GyroShell

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GyroShell is a shell for Windows 11 (and maybe 10) that aims to provide a customizable and functional shell experience. The shells UI is written in WinUI 3 XAML, and the backend is composed of C#; all brought together by WASDK.

[!WARNING]
GyroShell is currently under heavy development and may not be stable.

:package: Building

To build GyroShell, you’re gonna need a few things.

1. Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 (any edition works)
2. Make sure you’ve installed the .NET Desktop Development workload, with Windows App SDK C# Templates checked in extras.
3. Open the GyroShell project by clicking the GyroShell.sln file in your file explorer.
4. At the top of Visual Studio, click the GyroShell (Packaged) button to compile and start the shell in Debug mode.

⌨️ Developing for GyroShell

GyroShell is an extensible platform that supports external plugins. These plugins enable the community to easily create custom UIs or backend features for the shell. To create custom plugins, check out the wiki.

💿 Installing

To install GyroShell, download the latest release, then install the app package in the downloaded release.

[!NOTE]
Since GyroShell is under development, you may not see any releases. Once a build is stable, it will be released.

🤝 Contributing

To contribute to GyroShell, follow the contribution guide. All contributions are appreciated!

❤️ Major Contributors

People in this section have contributed a significant amount to GyroShell. Thank you, contributors!

• AnalogFeelings - Implemented Dependency Injection, refined the UI, and cleaned up the backend.
• Rounak - Implemented the taskbar icon system and some shell hooking code.
• Misha - Implemented a partial shellhook backend and part of ImmersiveShell.

:balance_scale: License

GyroShell is licensed under the Modified BSD License (3-clause), found here.

Screenshots (subject to change)