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On 23/08/10 14:34, Grant Sewell wrote:
Effective - but that means you get to say what your computer does and not someone else!On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:23:42 +0100 John wrote: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=1543427Nice 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 ;)Alas, my desktop is deliberately boring. A simple B&W SVG image of my company logo on a plain black background. No icons on the desktop at all. A dark theme throughout. 3 Gnome panels - top has App/Places/Sys as per Ubuntu's default; system monitor applet; notification area (I removed the Ubuntuified "me menu", etc; time/date; and logout button. Bottom panel has "show desktop"; window list; CPU frequency scaling applet; temperature applet; workspace switcher; force-quit& trash. Right panel has various launchers for apps I use regularly. Clean. Effective. Boring. :D
Ridiculous idea! Never catch on! Tom te tom te tom -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq