<a href="http://cupofwoot.com/ns/messadesktop.jpg" target="_blank"><img src="http://cupofwoot.com/ns/messadesktopthumb.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /></a> My Windows desktop. Click for full sized desktop sex.
And why only one or two of you is still playing Diablo II ? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" />
Bad, bad....
Here is mine : <a href="http://www.wow-europe.com/fr/downloads/wallpapers/wallpaper73.html" target="_blank">http://www.wow-europe.com/fr/downloads/wal...allpaper73.html</a>
without any icon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> I took him from WoW-Europe, as you can see.
<img src="http://www.cupofwoot.com/caboose/Desktop101006.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /> My Windows Desktop has not changed, but here's my current Linux Desktop. I spend most of my time on Linux anyways, so it changes more than the Windows one.
Behold, my 800x600 desktop: <img src="http://img264.imageshack.us/img264/9017/desktop12345gq9.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
Note: Yes, I know the icons cover the awesomeness of the wallpaper, I keep it at 800x600 since my vision isn't good enough to read most text at 1024x768 or higher desktop.
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Bloody hell, if your eyes are that bad, get glasses! :o
Brings new meaning to the term "wallpaper" <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
Where did you get the vistual stuff for that? Looks like the kind of thing that I'm looking for, not too minimalistic, but lets me get rid off the excess I have...
Is that objectdock and scaled-up NS resources I see? They don't look half-bad either. Did you filter them? If I remember right the ones in the spr file are 32x32...
Also, my new(ish) desktop, plus my laptop running windows with litestep (which is soon to be wiped and go kubuntu-only)
<a href="http://stash.reknet.ca/pics/desktoplol.png" target="_blank">Desktop linked because it's a high-quality PNG @ 3200x1200 :o</a>
<!--quoteo(post=1592782:date=Dec 28 2006, 05:00 AM:name=chuckers)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(chuckers @ Dec 28 2006, 05:00 AM) [snapback]1592782[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> someone mind helping me figure out where to get those type of desktop customizations and showing me how? those task bar and desktop utilities plx <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM" target="_blank">The best desktops are linux</a>. If you don't want to take that leap, check out <a href="http://www.litestep.net" target="_blank">litestep</a>, an excellent alternate shell that focuses on performance and stability, but is easily extensible to provide some awesome graphical flare, like this: <img src="http://www.litestep.net/upload/themes/Aquazone-OTS2_Update_50784-578.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
I'm using a minimalistic custom theme in my laptop shot, along with a custom <a href="http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/" target="_blank">Window Blinds</a> theme to make the explorer-based windows match my litestep theme. There are some good ones if you browse through their pages and, while that is a community site, not the official dev site, they do have the main project for download and a couple of community-made installers (you would otherwise need to manually replace explorer.exe as the shell). Note that you can still use explorer as your file browser if you wish, though I'd encourage you to check out <a href="http://www.ghisler.com/" target="_blank">Total Commander</a>. Another great feature of litestep is multiple virtual desktops, something that windows is severly lacking in. There is a project to bring the compiz/beryl 3D cube to windows, though I can't remember its name, and last I heard it wasn't even in alpha.
If you really want lean and mean with as little overhead as possible, use <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/" target="_blank">Damn Small</a> or <a href="http://xubuntu.org/" target="_blank">Xubuntu</a>. But if it just has to be windows, check out <a href="http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/" target="_blank">blackbox</a>, though I've barely even tried it myself, it does come highly recommended.
The sidebar on both of my windows installs, which behaves very similarly to the Mac dock, is called <a href="http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/" target="_blank">ObjectDock</a>, made by the same people who later on made Window Blinds. The most useful thing is the ability to symlink it to folders, to expand a fly-wheel of all files in there, but it also has widgets such as battery power and local weather. This screen shows how I have mine setup. <img src="http://stash.reknet.ca/pics/objectdock-HOWTO.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
Sorry for the double post, but I figured this thing needs its own post.
a worthy topic bump... <img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g53/scaryface666/sfdesktop2-1.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" /> (resized from 1440x900) I sorta edited my visual style but mostly just to the extent of recoloring, partly because i'm lazy (whoever invented the default green on blue theme should be shot) i'm most interested in what spacejesus did to get his results
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My Windows desktop. Click for full sized desktop sex.
Bad, bad....
Here is mine : <a href="http://www.wow-europe.com/fr/downloads/wallpapers/wallpaper73.html" target="_blank">http://www.wow-europe.com/fr/downloads/wal...allpaper73.html</a>
without any icon <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tounge.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":p" border="0" alt="tounge.gif" /> I took him from WoW-Europe, as you can see.
