NationStates Jolt Archive

Well, it's been a while since we had a screenshots thread, and the whole "Linux help" thread made curious of how people have their desktops set up. I'll get the ball rolling (click thumbnails for full size):

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7021/skrmbildzm4.th.png (http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7021/skrmbildzm4.png)

That's what it looks like clean: Ubuntu Gutsy (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/desktopedition) with Compiz Fusion (http://www.compiz-fusion.org/) and Avant Window Navigator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_Window_Navigator) (the OS X like dock thingy at the bottom).

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6039/skrmbild1rv8.th.png (http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6039/skrmbild1rv8.png)

That's all my four virtual desktops and what they usually look like cluttered. I make heavy use of the Compiz Cube and the Expo mode you can see above to manage the mess (the Expo mode is not just pretty, it lets you manipulate and move the windows across desktops directly).

So, what does your desktop look like? Describe what you show us, please.

This is my desktop, it's Windows so it's fairly self-explanatory and not very fancy, but that's how I like it. The left side has fallen into a bit of disrepair though because I never use it. I never use any of the shortcuts except the game ones really, everything in the middle I open through Start or the quick launch icons on the task-bar.

I wanted it full-size, but it was too big and imageshack wouldn't let me :(
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8091/desktoppq1.png

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/infiniterevolution/NewBitmapImage2.jpg

Fass, you just had to do this when I was doing a dist-upgrade on my laptop, which is maxing out my shitty, Canadian internet. I'll have pics in about ten or so minutes.

http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/6587/desktopzp3.jpg
By jeruselem (http://profile.imageshack.us/user/jeruselem)

It's a Windows XP SP2 using the Zune desktop theme and with the Mac OS X (Leopard) background.
My work PC desktop is even more cluttered but I don't want to post that one.

EDIT - New background to replace dodgy one

I use this for my desktop:

http://www.boomspeed.com/looonatic/scrat.jpg

:)

Screenshot of my Mac OS X v.10.5 (Leopard):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/aedrais/Picture1.png (Apparently, I fail at posting thumbnails, so I'll just leave you with a link.)

I rarely have icons on my desktop, other than the Mac HD icon and my Pictures folder. When I was still using windows I had MSN, Limewire, and Firefox as desktop icons as well as my pictures folder and the recycle bin. Anything more than five icons and my desktop starts to feel too cluttered - I'm absolutely OCD about my desktop being "tidy".

As for backgrounds, they're almost always black-and-white photographs, usually street photography or scenes from some sort of European city. My favourite background is a photo of a Parisian street, but I needed a change.

Screenshot of my Mac OS X v.10.5 (Leopard):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v67/aedrais/Picture1.png (Apparently, I fail at posting thumbnails, so I'll just leave you with a link.)

I rarely have icons on my desktop, other than the Mac HD icon and my Pictures folder. When I was still using windows I had MSN, Limewire, and Firefox as desktop icons as well as my pictures folder and the recycle bin. Anything more than five icons and my desktop starts to feel too cluttered - I'm absolutely OCD about my desktop being "tidy".

As for backgrounds, they're almost always black-and-white photographs, usually street photography or scenes from some sort of European city. My favourite background is a photo of a Parisian street, but I needed a change.

mine is the antithesis of yours. and fass'.

My work PC desktop is even more cluttered but I don't want to post that one.

At least the icons are in rows and somewhat neat in their abundance... but what is up with that systray?

Edit: I didn't know one could timewarp over one's own posts. Jolt is getting creepier by the day.

I never use any of the shortcuts except the game ones really, everything in the middle I open through Start or the quick launch icons on the task-bar.

Then why all the icons?

http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h211/infiniterevolution/NewBitmapImage2.jpg

I have to ask the same thing - it looks so untidy.

Anything more than five icons and my desktop starts to feel too cluttered - I'm absolutely OCD about my desktop being "tidy".

I hears ya, and OCD really is the right word for it. When I was writing my "thesis-lite", I used my desktop as middle storage for several documents. Never again.

My favourite background is a photo of a Parisian street, but I needed a change.

You take them yourself?

