v2.1.0 — taskbar transparency & flattening, desktop menu settings

Taskbar controls filled out, and the desktop right-click menu is now wired into the app.

任务栏补齐了控制项，桌面右键菜单也接进了设置界面。

Taskbar / 任务栏

• Transparency — pick how the dock decides its background (follow theme / fixed / dynamic) and set the opacity when it is fixed.
  A gotcha worth knowing: the opacity value is only read when the mode is Fixed. Left on the default mode, dragging an opacity slider writes the value correctly and changes nothing on screen — so dragging it here switches the mode for you (and that switch is recorded too, so Restore Defaults undoes both).
  透明度 —— 选择背景模式（跟随主题 / 固定 / 动态）并在固定模式下调不透明度。有个坑：不透明度只有在固定模式下才会被读取，停在默认模式上怎么拖都没有视觉变化，所以拖滑块时会自动帮你切到固定模式（这次切换也进备份，能一起还原）。
• Size — the existing icon-size control now states the allowed 16–64 range and that it is an upper bound, not a fixed size.
  大小 —— 图标大小项补上了 16–64 的允许范围说明，并说清它是上限而不是固定值。
• Flattening — three separate switches, because they are three different things: extend to the full screen edge, square off the rounded corners, and shrink the padding.
  展平 —— 拆成三个开关，因为它们本来就是三件事：顶满整条屏幕边、去掉圆角、收紧内边距。

Desktop right-click menu / 桌面右键菜单

The menu items that are genuinely backed by settings — arrangement order, keep arranged, keep stacked, sort special folders, starting corner, and the show/hide group for home, trash, volumes, network, link emblems and drop position — are now in the app. The desktop's own menu binds to these same settings, so the two stay in sync instead of fighting each other.

菜单里真正有设置项支撑的部分——排列顺序、保持排列、保持堆叠、特殊文件夹排序、起始角落，以及主目录/回收站/磁盘/网络/链接角标/放置位置的显示开关——都进了界面。桌面自带的右键菜单绑的就是同一批设置，所以两边实时同步，不会各写各的。

What is deliberately absent: "New Folder", "New Document", "Open in Terminal" and "Show Desktop in Files" are added to the menu unconditionally by the desktop-icons extension — there is no setting anywhere to show or hide them. Rather than offer switches that quietly do nothing, the app and the READMEs say so outright.

故意没做的：「新建文件夹」「新建文档」「在终端中打开」「在文件管理器中显示桌面」是桌面图标扩展无条件加进菜单的，代码里没有任何开关能控制它们。与其摆几个按了没反应的开关，不如在界面和文档里直说。

Unchanged / 不变

Everything still goes through gsettings — no system file is modified, nothing needs root, and no extension is ever installed automatically. Restore Defaults still puts back your values, recorded the first time each setting is touched; all the new settings are covered by it too.

依旧全部通过 gsettings 完成——不改系统文件、不需要 root、不自动安装任何扩展。「恢复默认」恢复的仍是你自己原来的值（每项第一次被改动时记下），新加的项也一样纳入。

Install / 安装

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

Already on v2.0? Just git pull.

Tested on / 实测环境

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

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

v1.0.0

First public release.

Dropdesk puts any installed app back on your GNOME desktop — the feature GNOME removed. Pick apps from a searchable list and it drops ready-to-run .desktop shortcuts on your desktop, already marked trusted, so double-clicking just works with no "Allow Launching?" prompt.

Install

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

No sudo required. This puts a launcher on your desktop and in your application menu.

Run bash install.sh --help for advanced options (custom install location, system-wide install, menu entry only, uninstall).

Requirements

Python 3 and PyGObject (GTK 3), shipped by default on most desktop distributions. See the README for per-distribution package names.

Notes

The UI follows your system language (English or Chinese). Chinese documentation: README.zh-CN.md

Licence

GPL-3.0 — see LICENSE. You may use, modify and share this freely, but a
modified version you distribute has to stay open under the GPL as well.