Show us your desktop.

[the_eternal_dark]

Take a pic of your desktop and show us how it looks. Give specs, neat info, os you are using, etc.

*edit*

Back to Gnome in Linux Mint 4.0, glass icons and compiz/beryl goodness. Kate is my girlfriend, who abducted my laptop while I was gone.

[Johnny Rash]

Mine is a pretty basic Windows XP set-up.

Could be better...

[Axelius]

Yeah, my desktop is pretty standard too...
Okay, it doesn't really look like XP, but it still is.(I don't like this Playmobil-style)
What I regard as "special" is that I don't have really many icons on my desktop.
By the way, my wallpaper is pretty new, until last week I had a cool "A Scanner Darkly"-Wallpaper for the last 4 months or so...

[Anonymous D]

http://i184.photobucket.com/albums/x170/Anonymous_D/Untitled-2.jpg

Vista Home Premium, desktop wallpaper by me.

[the_eternal_dark]

Beautiful wallpapers guys.

AnonymousD, What series is your wallpaper based on? My gf would love that.

I'm sorry you all got stuck with windows though (joke, windows isn't that bad, 3rd party and open source helps you guys a lot).

Forgot to mention, the desktop environment I'm using is still in beta testing. Unlike gnome, kde, xfce, etc, my usb storage gets mounted in weirdo locations and can't be detected with certain programs (like my ipod and Amarok), unless I directly link to those mount points and said program goes "Oh shiz, there it is. Mounted. Want song transfer?" I'm thinking about going with Mint 4.0 shortly (possibly with xfce (speed or gnome (organization) again).

[Anonymous D]

lol tbh vista IS that bad

i based it on a render from planet renders ill find the name...
unfort there is no name, this is the source image though (http://img159.imageshack.us/img159/6427/animegirl68631024768xc0.jpg), if thats any use.

edit: i found the original wallpaper and even that doesnt say what it is lol

[the_eternal_dark]

Nice, I'll build something on that. Why did you choose Vista ultimate instead of anything else?

[Anonymous D]

i was bought a new pc, and seeing as it it had to last me a while i thought id better get vista as loads of things would move to it. i now see i was wrong lol

[Shrygue]

So I hear Windows Vista isn't as all cracked up as it's supposed to be huh? I was thinking of getting the Ultimate Edition (full package, not not OS upgrade one) but if it's not so good, then maybe blowing some £300 would be a bad idea then.

Anyway, here's my current desktop as follows, obviously me being yet another Windows XP user:

http://img230.imageshack.us/img230/1585/currentdesktopyp7.png

[the_eternal_dark]

I like the nice and simple looks of xp, the 3d stuff of vista isn't all that great to me. Throw compiz/beryl on any linux distro and that'll show you true great effects.

[Sonicboy 101]

Mine, and before anyone asks I am really looking forward for Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles :p

[the_eternal_dark]

Same here Sonicboy_101. Looks great with the zune theme.

[JKKDARK]

Why do you have Internet Explorer? O_o

[Johnny Rash]

Why does anyone USE IE?

I have the Firefox installer on my jump drive.
Even when I go to friends houses, I surf the net on the Firefox.

I don't even bother asking, they're always happy to see their computer run faster. :D

[the_eternal_dark]

Why do you have Internet Explorer? O_o

Maybe he one of many making IE exploits??

[Chameleon]

This is mine, im using windows XP, and i tried making it look as close to vista as possible...

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/4167/49460244go8.png

[the_eternal_dark]

Nice modding. Looks pretty close to Vista but better (its not Vista).

[Johnny Rash]

A good thing too because Vista sucks ass.

[kcajblue]

Why does anyone USE IE?

I have the Firefox installer on my jump drive.
Even when I go to friends houses, I surf the net on the Firefox.

I don't even bother asking, they're always happy to see their computer run faster. :Di use opera as my default browser.
and have been before it got popular.

but if i cant use opera, i use IE.

i hate firefox with a vengeance.

