desktop-icons/README.md
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# desktop-icons
> Show Files from a Directory on the Desktop
## Features
- [X] Show content from a folder as Icons on the Desktop
- [X] Use xdg_user_dir to use the default desktop directory
- [X] Start default application for the active file
- [X] Update the Icons on changes to the directory (added/removed files)
- [X] Drag and Drop Files from/to the Desktop
- [X] Launching Apps from the Desktop
- [ ] Multi-Monitor Support
- [ ] Thumbnails for Images/Documents
- [ ] Sort Rows of List Store based on Name/Type/Date
- [ ] Context-Menu for creating files
## Supported Desktops
> Quoted from [gtk-layer-shell](https://github.com/wmww/gtk-layer-shell)
This application only works on Wayland, and only on Wayland compositors that
support the Layer Shell protocol. Layer shell **is supported** on:
- wlroots based compositors (such as **Sway**)
- Mir-based compositors (some may not enable the protocol by default and require
`--add-wayland-extension zwlr_layer_shell_v1`)
Layer shell **is not supported** on:
- Gnome-on-Wayland
- Any X11 desktop
## Getting Started
### Dependencies
- gtk+-3.0
- gtk-layer-shell
Arch
```sh
sudo pacman -S gtk3 gtk-layer-shell
```
### Installation
```sh
git clone https://github.com/Geronymos/desktop-icons
cd desktop-icons
make
sudo make install
```
Uninstall
```sh
sudo make uninstall
```
### Development
Dependencies
- bear
To have warnings and autocompletion with clangd in Vim you can generate the
`compile-commands.json` with
```sh
make clangd
```
## License
This project is licensed under the GPL-3 License - see the `LICENSE` file for details