Then why all the icons?

I don't really know, I guess because I hardly ever see or use my desktop I don't really care about deleting some of the icons it came with or that I left there when I first got it.

I just deleted a few (all three columns are contained in the sky now), but left the ones I usually get through the start bar just in case one day I remember to do it the quick way :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/TheQ2005/Miscellaneous/captured37.jpg

It's Windows Vista, using the default Aero theme with a background from the Drowtales (http://www.drowtales.com) webcomic. I try to keep it uncluttered as all those icons that many people have pouring over their desktop tend to drive me mad. Only the programs that I use the most or that are usually buried within the Start menu get the desktop treatment.

I have to ask the same thing - it looks so untidy.


my desktop is a minimalist reflection of my general state of being.

I just deleted a few

See, this thread is already doing good! :)

my desktop is a minimalist reflection of my general state of being.

Which is unclean? Or scattered? *must not judge, must not judge*

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9919/nldesktopoe3.th.png (http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/9919/nldesktopoe3.png)

Edited...Thanks.

http://www.weaselhut.net/desktop.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v73/TheQ2005/Miscellaneous/captured37.jpg[

Heh, Frostwire... and I was thinking about minimising that torrent client window one could see on one of my desktops. We thieve, that's what we do.

[http://www.weaselhut.net/desktop.png

Pretty background image. Burger Rush? Oh, and Azureus... hmm, you might want to consider µTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/). Much lighter and infinitely kinder to resources.

my clock seems to be 5 mins ahead of everyone elses. wtf?


edit: see, look. i posted this a while after wytyg.

I hears ya, and OCD really is the right word for it. When I was writing my "thesis-lite", I used my desktop as middle storage for several documents. Never again.

You take them yourself?

God, I can't store files on my desktop. I'd go mental. Even my folders themselves are organised to an extreme degree.

And sadly, no. :( I'm hoping to do an exchange to Paris for a semester sometime in the next year or two, so I'll take a few (or a million) then.

Which is unclean? Or scattered? *must not judge, must not judge*

both, and more. *is immune from judgement*

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/th_Unbenannt-1.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Unbenannt-1.jpg)

I actually changed my wallpaper. :o

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/th_Unbenannt-1.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Unbenannt-1.jpg)

I actually changed my wallpaper. :o



... oh my god. I have the exact same photo, which is also in the general background rotation. :p

Ok, so here are my screenshots.

The first would be Windows Vista on my Desktop.
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/9418/41600955mz1.th.png (http://img84.imageshack.us/my.php?image=41600955mz1.png)
It is a dual head setup which is why it is so wide. I use the same image on both desktops as I really do not use it enough to spend the time finding a 2560x1024 image that can take the division well.

The next image is my laptop.
http://img113.imageshack.us/img113/1438/snapshot1ch4.th.png (http://img113.imageshack.us/my.php?image=snapshot1ch4.png)
It is a combination of Debian unstable and experimental running KDE4. It is a default installation, except I have turned KWin effects on. Its not bad for a x.0.0 release, but it is a x.0.0 release.

I have a Gnome Desktop too, but I am not going to post it. It is rather plain at the moment. It is off a fresh install, so I have yet to bother prettying it up.

Well, it's been a while since we had a screenshots thread, and the whole "Linux help" thread made curious of how people have their desktops set up. I'll get the ball rolling (click thumbnails for full size):

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7021/skrmbildzm4.th.png (http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7021/skrmbildzm4.png)

That's what it looks like clean: Ubuntu Gutsy (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/desktopedition) with Compiz Fusion (http://www.compiz-fusion.org/) and Avant Window Navigator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_Window_Navigator) (the OS X like dock thingy at the bottom).

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6039/skrmbild1rv8.th.png (http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6039/skrmbild1rv8.png)

That's all my four virtual desktops and what they usually look like cluttered. I make heavy use of the Compiz Cube and the Expo mode you can see above to manage the mess (the Expo mode is not just pretty, it lets you manipulate and move the windows across desktops directly).

So, what does your desktop look like? Describe what you show us, please.
I am curious as to what you did with gnome-panel. I thought it was not possible to go without a panel with the current Gnome desktop.

