0:01 If you want to completely change the
0:03 look and feel of your Windows 11
0:07 desktop, then this is probably the best
0:10 application for that. It is called Calm
0:12 UI. This is a free and open-source
0:14 application. And the description of this
0:16 application says the fully customizable
0:20 desktop environment for Windows 10 and
0:22 11. This is kind of like a desktop
0:26 environment for Windows just like in
0:28 Linux. Like Linux has many desktop
0:31 environments like Gnome, KDE, many
0:34 others. So this is somewhat similar. It
0:36 changes the look and feel. At least you
0:39 get the Mac style dock. Now you can also
0:42 have the animations, the wave animation
0:45 and you get the top bar at the top just
0:47 like Mac or you can also say Linux,
0:49 whatever you prefer. And I think this is
0:52 like third video I'm making about this
0:54 because this thing is actually pretty
0:57 good. And just recently there is
0:59 something interesting going on here with
1:01 this application. So let's talk about
1:03 that. So you can get this from Microsoft
1:06 Store. Yes, it's available in Microsoft
1:08 Store or you can go to releases and from
1:12 here you can download the .exe or
1:15 MSIX file and install it whichever you
1:17 prefer. Once you install it, this isn't
1:19 the default look of this. I actually
1:22 customized it by installing the plugins.
1:26 Yes, now it supports plugins and you can
1:28 kind of fully customize this thing to
1:32 your liking. Okay, so at the top you can
1:36 see uh there are colorful icons and
1:39 everything cuz I used the plug-in again.
1:42 So let's open the cylind settings. If
1:45 you go to resources here, you'll see
1:48 bunch of categories. We have themes,
1:50 plug-in, widget, icon pack, wallpaper,
1:52 sound pack. If you go let's say for
1:54 example themes here you can see I have
1:56 downloaded couple of themes here we have
1:58 a new section called discover more
2:01 resources there is a link you just click
2:03 on it it will open your default web
2:06 browser here you can actually download
2:10 themes or plugins and these plugins and
2:12 themes are actually pretty cool like for
2:15 example wave animation I have already
2:17 downloaded this so this is the wave
2:20 animation okay just like in Mac OS It's
2:23 like it feels so good. Okay, it's
2:26 smooth. Look at that. Okay, let's say
2:29 for example, I want to download this
2:32 one. Okay, or maybe this one. With the
2:34 name, without the name. I think we have
2:36 a name here. Okay, with the name. We're
2:39 going to download with the name. Okay,
2:42 this is a system tray menu. This is the
2:45 system tray menu of Calen UI. The
2:47 default one, it's vertical. Uh but we
2:52 can change this to um grid. Okay, we can
2:54 click on download and it will just
2:56 automatically download it to the ceiling
2:58 UI and for the first time it will ask
3:00 you to open sillin UI with this link.
3:02 You'll have to allow that. So I've
3:04 already allowed that. So I'm going to
3:07 click on enable. Once I enable it, if I
3:09 go and check the system tray, you can
3:13 see it's grid now. Okay, there is a
3:17 little bit of overlapping happening. I
3:19 should actually uninstall this one and
3:22 have the icon only. Let's enable it.
3:24 Let's open this. And yeah, this one
3:27 looks much better. When we hover then
3:30 this will show us the name. So this one.
3:32 Oh, it will give you the transparency.
3:35 Let's enable it now. Yeah. Okay.
3:38 Everything became transparent at the
3:40 top. You can see our top bar became
3:42 transparent. I think this looks much
3:45 better. Okay. We can also com compact
3:49 this. There is this uh theme called
3:53 round toolbar is it? Yeah. With this we
3:57 can you know make them come closer. And
3:59 there was a time and date in here which
4:02 I disabled. Let's add the date. That
4:05 looks much better. Tool or media player.
4:07 Let's actually download this. I think I
4:09 can add module from
4:13 here. Uh media.
