The Desktop now works like a real one

What changed

The Desktop used to look like a page of buttons. It now behaves the way Windows and macOS do:

• The whole screen is the desk. In the Windows and macOS themes the wallpaper runs edge to edge down to the taskbar; the page title, the arrange buttons and the tab bar above it are gone.
• Icons are selected, then opened. A click selects an icon, a double click (or Enter) opens it. On a phone or tablet a tap opens it. Drag on an empty part of the desk to draw a selection box around several icons; Ctrl/⌘ and Shift add to the selection; the arrow keys move between icons, and typing a letter jumps to the icon whose name starts with it.
• A right click opens a menu that fits what you clicked: on the desk — "Icon size", "Sort by", "Arrange windows", "Show the desktop", "Close all windows", "Wallpaper" and "Reload the page"; on an icon — "Open this screen" or "Open the folder", and "Open in a new tab"; on a window's title bar or its taskbar button — maximize or restore, minimize, reload, open in a new tab, close.
• Windows behave like windows. They resize from all four edges and corners, snap to a half when dragged to a side edge and to a quarter when dragged into a corner (a preview shows where they will land), and a maximised window dragged by its title bar comes back to its own size under the pointer. The window you are working in stands out, clicking inside a window brings it to the front, a loading indicator shows until the screen arrives, and opening, closing and minimising are animated.
• Open windows sit on the taskbar in the Windows theme and in the Dock in the macOS theme, with each screen's own icon. Clicking the window in front minimises it; the middle mouse button closes it. The thin strip at the far end of the taskbar shows the desktop and, pressed again, brings the windows back. The Desktop's own taskbar button does the same.
• Every section has a colour. Apps wear the colour of their section, so you can find them before reading the label. The wallpaper and accent colour you chose in the console's settings now show on the Desktop too.
• The "What's new" window no longer opens inside every window — only once, on the Desktop itself.

How to use it

1. Open the Desktop: "Home" → "Businesses dashboard" → "Desktop" (in the Windows and macOS themes it is your home screen).
2. Double-click a folder to see its screens, then double-click a screen to open it in a window.
3. Right-click an empty part of the desk to change "Icon size", "Sort by" ("Most used" or "Name, A to Z"), or to arrange your windows "Side by side", in a "Grid" or as a "Cascade".
4. Drag a window by its title bar to a side edge or a corner of the screen to snap it.

Good to know

• Icon size, sort order and the windows you leave open are remembered in this browser, for your account.
• At most twelve windows stay open; opening a thirteenth closes the one you used least recently.
• The themes without a taskbar list the open windows under the desk, as before.