Well, it's been a while since we had a screenshots thread, and the whole "Linux help" thread made curious of how people have their desktops set up. I'll get the ball rolling (click thumbnails for full size):

http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7021/skrmbildzm4.th.png (http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/7021/skrmbildzm4.png)

That's what it looks like clean: Ubuntu Gutsy (http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/desktopedition) with Compiz Fusion (http://www.compiz-fusion.org/) and Avant Window Navigator (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant_Window_Navigator) (the OS X like dock thingy at the bottom).

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6039/skrmbild1rv8.th.png (http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6039/skrmbild1rv8.png)

That's all my four virtual desktops and what they usually look like cluttered. I make heavy use of the Compiz Cube and the Expo mode you can see above to manage the mess (the Expo mode is not just pretty, it lets you manipulate and move the windows across desktops directly).

So, what does your desktop look like? Describe what you show us, please.

My home desktop is the generic Windows background with a few sprase icons.

My work computer has the icons arranged to form my initials, with one of those 3d-rendered images in the background from one of those sites. I can't remember now.

Strangely enough, despite the odd arrangement of icons on my work desktop, I can find every single icon (and there are a lot of them) on command.

http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nldesktopoe3.png

Can anyone explain the code needed to make a thumbnail?
I dunno, it's an option on Photobucket, you click it and then copy the line it gives you. <<

http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nldesktopoe3.png

Can anyone explain the code needed to make a thumbnail?

1. I could lick and hump that car.
2. You use the "thumbnail for forums" code Imageshack gives you, but replace the url bit of the BBCode with the "direct link" url - that way your thumbnail will link directly to the image instead of an Imageshack page with the image.

I'm hoping to do an exchange to Paris for a semester sometime in the next year or two, so I'll take a few (or a million) then.

Do it! You'll love Paris, it's amazing. I lived there for a short while and pine for it regularly.

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/th_Unbenannt-1.jpg[/URL]

I actually changed my wallpaper. :o

1. Aaah, her perky boobs are the only thing keeping her from certain, drowny death!
2. "Arbeitsplatz" - Who you kidding?

Pretty background image. Burger Rush? Oh, and Azureus... hmm, you might want to consider µTorrent (http://www.utorrent.com/). Much lighter and infinitely kinder to resources.

Burger Rush... heh. Just a low-budget puzzle game where you match 3 ingredients in a row. It's like Diner Dash but for people who like Tetris knock-offs. I use the older Azureus before it became all bloated. I downloaded it fro, oldapps.com, a good place to find the older version of software. Plus uTorrent doesn't have the encryption options that Azureus has, which I use to avoid having my throughput fucked with because Rogers is run by inept fucktards who would limit my download capacity if it knew what packets were coming through.

... oh my god. I have the exact same photo, which is also in the general background rotation. :p
Heh, I got it stumbled to me again and again until I finally realized that it would make a great background. Mainly because I've had this pic:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/th_30easterslidecrater.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/30easterslidecrater.jpg)
as a background for years and couldn't bear the thought of parting with it. It's so calming. Which is good for a desktop. *nod*

http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nldesktopoe3.png

Can anyone explain the code needed to make a thumbnail?

Ah, whatever else, you have good taste in cars at times...;p

Mine is on a big ass rotation, but this is what it is right now:
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/486/screenshotdo3.png
When that episode aired I immediately checked to see if Comic Book Guy's website existed and it did and there it was...

http://img143.imageshack.us/my.php?image=nldesktopoe3.png

Can anyone explain the code needed to make a thumbnail?
When you upload an image via imageshack, it gives you a few outputs.Two are Hotlink for web forums (some forums are case sensitive, so they must include both upper and lower case code). What happens is imageshack both saves your image untouched and creates a thumbnail. The forum code displays the thumbnail while linking to the fullsize. You pretty much have to copy and paste the code it gives you as you will never be able to build the url -- parts are randomly generated.

both, and more. *is immune from judgement*

But not from virtual leprosy. Leper!

Ok, so here are my screenshots.