4:16 Yeah, media player 2. Okay, so we have
4:18 this right now. There is nothing
4:20 playing, but we have the media player
4:23 here. And we can set this to wherever we
4:25 want. When it's playing, it will look
4:28 something like this. Okay, so the name
4:30 of the music and the media control
4:32 buttons and so on. There are many other
4:35 cool plugins that you can download. Now,
4:37 let's just talk about the selen UI and
4:40 its settings. Uh in resources you can
4:42 change the plugins, themes, you know,
4:45 icon packs and everything. If you go to
4:47 the theme section here, you can enable
4:49 and disable the themes that you have
4:51 downloaded. If you go to the fancy
4:53 toolbar, this is for the top bar. Okay,
4:56 you can enable it, disable it. If you
4:58 don't want to use it, yeah, you can uh
5:00 just completely disable it. But if you
5:02 want to use it, you can enable it. You
5:03 can also change the position and all
5:06 that. Okay. Uh we have application
5:09 launcher. I actually prefer the Power
5:11 Toys command pallet. So, I just don't
5:14 use it because it's more powerful. But
5:16 if you want to use a app launcher from
5:19 this, yeah, you can. I think doc is the
5:22 best thing about this application. When
5:26 you enable doc, it actually completely
5:30 hides the Windows taskbar. Okay? It
5:32 doesn't show up even after you hover
5:35 your mouse. So if you want a dog that
5:37 works just like Mac and even has
5:39 animation and all that, this is probably
5:41 the best doc application that you can
5:44 get. I mean again as I said you don't
5:46 have to use everything. You can disable
5:48 every single thing on this like the top
5:50 bar themes and everything. And if you
5:53 just want to use doc you can only enable
5:56 doc window manager. If you're someone
5:59 who wants to use tiling window manager
6:02 then yeah it also has the tiling window
6:03 manager option and the themes and
6:06 plugins that you have downloaded can be
6:09 customized too. So we have individual
6:12 colors in here. Uh so that's why we have
6:15 individual colors in our top bar widgets
6:18 or modules. If I go to the theme and uh
6:21 disable where is the individual colors?
6:24 Yeah, this one. Disable this and save
6:26 it. You can see this is the default
6:29 look, okay, the white. But if you want
6:31 to have individual colors, you can
6:35 download this theme and enable it. And
6:37 you can also go to setting and here you
6:40 can select the color for the module like
6:44 Bluetooth color module. It's reddish. So
6:46 you can see it's red in here. So you can
6:47 give it whatever color you want. These
6:50 are the default. And I think default
6:53 looks good. Okay. You don't really have
6:55 to customize anything. By default,
6:57 everything will look good, but if you
6:59 want to, you have the option. And it
7:01 also supports multiple monitors. This
7:03 app is actually pretty simple. You have
7:05 the top and the top bar. And it works
7:07 really well. I mean, if you want to
7:11 replace the Windows taskbar, yeah, it
7:14 can do that basically if you prefer
7:16 something like that. To be honest, yeah,
7:19 it has the best dock by default. Okay.
7:22 You'll have to download the theme for
7:24 the animations, okay? The if you want
7:26 these animations and after that, this
7:30 will look just amazing. Okay? And it's
7:31 getting better and better. Now, there
7:33 are themes, plugins that you can
7:36 download to make it even better. If you
7:38 want to change the look and feel of your
7:41 regular Windows, yeah, this is pretty
7:43 cool. And on top of that, this is
7:46 completely free and open source, and
7:49 it's fairly popular, too. Yeah, a lot of
7:50 people love this. And yeah, that's it
7:52 for this one. Hope you enjoyed it. But
7:54 if you still have any questions or have
7:56 any suggestions for me, you can always
7:58 do the comments and we can have some
7:59 chitchat in the comment section, too.
8:01 Yeah, that's it. I'll see you in the
8:02 next one. Take care of yourself and have
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