Topic awaiting preservation: Share Your Desktop! (Page 1 of 2)

I don't know how well this will go over here but I'm hoping everybody plays along! This is my Desktop at the moment (you all should know who made the background.. If not.. what are you doing here?)



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"I think Bush is an idiot... I think Kerry is an even bigger idiot! Vote Bush 2004!"

I'm new here. Are you suggesting I be signed out already? Maybe I'm still unwell. And I don't like windows 2000, XP or the like.

I think Kerry is a wimp and Bush wrote Wargasm by himself, after a good night's sleep. But the lesser evil has got to be Kerry. What if they find oil over here beneath my house? Colin will say my socks pose biological hazard and i might use them against my neighbours. I don't want to get to know a bombshell over dinner.

Keep an open mind and a closed skull but don't outlive your happiness.

Um... Ok.... So where's your desktop? -takes a couple pills-

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"I think Bush is an idiot... I think Kerry is an even bigger idiot! Vote Bush 2004!"

http://www.embege.com/misc/desktop.jpg
(heavy load ~400k)

Took me 3 seconds

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"I think Bush is an idiot... I think Kerry is an even bigger idiot! Vote Bush 2004!"

Sin City... hmmmm... Amsterdam? Do i get a prize?

Keep an open mind and a closed skull but don't outlive your happiness.

I'd rather say Las Vegas, but Amsterdam is a good candidate too.

my desktop ( 64.3Kb )

Gnome 2.6 on Gentoo with Lila



(Edited by Schitzoboy on 09-30-2004 19:45)

Schitzoboy: What's that "SWEET PETITE TEEN" in your task bar
Oh, and I love your Trash can.

[edit] Lol, I knew I should have backup'ed the previous picture. [/edit]



(Edited by poi on 09-30-2004 19:52)

What "SWEET PETITE TEEN" in my taskbar? There is no "SWEET PETITE TEEN" there. I think you you're just imagining things poi. hehehehehehe. Those are certainly not pictures of Terri Harrison if THAT"S what you're insinuating.



(Edited by Schitzoboy on 09-30-2004 19:53)

AUUUUUUUUUUUH

My desktop. Plain and gray. With pictures by Mr. Brendan.
There's my rather ambiguous "refs" folder. Heh.
Oh, and if anyone hasn't seen The Perry Bible Fellowship before, you should. You won't regret it. For Example.

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"Abortion clinics are like expressways to heaven."

(Edited by cfb on 10-01-2004 04:22)

(Edited by cfb on 10-01-2004 04:24)

Boring and sterile in comparison to desktops above

I replaced the old Aragorn with the eyeball nebula just this week. I think I might switch back.

Amerasu |

LoL, Schitzo.

Basic black with a twist. (62K)

I tend to keep my desktops pretty bare, and not have a lot of icons on it. Nothing worse than having half your landscape covered by icons and folders that you have to hunt through to find anything. JMO, YMMV.

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le coeur du feu
Qui sème le vent récolte la tempête!

(Edited by RhyssaFireheart on 10-01-2004 05:25)

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(Edited by Yannah on 10-01-2004 05:39)

currently

through the ozone ages

Eh... not much.

There's some nice Desktop's out there, I like the Gentoo Linux shell, V slick.

I must admit, I did laugh when I saw poi's! it made so much sense, with the 640, 1024 margins on the BG very nice mate

Here's mine



Cheers,

Blaise

(Edited by Blaise on 10-01-2004 12:11)

Blaise, for a second there I thought your post-it said, "Laundry bank - withdraw chicken".

Blaise: Thank you pal. The resolution guides and margins proved to be usefull. I also made an HTML version of my background with an animated version for the little girl in the bottom left. That little girl is my avatar on pouet.net.

Two things puzzle me on your desktop : the weather bar, and the notes. Are they real applications ? if so what's their name ?

The Weather bar and Post-it note are indeed two little apps, they're called desktop widgets and are becomming increasingly popular amongst the skinning and theming scene. There are a couple of programs that can create them like Samurize, Desktop X, o Rainlendar, I'm using Kapsules.

The nice thing about desktop widgets is that they all use preoloaded libraries used by other processes, and leave a very small footprint themselves, the bad thing is that theey create more clutter on the desktop, so use sparingly!

Alos depending on which program you use for them, they are usually written in a very simple language like VB or javascript, so scripting your own widgets can be very easily done.

Kapsules for example can have widgest written in VBScript, JScript, RubyScript or Python!!

Enjoy!

Blaise.

It sounds interresting and quite worth keeping an eye on it. When MS introduced the Active Desktop I hoped that sort of things were possibles in HTML, but it was tricky to get something working properly, at least at the time.

Thanks, Blaise, those kapsules things are cool. I just wish they had more widgets.

So, here's the new desktop.

Blaise, I've just spent the last hour or so installing the necessary files to use Kapsules. They are very good. Thanks. I must resist downloading the SDK, I have too much else to do, but they look so much fun.

Also, poi, your screen size guides desktop is great idea... hope it's not pat. pending.

My own coloring inspires me. Silva from Shaman King.


'Hey, take it easy and enjoy life.... or in your case, death.' -- Yoh Asakura, 'Shaman King'

Wolfen's Sig Site | WolfenMedia | Cell #226 | Fun Link | E-mails of Wisdom | Wolfen Deviantart

Nice artwork!

I hate Kapsule needs 2k/xp/2003 to work. ack.

Well, there is always powerpro

Mine

I actually have my desktop full of icons, as I often need quick access to all my designs and school stuff. However, when I have free time, I hide 'em, turn on winamp, and enjoy my wallpaper, made up from a picture by Esao Andrews.

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Sexy Demoness cel

I made the background in POV-Ray a few weeks ago.


 

Did you know that too much white is bad for your monitor? If you leave it on.. It runs a risk of burning the screen.

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TiNNoS || My Forums || My Gallery

Man Im boring all I have is the default pale green that comes w/ windows. yuck.

I'd resize, but hell I think OzoneAsylum looks good with a stretched layout



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funny websites | funny signatures | funny jokes

Ozone Asylum KILLED my inner child.

(Edited by tntcheats on 10-02-2004 06:32)

Rad... I've usually got this funky gasket going over my start button and just under my screen (if that makes sense). This is the first time I've seen my own screen without that gasket for a few years now. Can you believe I paid $400 insurance for this computer and they wouldn't fix that gasket? Said I was neglactant. @3$! holes.

I've just gone back to this^ old favourite after a while playing with active desktop.
Tao

That's my desktop. Up until just before this thread, I had the default Windows XP theme and a DeviantART (I think -- DualNeuron) wallpaper. I just switched to a simple black and slightly-blue gradient (fine, 1280x1024 png of a gradient :\).

I always wanted a custom windows theme, but all the ones I could find had quirks that just didn't work. I've found this theme, which is fairly good, but it has it's downs

Anyway, I also downloaded Kapsules (Thanks Blaise) and they're really good, you can see the weather and calendar on the right side.

[Edit: Fullsize http://bradford.shacknet.nu:8080/~bradford/Desktop1280.png]

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(Edited by abb on 10-03-2004 07:15)

well this is mine...

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[Edit: Didn't see it at first... ]



(Edited by zavaboy on 10-03-2004 21:24)

Morph - That wallpaper is pretty cool. Where does it come from?

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Sexy Demoness cel

I love those applications Blaise.

I'm seeing a lot of nice desktops.

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Deviations | My Detention Room | My Poetry Cell | My Own Domain | Mayday!
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Alevice :
desktop picture is from http://www.worldoffroud.com/



(Edited by Morph on 10-04-2004 09:00)