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Title: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: mikeymike on April 16, 2004, 08:07:15 PM: I thought a similar thread was quite interesting on Mozillazine, so I thought I'd run it here as well :-)

My desktop, half size (http://www.legolas.com/mikes/desktop.png)
My desktop, full size (http://www.legolas.com/mikes/desktop-fullsize.png)

The thread on mozillazine (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=65985&highlight=)

Please don't IMG your desktops, URL them. Otherwise forum page width goes bonkers.

I put this in alternative operating systems as it's not Amiga-specific, and more likely than not, most replies aren't going to be strictly Amiga-related :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: sdesros on April 16, 2004, 08:19:45 PM: Hmm... Here's a picture of my desktop. It's been resized to 800x600. Don't ask about the video playing. :P I did this screenshot for another unrelated board and that is kind of an in-joke. :P

My desktop (http://www.501st.ca/officail/desktop.jpg)

P.S.
All the software displayed are legal versions (ie: bought, have originals) except for anything that's freeware and GPL of course. ;)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: GadgetMaster on April 16, 2004, 08:32:39 PM: Quote

mikeymike wrote:
I thought a similar thread was quite interesting on Mozillazine, so I thought I'd run it here as well :-)

My desktop, half size (http://www.legolas.com/mikes/desktop.png)
My desktop, full size (http://www.legolas.com/mikes/desktop-fullsize.png)

The thread on mozillazine (http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=65985&highlight=)

Please don't IMG your desktops, URL them. Otherwise forum page width goes bonkers.

I put this in alternative operating systems as it's not Amiga-specific, and more likely than not, most replies aren't going to be strictly Amiga-related :-)

Cool !

Where can I get that A1200 backdrop ?
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: mikeymike on April 16, 2004, 08:34:51 PM: Quote
Where can I get that A1200 backdrop ?

It was in the OS4 CAM a month or two ago.

Just looked it up:
"Blue Nostalgia by PixelArt/Jean-Yves Auger" in the Feb 2004 issue.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: lorddef on April 16, 2004, 08:40:16 PM: My really exciting desktop : pluh (http://www.lorddef.net/computers/grabs/bitch.jpg)

[edit] infact if you go up one level to the directory listing theres also a few old grabs :)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Chris_M on April 16, 2004, 08:58:22 PM: My current one (http://www.btinternet.com/~mil1401/Pix/amiga5.jpg)

An older one (http://www.btinternet.com/~mil1401/Pix/desk5.jpg)

Note the AMiGA Party Pack. \0/
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Ilwrath on April 16, 2004, 08:58:28 PM: Well, I usually prefer very clean and simple desktops.

My XP workstation (and gaming station)
XP Desktop Pic 1 (Full Size) (http://home.comcast.net/~ilwrath/xp_desk1.png)
XP Desktop Pic 1 (Half Size) (http://home.comcast.net/~ilwrath/xp_desk2.png)
XP Desktop Pic 2 (Full Size) (http://home.comcast.net/~ilwrath/xp_desk3.png)
XP Desktop Pic 2 (Half Size) (http://home.comcast.net/~ilwrath/xp_desk4.png)

My Amiga 4000 (my heartfelt favorite Amiga, and the only one I really use on anything near a regular basis)
Amiga Workbench Pic (Full Size) (http://home.comcast.net/~ilwrath/ami_bench1.png)
Amiga Workbench Pic (Half Size) (http://home.comcast.net/~ilwrath/ami_bench2.png)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: DeQuevedo on April 16, 2004, 09:02:10 PM: This is my brother desktop

http://www.morphzone.org/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=330
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: NightShade737 on April 16, 2004, 09:59:52 PM: http://atomnet.co.uk/files/pcd.jpg
http://atomnet.co.uk/files/amigad.png
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: AmigaFreak on April 16, 2004, 10:15:23 PM: My desktop: http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/2062/1_1737.gif

With Amiga Workbench running on top of it. I have an older Powerbook 5300CE from 1996. It's all I use, it gets me on the internet, and its basically all I need in a computer. Had I still had email on my A1000 that we had back in the early 90's Id still have it as my main PC. :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: chris on April 16, 2004, 10:31:37 PM: Well, it kinda looks like this (http://www.jumpy.demon.co.uk/tmp/kde.jpg) at the present point in time.

