Desktop Panels PC

Desktop Panels - Display gifs and images on your desktop

Current state and features:

• Moving and scaling by mouse actions
  
• Very simple UI and easy to use
  
• Mostly based on drag & drop actions and mouse controls
  
• Works with common formats like GIF, PNG, BMP, and JPEG including transparency
  
• Transparent areas don't affect the OS
  
• Control opacity for all panels
  
• Control speed for animated panels
  
• Less CPU and RAM usage. (You can still play any game or do other stuff)
  
• Saving and loading of Configs
  
• Always-On-Top can be toggled for each panel
  
• Panels can be locked
  
• Panels can be set Click-Through
  
• Autostart and Offline Mode
  
• Hotkey options to quickly toggle the visibility and switch through Configs

Simple usage - More advanced features will be available later in the UI

• Drag&Drop your gif and image files into the main window to create a panel.
  
• Hold the left mouse button to move it.
  
• Hold the right mouse button and use the scroll wheel to resize it.
  
• Double-click to toggle the panel options (contains options for a panel).
  
• Triple-click or use the delete button in the Panel-Options to remove a panel.
  
• You can close the Desktop Panels window. It will minimize it to the tray.
  
• The UI can be opened again with a double-click on the tray icon.
  
• Right-click on the tray icon to open the menu. Here you can save and load your default configuration.
  
• The Autostart option is also toggled in the tray icon menu.
  
• Mode advanced features are available in the UI...

Usecases

• Have your favorite animated character on your Desktop. (of course)
  
• Watermark screenshots and recordings.
  
• Use icons and symbols to prototype UI
  
• Use images as a reference while drawing
  
• Using it as an image viewer (because the windows gallery app sucks and has a window)
  
• Using icons and shapes while presenting

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