Your Vista is pretty. KDE4... I just don't get the huge panel and the huge icons they're going with. I just don't.

I am curious as to what you did with gnome-panel. I thought it was not possible to go without a panel with the current Gnome desktop.

It's autohidden at the top and I edited its Gconf settings to make its autohidden size 0 pixels, so it's not visible as that annoying strip. I didn't know it couldn't be removed completely, because I never tried removing it - I have it left for the systray alerts, but I use AWN's own notification daemon to pretty them up and have them display anywhere I want on the screen.

Plus uTorrent doesn't have the encryption options that Azureus has, which I use to avoid having my throughput fucked with because Rogers is run by inept fucktards who would limit my download capacity if it knew what packets were coming through.

I seem to recall µTorrent having an encryption option - you could set it to "enabled" and "forced". Azureus has something better?

2. "Arbeitsplatz" - Who you kidding?
All blame falls squarely on Microsoft here.

Mine is on a big ass rotation, but this is what it is right now:
http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/486/screenshotdo3.png

Sexy. Baryshnikov, too.

All blame falls squarely on Microsoft here.

They call it that? All we get is a semi-directly translated "Den här datorn" ("This computer").

Do it! You'll love Paris, it's amazing. I lived there for a short while and pine for it regularly.

I'm double majoring in English Lit and Foreign Languages, Italian and French being the primary languages. One day, I'd like to move to France for at least a couple of years. Best way to learn a language is to immerse oneself in it, after all. Besides, I'm basically in love with the place and I haven't even been there yet. :p Was going to move there next summer with the ex for a few months, but that's obviously no longer a plan... so I'll just take myself there.

But not from virtual leprosy. Leper!

nooooo!!!!!!!!!! my computer fell off!

Heh, Frostwire... and I was thinking about minimising that torrent client window one could see on one of my desktops. We thieve, that's what we do.I had thought about removing it, but said "Screw it". No point in lying and taking off what's really on my desktop.

*shrug*

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v229/Lasteen/desktop.png

And before anyone accuses me of porn on the desktop, it's not. There were two pictures of my face, which I couldn't be bothered to move. ;)

They call it that? All we get is a semi-directly translated "Den här datorn" ("This computer").Yeah. Took me forever to figure out that Arbeitsplatz and My Computer are the same thing, too. ><

Your Vista is pretty. KDE4... I just don't get the huge panel and the huge icons they're going with. I just don't.
It is one of the included images. Unfortunately, my absolute favorite wallpaper was removed late in the public beta cycle.

Big Panels are a KDE tradition. I hate them, but certain things are still missing configuration dialouges. The panel is one of them. I'll check ~/.kde4 sometime to see if there is a text file to be hacked.


It's autohidden at the top and I edited its Gconf settings to make its autohidden size 0 pixels, so it's not visible as that annoying strip. I didn't know it couldn't be removed completely, because I never tried removing it - I have it left for the systray alerts, but I use AWN's own notification daemon to pretty them up and have them display anywhere I want on the screen.You are a genious.

What a coincidence! I just replaced my background picture today after the mail man delivered a good part of my childhood on DVD!

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/FallGuyDesktop_TN.jpg (http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/FallGuyDesktop.jpg)

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg276/algernonseptimus/desk.jpg

My Laptop Desktop... on an oldish IBM Thinkpad T23

http://thecomputerman.dyndns.biz/tekania/laptop_desktop.jpg

My home system, homebuilt AMD Athy-64 X2 running Win2k3 Server Enterprise

http://thecomputerman.dyndns.biz/tekania/tek_desktop.jpg

http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4054/desktopco7.th.jpg (http://img222.imageshack.us/img222/4054/desktopco7.jpg)

http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2504/exposm8.th.jpg (http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/2504/exposm8.jpg)

I use Ubuntu, sometimes with Compiz Fusion, sometimes without. It's fairly standard, except I use a single panel on the bottom of the screen. I'm also sticking to regular Metacity themes despite the awfully aliased window corners, because they're still better looking.

