OpenDock 🚀

A lightweight, high-performance, and modern macOS-style Dock for Windows 11 and 10. OpenDock is fully open source, highly customizable, and written in C# using native APIs (.NET / WinForms) with no heavy external dependencies.

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🌟 Key Features

1. 🖥️ Modern macOS Dock Experience

• Aero Acrylic & Glassmorphism: Provides a premium semi-transparent frosted-glass aesthetic with customizable background opacity.
• Active Window Tracking: Real-time window capture showcasing active and minimized applications with elegant dot indicators underneath, just like macOS.
• Dynamic Icon Resizing: Supports icon scales ranging from 16px to 128px.
• Custom Logo Launcher: Upload your own custom 32x32 pixel image for the start menu button or reset to the Windows default icon with one click.

2. 🕒 Dynamic Clock Widget with CSS Engines

• Style via CSS: Configure fonts, text alignments, shadows, sizes, and colors of your clock widget using a opendock.css file.
• Hot-Reloading (FileSystemWatcher): Any saved changes in opendock.css are instantly hot-reloaded and rendered on your clock without restarting the application.
• Modern Typography Support: Easily apply premium web/system fonts (e.g., Inter, Segoe UI, Outfit) using regular CSS rules.

3. 🌀 Immersive 3D Carousel Switcher (3D Virtual Desktops)

• Infinite Carousel Rotation: Rotate the 3D desktop carousel infinitely horizontally without boundary locks.
• Drag-to-Rotate / Click-to-Select Split: Dragging and releasing snaps the carousel to the nearest workspace face but keeps the transition overlay open so you can preview workspaces. Clicking a desktop face instantly switches to that desktop and closes the carousel.
• Interruptible Snap Physics (Flick Gestures): Mid-snap animations are completely interruptible. Grab or click the carousel at any moment to take control of rotation immediately.
• Advanced Camera & Overlay Customization: Adjust FOV (Zoom factor), camera Z depth, overlay pre-capture limits, and transition deceleration coefficients straight from the tray menu.
• Starry Night Background: Determinisitic and flicker-free sky star generator that renders beautiful background particles without causing GPU spikes.
• Pre-cached Custom Backgrounds: Choose a transition background image or fall back to the default dark blue space gradient. The background image is pre-cached on startup for zero blitting latency.

4. 🌍 100 Languages Support & Auto-detection

• Automatic Locale Detection: Automatically queries your active Windows UI language (CultureInfo.CurrentUICulture) on startup and applies the correct translation.
• 100 Languages Built-in: Full and partial dictionary mappings for 100 world languages (English, Turkish, Spanish, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, Arabic, Hindi, and more) compiled cleanly inside a standalone Languages.cs file. Fallbacks safely to English.

5. 🎮 Game Mode Resource Optimizer

• Hides the dock automatically and sleeps all transition rendering timers when a full-screen game or application is focused, ensuring maximum frame rate and zero CPU/GPU overhead.

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🛠️ Building and Running

OpenDock relies entirely on native Win32/COM/DWM APIs. You do not need to install complex framework packages to compile it.

1. Clone or download the repository.
2. Open OpenDock.sln inside Visual Studio (2019, 2022 or higher).
3. Set your build configuration to Release (or Debug) and Target CPU to AnyCPU or x64.
4. Press F5 to compile and launch.

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⚙️ Configuration & Customization

• Tray System: Right-click the OpenDock taskbar tray icon to access opacity scales, icon metrics, transition settings, startup automation, and custom layouts.
• CSS Customization: Open opendock.css (generated in the application directory) to adjust clock styles:

/* OpenDock Style Sheet */

.dock {
    /* Background color of the dock (Hex, RGB or RGBA for transparency) */
    background-color: rgba(18, 18, 20, 0.3);

    /* Border color of the dock */
    border-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.15);

    /* Border line width in pixels */
    border-width: 1px;

    /* Corner rounding radius in pixels */
    border-radius: 16px;

    /* Spacing between icons in pixels */
    icon-spacing: 15px;

    /* Magnified icon size when hovered (in pixels, 48 - 128) */
    magnification-size: 48px;
}

.clock {
    font-family: 'Segoe UI';
    font-size: 24px;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #ffffff;
    text-align: right;
}

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📝 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License. Feel free to use, modify, and distribute it as you see fit.