Hey everyone,
DeskLayer v1.1 is out, but I want to address the elephant in the room and sincerely apologize for being so quiet lately, as well as the complete lack of proper marketing around this release.
To be completely honest, I couldn't bring myself to actively promote or hype up the app while knowing a critical issue was still affecting daily productivity. As a solo developer, putting on a marketing face while a core stability bug disrupts real workflows just felt wrong.
Why things have been quiet:
For the past week, almost all of my focus has been locked into tracking down an elusive edge-case bug: after sitting idle for 15 to 20 minutes, or when another window is maximized, UI clicks and interactions can stop responding.
Because DeskLayer lives directly on top of the Windows shell, debugging this meant digging into deep memory heap dumps, analyzing race conditions across 10,000+ queued Win32 messages, and untangling how WPF and Chromium handle idle power-saving states.
While significant progress has been made to eliminate background thread flooding and dispatcher deadlocks, long-term soak tests showed that it still needs further architectural refinement before it is truly rock solid.
What this means moving forward:
Marketing stays on hold: Active promotion and social pushes will wait until this issue is definitively resolved. Stability comes before growth.
Core stability first: All development effort is dedicated to bulletproofing the UI message pump and idle behavior.
Thank you so much to everyone who has supported the project, tested the builds, and stayed patient. I truly appreciate your understanding, and I will share another update once the long-term testing is completely clean. Temporary Workaround:
If your widgets or dock stop responding to clicks right now, you don't need to force-close the app from Task Manager. Simply press Ctrl + Shift + D to trigger a hot-reload of the dock interface and instantly restore responsiveness.