I never use Expo (the feature the second screenshot shows), but I used it now just to show what kind of programs I usually have running. I always have Firefox on workspace 1, bittorrent on workspace 3, IRC on workspace 4 and random stuff (right now only a terminal window) on workspace 2.

And finally, my wallpaper is this: http://jason-c.deviantart.com/art/Cosmic-Orange-63139800

pretty standard Vista fare. only got new lappy a few days ago. i have used the Dreamscene video desktops but i didn't really see the point after a while

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5113/desktop150108xe0.th.jpg (http://img225.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop150108xe0.jpg)

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7434/desktop1501082wl1.th.jpg (http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=desktop1501082wl1.jpg)

Big Panels are a KDE tradition. I hate them, but certain things are still missing configuration dialouges. The panel is one of them. I'll check ~/.kde4 sometime to see if there is a text file to be hacked.

Yeah, but that's huge even for KDE. So, the rumours I hear of 4.0 being not at all complete, but still released for some reason, are true

You are a genious.

Genius, even, but since you've buttered me up I'll tell you how it's done: In Gconf Editor, go to Apps -> Panel -> Toplevels -> top_panel_screen0 -> auto_hide_size. You can also change the values of "hide_delay" and "unhide_delay" to make the panel not have those annoying, well, delays before showing and hiding.

http://citron.quickshareit.com/share/picture11aee0.png

Best movie ever.

Also: Wow. Spaces is totally not plagiarised.

Also: Wow. Spaces is totally not plagiarised.

*nixes have had virtual desktops for probably more than a decade, I can't believe it took Apple this long to get "inspired".

http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y223/GermanNightmare/FallGuyDesktop_TN.jpg

http://i250.photobucket.com/albums/gg276/algernonseptimus/desk.jpg

http://thecomputerman.dyndns.biz/tekania/tek_desktop.jpg

You people and your icon fetish. There ought to be a law.

Oh, it's the XP "hide stuff you aren't really using" mode in my systray.
It's an ASUS laptop with the extras they install.

Get rid of them?

What? Får inte jag en käck kommentar av Fassitude? :)

At least the icons are in rows and somewhat neat in their abundance... but what is up with that systray?

Edit: I didn't know one could timewarp over one's own posts. Jolt is getting creepier by the day.

Oh, it's the XP "hide stuff you aren't really using" mode in my systray.
It's an ASUS laptop with the extras they install.

http://files.myopera.com/RWgirl/albums/234727/ScreenHunter_03%20Jan.%2014%2016.35.png

Geeky thread. Geeky creator.

Oh, it's the XP "hide stuff you aren't really using" mode in my systray.

You mean "XP hide the next thing you are going to need" mode ... ;)

If Fass thinks I'm going to put my desktop up so he can psychoanalyze me, he has another think coming.

My desktop background is a void. I see no reason for the distraction of a background image on my computer.

You people and your icon fetish. There ought to be a law.

Well, with the exception of the last couple of icons on my home system, I only have programs I use frequently on my desktop... My start Menu's so big I have it categorized under sub-menus such as "Games", "Productivity", "Multimedia", "Utilities", etc.

Get rid of them?

I do use them once in a while especially the one which controls power saving as I hiberate the laptop quite a bit.

What? Får inte jag en käck kommentar av Fassitude? :)

Jag måste ha missat dig... aha, Bredbandsbolagets 100 mbit fiber, eller hur? Jag föraktar såväl dig som min hyresvärd. Och igen med alla dessa ikoner! Vad hände med den skandinaviska ytan och tomheten?

http://files.myopera.com/RWgirl/albums/234727/ScreenHunter_03%20Jan.%2014%2016.35.png

Where is that from? Some sort of... well, I don't know what they're called... paraglider?

If Fass thinks I'm going to put my desktop up so he can psychoanalyze me, he has another think coming.

Don't be such a wimp.

I've had this background for the past few months.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w142/Blue_Pheasant/Desktop2.jpg

Damn you guys use a lot of icons. I only have 10 and I use the plain blue background. I like it Firefox simple.

Geeky thread. Geeky creator.

You're just afraid to post your swastika background.

