DeskLayer — Quick Patch: Easier to start + smart editing
New here? Take the tour
First time you open DeskLayer, a short guided tour points out the wallpaper, taskbar, and widgets.
One-click "Apply a starter look" sets up a full starter scene — a taskbar, a live wallpaper, and a few widgets — and saves it as a Preset you can tweak.
The taskbar editor, widget editor, and on-screen designer each get their own quick tour the first time you open them.
Wallpaper: turn it off, and get yours back
New "Turn off wallpaper" in the wallpaper card's menu. It stops DeskLayer's wallpaper and restores your own Windows background instead of leaving it blank.
Editor: snap things into place
Smart alignment guides in all three editors. Drag a tile for an alignment line through nearby tiles plus a spacing pill when gaps match. Drag a group and it snaps to the tiles around it. Resize snaps to a neighbour's size with a live W x H readout. Hold Alt for free placement.
Redesigned Layers panel. Rows are thumbnail, name, an eye and an x — no more tiny arrows. Drag a row and it lifts onto a chip that follows your cursor while its old spot stays open and a line shows where it lands. Right-click a layer for an "Arrange layer" order menu.
On-screen designer
The Add buttons that sometimes wouldn't click are fixed, and a tile you add now appears right away.
Media loads properly (no more blank tile), and the "Image" tile is now "Media".
Shapes (rectangle and circle) style fully now — colour, corner radius, and border — and the swatch shows the real colour for transparent fills.
Report a problem
New "Report a problem" in Settings, plus a gentle prompt if the app ever recovers from a hiccup. It bundles a diagnostics log so issues actually get found and fixed. You choose what to send, and it never includes personal files.
Fixes
Turning the taskbar on is far less disruptive. It no longer nudges your desktop icons around or resizes your open windows more than once.
A left or right (vertical) taskbar no longer makes the tiles disappear. It falls back to the bottom safely, and Ctrl+Shift+D reopens the hub if you get locked out.
The tray now shows a wired icon on an Ethernet connection instead of a Wi-Fi glyph.
Languages
The new welcome tour is localized across English, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (BR), Russian, and Chinese.