<img src="http://blackmage.org/crabby/Crabby/wallpaper_redirken800.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
Also, by request, the TSO wallpaper
<img src="http://blackmage.org/crabby/Crabby/CrabPaper01.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
epic.
My Windows Desktop has not changed, but here's my current Linux Desktop. I spend most of my time on Linux anyways, so it changes more than the Windows one.
Note: Yes, I know the icons cover the awesomeness of the wallpaper, I keep it at 800x600 since my vision isn't good enough to read most text at 1024x768 or higher desktop.
ph33r the frozen over hell <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
Note: Yes, I know the icons cover the awesomeness of the wallpaper, I keep it at 800x600 since my vision isn't good enough to read most text at 1024x768 or higher desktop.
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Bloody hell, if your eyes are that bad, get glasses! :o
here's my organic desktoppery:
<a href="http://www.rapiduk.com/sys/cyrodiildt.jpg" target="_blank">beginning</a>
<a href="http://www.rapiduk.com/sys/cyrodiildtv2c.jpg" target="_blank">currently</a>
Top marks for finding all the collateral images (except for the base one, which is my own photo).
Where did you get the vistual stuff for that? Looks like the kind of thing that I'm looking for, not too minimalistic, but lets me get rid off the excess I have...
<img src="http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/6735/wallpapercb5.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
<img src="http://img118.imageshack.us/img118/6965/desktop2jr2.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
<img src="http://xs414.xs.to/xs414/07142/2007-04-03_1280x800_scrot.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
Uses the same imageset for the windows logon screen aswell which is cool
<img src="http://img241.imageshack.us/img241/6663/desktopup2.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
<img src="http://i148.photobucket.com/albums/s2/dmustillo/Desktop.jpg" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
Also, my new(ish) desktop, plus my laptop running windows with litestep (which is soon to be wiped and go kubuntu-only)
<a href="http://stash.reknet.ca/pics/desktoplol.png" target="_blank">Desktop linked because it's a high-quality PNG @ 3200x1200 :o</a>
<img src="http://i116.photobucket.com/albums/o18/ReK_42/Desktop%20Screenies/desktop3.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
someone mind helping me figure out where to get those type of desktop customizations and showing me how? those task bar and desktop utilities plx
<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD7QraljRfM" target="_blank">The best desktops are linux</a>. If you don't want to take that leap, check out <a href="http://www.litestep.net" target="_blank">litestep</a>, an excellent alternate shell that focuses on performance and stability, but is easily extensible to provide some awesome graphical flare, like this:
<img src="http://www.litestep.net/upload/themes/Aquazone-OTS2_Update_50784-578.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
I'm using a minimalistic custom theme in my laptop shot, along with a custom <a href="http://www.stardock.com/products/windowblinds/" target="_blank">Window Blinds</a> theme to make the explorer-based windows match my litestep theme. There are some good ones if you browse through their pages and, while that is a community site, not the official dev site, they do have the main project for download and a couple of community-made installers (you would otherwise need to manually replace explorer.exe as the shell). Note that you can still use explorer as your file browser if you wish, though I'd encourage you to check out <a href="http://www.ghisler.com/" target="_blank">Total Commander</a>.
Another great feature of litestep is multiple virtual desktops, something that windows is severly lacking in. There is a project to bring the compiz/beryl 3D cube to windows, though I can't remember its name, and last I heard it wasn't even in alpha.
If you really want lean and mean with as little overhead as possible, use <a href="http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/" target="_blank">Damn Small</a> or <a href="http://xubuntu.org/" target="_blank">Xubuntu</a>. But if it just has to be windows, check out <a href="http://bb4win.sourceforge.net/bblean/" target="_blank">blackbox</a>, though I've barely even tried it myself, it does come highly recommended.
The sidebar on both of my windows installs, which behaves very similarly to the Mac dock, is called <a href="http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/" target="_blank">ObjectDock</a>, made by the same people who later on made Window Blinds. The most useful thing is the ability to symlink it to folders, to expand a fly-wheel of all files in there, but it also has widgets such as battery power and local weather. This screen shows how I have mine setup.
<img src="http://stash.reknet.ca/pics/objectdock-HOWTO.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
Sorry for the double post, but I figured this thing needs its own post.
<img src="http://i53.photobucket.com/albums/g53/scaryface666/sfdesktop2-1.png" border="0" alt="IPB Image" />
(resized from 1440x900) I sorta edited my visual style but mostly just to the extent of recoloring, partly because i'm lazy (whoever invented the default green on blue theme should be shot)
i'm most interested in what spacejesus did to get his results