I do use them once in a while especially the one which controls power saving as I hiberate the laptop quite a bit.

I'm of the experience that all those are nothing but more obtrusive frontends to what Windows does on its own anyway.

This is my desktop, it's Windows so it's fairly self-explanatory and not very fancy, but that's how I like it. The left side has fallen into a bit of disrepair though because I never use it. I never use any of the shortcuts except the game ones really, everything in the middle I open through Start or the quick launch icons on the task-bar.

I wanted it full-size, but it was too big and imageshack wouldn't let me :(
http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8091/desktoppq1.png

Dryks Legacy, the picture on your desktop looks very familiar where is it?

Does quite a good job, I get about 2 hours on battery in power saving mode. Best the laptop can do is about 2.25 hours.

Doesn't sound like considerably more than Windows can accomplish on its own, really.

I'm of the experience that all those are nothing but more obtrusive frontends to what Windows does on its own anyway.

Does quite a good job, I get about 2 hours on battery in power saving mode. Best the laptop can do is about 2.25 hours.

Damn you guys use a lot of icons. I only have 10 and I use the plain blue background. I like it Firefox simple.

My desktop is like my real-life desk, cluttered.

thread inspired me to change back to one of my old (motivational) wallpapers :)

http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/894/desktop1501083ym7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Jag måste ha missat dig... aha, Bredbandsbolagets 100 mbit fiber, eller hur? Jag föraktar såväl dig som min hyresvärd. Och igen med alla dessa ikoner! Vad hände med den skandinaviska ytan och tomheten?


It's okay. I'm just bored, kept refreshing the page for any replies! :p Ikoner Ikoner... I try to keep it simple but I use so damn many of them so I just put the once I use the most on the desktop while still trying to keep it neat.

Den skandinaviska ytan & tomheten kan ses bland mina kläder, tyvärr. Svart, denim och åter svart! :D

Since I slept the computer it now has a new image, I believe this is Jim Clark behind the wheel of a Lotus 18.
http://img156.imageshack.us/img156/17/screenshotoi7.png

I hate icons. I use only the Start Menu to find programs, and I've created a hierachical tree within the Start Menu so no one menu has more than 9 entries (so I usually have to go at least 5 layers deep to find a given application).

Right now this (http://rubendevela.deviantart.com/art/Inspector-Gadget-19562726) is my desktop.

Before that, my desktop was of an Imperial Scout Trooper doing a wheelie on a Yamaha...which I unfortunately don't have a link to right now...

I hate icons. I use only the Start Menu to find programs, and I've created a hierachical tree within the Start Menu so no one menu has more than 9 entries (so I usually have to go at least 5 layers deep to find a given application).

that sounds like pointless hassle. everything i ever use is on my desktop. including things i use less than once a year. i never have to use the start menu. unless i forget to check "create desktop shortcut" when installing a programme.

it's not very good quality, but I like it. Looks better in real duh.


http://img257.imageshack.us/my.php?image=cf1yi4.png

Oh, if someone can point me to the full widescreen version of Mac OS X 10.5 Aurora background. The one I'm using is a scaled up version of tiny version.

Oh, if someone can point me to the full widescreen version of Mac OS X 10.5 Aurora background. The one I'm using is a scaled up version of tiny version.

Google Image Search for osx and aurora, select Extra Large Images, hit three and four.

Well, I've taken over another computer because mine is almost dead. So...

http://http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff287/johnnybmetal/screenshot-1-13-08.png

Here in all its glory. The sidebar is Google Gadgets, BTW.

Google Image Search for osx and aurora, select Extra Large Images, hit three and four.

Thanks! Looks a lot better now (scaling up created weird square stars)

that sounds like pointless hassle. everything i ever use is on my desktop. including things i use less than once a year. i never have to use the start menu. unless i forget to check "create desktop shortcut" when installing a programme.
It means everything I want is easily locatable using a simple naming convention. Stuff I access regularly I can find in about a second.

I find this much better than icons because Windows insists on rearranging icons whenever I chance my screen resolution (it wants all the icons to fit on the screen all the time), which means the icon I want isn't always in the same spot.

