claude desktop skin

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About this project

Claude Desktop Skin offers a tailored layout for the Claude app, featuring a two-column sidebar, adjustable project colors, and optimized chat space. This unofficial enhancement uses plain CSS and JavaScript, ensuring a seamless experience without permanent modifications. Set it up easily and customize your workspace effortlessly.

The Claude Desktop Skin project offers a customized layout for the Claude desktop application, enhancing user experience by providing a two-column sidebar, customizable project colors and tags, a wider chat interface, and reducing wasted space. The solution is implemented using plain CSS and JavaScript that runs within the app's developer console, ensuring that the original interface can be restored with a simple restart.

Key Features

Enhanced Sidebar Layout: The custom skin implements a two-column sidebar that allows for better organization of projects. Users can choose where the right column begins, making it easier to manage multiple sessions and projects simultaneously.
Customizable Appearance: Users can personalize project colors and tags, catering to their organizational preferences. The skin allows for smaller text and tighter rows, fitting more sessions on the screen, and even has adjustable sidebar width ranging from 170 to 600 pixels.
Wider Chat Experience: The chat interface allows for a wider message area, cutting down empty space around messages, while keeping the message box manageable with a maximum of 8 visible lines before scrolling.
Optional Configuration: Additional configurations, such as blocking accidental session switching during usage, can also be implemented through the skin's configuration files.

Setup Options

Users can easily apply the skin using two methods:

Automated Setup: For non-technical users, simply open a session in the Claude desktop app's Code tab and paste a predefined prompt, allowing Claude to guide through the setup step by step. This method simplifies the entire process and includes instructions on how the layout will change.
```
I want to customise the layout of my Claude desktop app with Claude Desktop Skin:
https://github.com/mohannad789/claude-desktop-skin
```
Manual Setup: Users familiar with code can download the skin files, enable Developer Mode within the app, and run provided scripts to apply the skin.

Steps include downloading files, enabling Developer Mode, applying the skin via the developer console, and optionally setting it to apply automatically on startup.

Use Cases

Project Management: Ideal for users with multiple projects or sessions, this skin allows for better visualization and management, reducing clutter and enhancing productivity.
Customization: Users can tailor their experience according to their workflow, with options for changing project colors and text sizes according to preference.

Why Choose Claude Desktop Skin?

The enhancements provided by Claude Desktop Skin were developed out of a necessity for a more efficient workspace tailored to heavy users of the Claude application. Rather than being merely a cosmetic change, it addresses practical usability concerns by allowing better navigation and a less cluttered view.

Contribution and Development

The project is open to contributions, allowing users to propose ideas, fixes, or enhance functionality based on user feedback or changes in the Claude application due to updates. With a focus on community involvement, users can also provide insights based on different operating systems, such as Windows.

For further details, visit the GitHub repository to explore installation instructions, screenshots of the interface changes, and further documentation.