[the_eternal_dark]

Why?

My only beef is that you can't browse the music section on certain store websites due to not using IE.

I have opera on my Mac. Its pretty good, but I rarely touch the mac since my girlfriend adopted it..

[quzar]

If anyone can find me this image without the harvested logo in the top left, I would be immensely grateful. It's the cover to a Pink Floyd bootleg. (low quality due to using jpg)

[Junixx]

http://img130.imageshack.us/img130/1112/screenshothz0.png

My Ubuntu box (quite literally) its vista-ish, I'll post my XP one later

[ICE]

Not a lot of stuff on it but im obsessive compulsive like that... gotta keep it clean :D

http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z65/theICE_MAN/Screenshot-1.png

[the_eternal_dark]

Ice_man, junixx, nice Ubuntu desktops. Any other customizations with either?

Too bad I can't use the beryl/compiz effects in my desktop, that stuff is craziness.

Ice_man, what is that desklet called?

Have either of you looked into using Mint?

Quzar, heres the only one I could find. *Edit* What is that wallpaper called? I would like to have it. *Image removed*

[pibs]

he didn't want the harvested logo he wants the background image without the logo.

[quzar]

http://www.harvested.org/CDR005-Mooed/300/MooCover.jpg

That's the original. I cut off the right side. I'm thinking of starting a rotation between the two. And yes, pibster is right, I want the image without the watermark (or text). I'm thinking of contacting the harvested people, but meh.

[the_eternal_dark]

My bad. Tired and not reading apparantly.

[dejkirkby]

Here's my XP desktop

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x91/dejkirkby/desktop.jpg

[the_eternal_dark]

Slick. Any lag or instability?

[dejkirkby]

Not that I've noticed.
It's a prog called Real Desktop.

[splodger15]

Here is mine:

http://i6.tinypic.com/4le012u.png

[parkermauney]

http://img104.imageshack.us/img104/8726/screenshotlx9.png

[sourced]

Heres mine. pretty simple.

[ICE]

This thread has inspired me to make my laptop look crazy lol. If I get it somewhere I like i'll repost it.

Oh and if I remember what that desklet was called i'll tell ya :P

EDIT: Ahaaa I found a little tut for it. I could just tell you because its very easy but hitting ctrl-v is much easier :)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=373002

[Axelius]

Sourced, I think this would look even better if, you rezised your background so that every icon fits perfectly into it's square...

[BoneyCork]

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/5522/ff13desktopwq9.jpg

[sourced]

Sourced, I think this would look even better if, you rezised your background so that every icon fits perfectly into it's square...

hey, thats a great idea. ima do that later :p

[the_eternal_dark]

Nice desktops guys.

Sourced, you should put 1 random red square in there somewhere.

ICE, that starter bar is jacked, thats why I didn't use it.

dejkirby, I think I've seen that once before, but as a beta. Looks good though.

btw, I just finished redoing my laptop, E17 finally gave up on me. I'll repost the pic in the first post.

[BrooksyX]

I like to keep things simple:

[sourced]

Nice desktops guys.

Sourced, you should put 1 random red square in there somewhere.

ICE, that starter bar is jacked, thats why I didn't use it.

dejkirby, I think I've seen that once before, but as a beta. Looks good though.

btw, I just finished redoing my laptop, E17 finally gave up on me. I'll repost the pic in the first post.

why would i need a red square?:confused:

[the_eternal_dark]

why would i need a red square?:confused:

To be a little weird. Though I guess you could use blue or green as well instead of a red square.

[ICE]

Whats wrong with my bar?

[the_eternal_dark]

Sorry, what I meant to say was the one I have is broken and non functional. I keep getting a weird code/script error when I run it. You may have a newer, fixed version than I do.

[sourced]

To be a little weird. Though I guess you could use blue or green as well instead of a red square.

why would i want to be weird? i dun get it... :confused:

[the_eternal_dark]

You could put one your favorite desktop icons in it.

[sourced]

oh. cool. now i get it. :))