The menu never sorts itself, so I never have that problem.

Does quite a good job, I get about 2 hours on battery in power saving mode. Best the laptop can do is about 2.25 hours.

I get about 5 hours on my Thinkpad, but that's with the DVD replaced with a second battery...

Where is that from? Some sort of... well, I don't know what they're called... paraglider?

It's a Cessna 182 that's been modified for skydiving. That's over the not- so- pretty part of the Southern Willamette Valley.

It means everything I want is easily locatable using a simple naming convention. Stuff I access regularly I can find in about a second.

I find this much better than icons because Windows insists on rearranging icons whenever I chance my screen resolution (it wants all the icons to fit on the screen all the time), which means the icon I want isn't always in the same spot.

The menu never sorts itself, so I never have that problem.

i see, i don't think i've ever had reason to change the screen resolution on this computer.

I get about 5 hours on my Thinkpad, but that's with the DVD replaced with a second battery...

Well, there's only so much an 6-cell battery can do.
I'd get a better battery but I can't.

It can do about 4 hours if I run it in maximum powersaving uberslow battery mode which I don't since running the Intel T5600 at 1Ghz is slow enough.

My desktop is usually completely covered in icons, but I got rid of some disused ones when I put this background on it so I could see the pic better.

I like everything to be accessible with one click. Hiding away things I use is adding extra work for nothing.

http://www.scalesetc.com/desktop.jpg

Which is unclean? Or scattered?
Unclean and cluttered! My physical desk would probably give you nightmares...

Not scattered at all, though. I know where everything (that's worth finding) in my mess is. *Other people* would be totally baffled. Which is the point.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/Goomg/other/th_0b3560bb.jpg (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y79/Goomg/other/0b3560bb.jpg)

I find this much better than icons because Windows insists on rearranging icons whenever I chance my screen resolution (it wants all the icons to fit on the screen all the time), which means the icon I want isn't always in the same spot.

Allow me to introduce you and others to a little tool/util I love and use frequently: Iconoid (http://www.sillysot.com/).

http://www.weaselhut.net/images/iconoid.png

It's a smart little programme that I have been using for a long time. If Windows ever tries to rearrange my desktop icons, I simply open this, and tell it to reset my icons to the original places where I put them.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/shaddamIV/Desktop-5.jpg

Image is of the first transistor, obviously a rather important discovery for me. ;)

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/shaddamIV/Desktop-5.jpg

Image is of the first transistor, obviously a rather important discovery for me. ;)

it looks like a mangled food processor.

Yeah, but that's huge even for KDE. So, the rumours I hear of 4.0 being not at all complete, but still released for some reason, are trueThe premature release was to get third party developers involved. They provide a suprisingly large portion of what most users expect to be there, so they need to be ready for when KDE4 is ready for inclusion by distributions. In case you where wondering, the default panel is 56 pixels tall.
Genius, even, but since you've buttered me up I'll tell you how it's done: In Gconf Editor, go to Apps -> Panel -> Toplevels -> top_panel_screen0 -> auto_hide_size. You can also change the values of "hide_delay" and "unhide_delay" to make the panel not have those annoying, well, delays before showing and hiding.
Thanks.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a335/shaddamIV/Desktop-5.jpg

Image is of the first transistor, obviously a rather important discovery for me. ;)

I'd like see an CPU made of those!

Mine is this pic (http://www.maj.com/gallery/Errikland/Misc/napoleon_bonaparte.png); my other major choices, like this one (http://www.maj.com/gallery/Errikland/Misc/j_caesar_01.png) were too small. One of them was my copy of that nuke pic, though not with the text, which really makes me lol.

The premature release was to get third party developers involved. They provide a suprisingly large portion of what most users expect to be there, so they need to be ready for when KDE4 is ready for inclusion by distributions.

I think this is more about beta (or alpha even) testing on as many users as possible. There was nothing stopping developers from checking out KDE4 before the release, but now a lot of regular people are doing it who otherwise wouldn't.

