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On Mon, 2010-08-23 at 13:58 +0100, Roland Tarver wrote: > > > > You can see better on just about any page of the monthly screenshot > > thread in Ubuntuforums; Augusts is located here : > > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543427 > > Nice photo :-) > I had to check what you meant then, as it should have linked to the start of the August screenshot thread, and it does. That first desktop does have a nice photo on you are right. I rarely use photo's on my own desktop and even less so landscape ones, I think I just find them too distracting or "cluttered", I do love nice landscape shots though; just not on my desktop ;) > > Each to their own of course, taste is not universal or even present > > going by some of the shots in the second link ;) > > I never said I actually liked the look of the desktops (though i think > some a pretty good). Rather, I was pointing out the "features" such as > docks and cubes etc that the linux desktop is capable of - which has > made a few windows user friends of mine take note. > Ahh, I see. Then yes they do show the docks and nice Conky configs. May as well show a couple of my own desktops from recent times: http://img9.imageshack.us/f/screenshot057q.png/ Similar, and this is what turned into the Orange one above: http://img687.imageshack.us/i/screenshot055h.png/ And something from a while ago: http://img196.imageshack.us/f/subbassjuly09slickness.png/ And yes I now expect that lack of taste comment from earlier to come and bite my backside ;) -- John http://subbass.blogspot.com/ -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq