原来的设置，不是 GNOME 的出厂值：每个键第一次被改动时就记下原值，来回折腾多少次都能回到起点。
• Sorting is intentionally not duplicated — the desktop's own right-click menu already sorts by name, type, size and modification time. deskctl points you at it instead of adding a second, competing control.
  排序没有重复造：桌面右键菜单本来就能按名称/类型/大小/修改时间排序，deskctl 只在界面上指出来。

Everything is done through gsettings. No system file is modified and nothing needs root. Extensions are never installed automatically — if a supported dock is not present, the taskbar page tells you what to install rather than doing it behind your back.

全部通过 gsettings 完成，不改任何系统文件、不需要 root。也不会自动帮你装扩展：没检测到支持的 dock 时，任务栏页会告诉你要装什么，而不是背着你动手。

Upgrading from v1 (Dropdesk)

Re-run install.sh. The menu entry is now deskctl.desktop, so the old dropdesk.desktop entry lingers until you run bash install.sh --uninstall from a v1 checkout (or delete it by hand).

从 v1（Dropdesk）升级：重新跑一次 install.sh。菜单项现在叫 deskctl.desktop，旧的 dropdesk.desktop 需要在 v1 的目录里跑 bash install.sh --uninstall 才会清掉（也可以手动删）。

Install

git clone https://github.com/Enumber/deskctl.git
cd deskctl
bash install.sh

Choose where it goes (home directory, a custom path, or system-wide /opt via sudo) and whether you want a desktop icon. No sudo needed for the default user-level install.

Tested on

Ubuntu 24.04 / GNOME 46 / Xorg, with Desktop Icons NG (DING) and Ubuntu Dock. Other extension combinations are detected through the same mechanism but have not been tested on real hardware.

Full documentation: README · 中文说明