One minute they say you shouldn't use KDE 4.0 because it's not ready and the next they say that all the testers/users will help make KDE 4.1 a better product, practically admitting that they intended for this to happen, and that the naming issue was part of the plan. I think the KDE folks handled this extremely poorly.

Mine is this pic (http://www.maj.com/gallery/Errikland/Misc/napoleon_bonaparte.png)

That horse is far too cheerful.

it looks like a mangled food processor.

It looks like...yeah, that's about right.

I think this is more about beta (or alpha even) testing on as many users as possible. There was nothing stopping developers from checking out KDE4 before the release, but now a lot of regular people are doing it who otherwise wouldn't.

One minute they say you shouldn't use KDE 4.0 because it's not ready and the next they say that all the testers/users will help make KDE 4.1 a better product, practically admitting that they intended for this to happen, and that the naming issue was part of the plan. I think the KDE folks handled this extremely poorly.

There's a live Kubuntu 7.10 with KDE 4.0 on it available for testing.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff131/mariposa231/untitled.jpg
Ehh..still the same one that I had the last time. Time for a change I think!

Heh, I got it stumbled to me again and again until I finally realized that it would make a great background. Mainly because I've had this pic:
http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/th_30easterslidecrater.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/30easterslidecrater.jpg)
as a background for years and couldn't bear the thought of parting with it. It's so calming. Which is good for a desktop. *nod*

Isn't that where the Tellytubbies live?

... oh my god. I have the exact same photo, which is also in the general background rotation. :p

That is *SO* awesome.
:)

http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/th_Unbenannt-1.jpg (http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l192/whereyouthinkyougoing/Unbenannt-1.jpg)

I actually changed my wallpaper. :o
Mine's from your photo thread. Guess which?

that sounds like pointless hassle. everything i ever use is on my desktop. including things i use less than once a year. i never have to use the start menu. unless i forget to check "create desktop shortcut" when installing a programme.

mm... i hate using desktop icons too, so i usually use the quick launch bar for my most oft-used apps (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc)

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff131/mariposa231/untitled.jpg
Ehh..still the same one that I had the last time. Time for a change I think!

:eek: my brain! :eek:

Here's an approximate view of my desktop:


There is no image, as I have no desktop.

You people and your icon fetish. There ought to be a law.
Oh, there is a law on my computer: Have an icon for each application on the desktop. :D

This is an older one, but I still use the same image on one of the virtual desktops:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k117/SystemKarela/stuff/Bildschirmphoto2.png

I do no longer use Kopete and kpf though.

Ive got an 'Ol Blue Eyes Is Back' Sven Goran Eriksson Manchester City Football Club desktop ;)

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff131/mariposa231/untitled.jpg
Ehh..still the same one that I had the last time. Time for a change I think!

that is cool, mines is just that crappy desert thing that comes with the computer as mine is really slow and yeah no fair.

that is cool, mines is just that crappy desert thing that comes with the computer as mine is really slow and yeah no fair.
Awesomeness of a graphic doesn't equal RAM usage. Either use none, or get a better one if you think your current one is crappy. Heck, I had something like that on my 486!

my work desktop is a pic of my kids, my fun desktop is this pic that I took

http://photos-a.ak.facebook.com/photos-ak-sf2p/v80/175/54/698315177/n698315177_138712_8680.jpg

You must be really bored, eh? Anyhow, because it's you..

I always use some sort of color for the desktop background with some sort of picture in the middle - the current color (vivid green) and the picture (umm.. a cat-like creature) are rather atypical and were installed at the spur of the moment when making a motivational poster for a friend.

The arrangement of the icons, however, is highly typical; I always have the standard Microsoft items (My Computer etc.) in the upper left-hand corner; my music folder(s) and the folder for miscellaneous, rarely-used stuff that would otherwise clutter the desktop below them; my document-y folders in the upper right-hand corner and the few choice documents I'm currently quick-accessing a lot arranged right under the picture.

http://i6.tinypic.com/8bdxcvl.jpg

My desktop is laid out in the exact same way as the OP's, however I adapted a script from the internet so my background changes every 10 minutes to a random one form my backgrounds folder, mist of which are fantasy pictures, or pictures by Victoria Frances