Chris
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Mike_Amiga on April 16, 2004, 10:41:33 PM: Here is mine, now show me yours. (http://www.members.lycos.co.uk/edward209/Desktop.jpg) :hat:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Tomas on April 16, 2004, 10:59:21 PM: My current kde desktop: click here (http://handyhub.cjb.net/desktopshot.png)

Pretty much the standard looks, as i have not tweaked it much yet.. :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Nick on April 16, 2004, 11:09:44 PM: HERE (http://www.NOLIN.net/Images/OS.JPG) <-My system. Not finished really. Doubt I will now though, as my AmigaOne is due anyday now! :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: that_punk_guy on April 16, 2004, 11:17:57 PM: Main PC (running Windows 2000): http://homepage.ntlworld.com/christopher.sheffield/goatdesk.jpg

There are screenshots of my UAE setup in the gallery somewhere, too. :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: on April 16, 2004, 11:32:15 PM: Well it's kinda pine-coloured, with a couple of coffee
stains on it.

Neko
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: blobrana on April 17, 2004, 12:16:16 AM: Drat!
(http://mysite.freeserve.com/blobrana/images/guru.gif)

But normally it looks like thisClassic (http://mysite.freeserve.com/blobrana/cont/computer.html)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: cecilia on April 17, 2004, 12:31:54 AM: I have a whole bunch of pics I regularly rotate, and some of the ones that are clean enough to be shown in public :lol:
can be found
Here (http://www.morphzone.org/modules/myalbum/viewcat.php?cid=25).
those are fractals I "made" myself using ZoneXplorer. I'll be making more.......
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: tormedhammaren on April 17, 2004, 12:39:37 AM: Desktop on a Gentoo Linux 2.6.5 box running XFree86 and the Enlightenment Window Manager:

XFree86 grab (http://www.student.uib.no/~st09290/misc/XFreegrab.gif)

Desktop on AmigaOS 3.5 A4000/040@40:

Workbench 3.5 grab (http://www.student.uib.no/~st09290/misc/wbgrab.gif)

On both platforms I've put stability and speed above the eye candy factor.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Darth_X on April 17, 2004, 01:36:22 AM: (http://asz.ngz-server.de/thumbs/pancake.gif)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: 4pLaY on April 17, 2004, 02:16:18 AM: The desktop i use the most looks more or less like this: http://home.no.net/forplay/Pictures/Screenshots/MorphOS/Kjedermegja.png
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: angrybrit on April 17, 2004, 02:54:10 AM: My Desktop (http://pages.infinit.net/ronaldst/MyDesktop.jpg) 8-)

It's Windows XP with StyleXP using a QNX skin.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: blobrana on April 17, 2004, 03:11:27 AM: @angrybrit

Is that because you haven`t found a good skin of Amiga?

i `ve got style, but i didn`t like the skins i found...i use windowblind3.x ...i have, and just tried windowblinds 4.05 but it`s not got explorer backdrops!
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: angrybrit on April 17, 2004, 06:25:45 AM: @blobrana

Is that because you haven`t found a good skin of Amiga?

Yes. I haven't found a good skin.... yet. I guess I'm too picky.

Most skins using StyleXP are horrible and fulla problems UI wise. The QNX skin is one of the better ones. I comes with the Panther OSX skin but I'm tired of seeing it.

Here's where I get my skins:
http://www.customize.org (http://www.customize.org)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Waccoon on April 17, 2004, 07:21:49 AM: Fractal Mania! (240k) (http://www.NineChime.com/Desk.png)

A tad messy, since I'm working on several Oekaki projects (some in Perl, some PHP). Oh, the fun of researching known issues with browsers... :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: uncharted on April 17, 2004, 10:06:59 AM: Quote

that_punk_guy wrote:
Main PC (running Windows 2000): http://homepage.ntlworld.com/christopher.sheffield/goatdesk.jpg

StrongBad and the Cheat rock!

TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOR!
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on April 17, 2004, 10:20:46 AM: I vote for angrybrit's desktop. It beats everyone else's desktop hands down... er... hands up, ummm :-o
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: AmigaFreak on April 18, 2004, 03:37:19 AM: Heres my basic desktop:
http://www.geocities.com/prussianboy18/DESKTOP.JPG
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on April 18, 2004, 04:09:05 AM: Quote

AmigaFreak wrote:
Heres my basic desktop:
http://www.geocities.com/prussianboy18/DESKTOP.JPG

Dude! Your link ain't working! :-o
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: AmigaFreak on April 18, 2004, 04:19:31 AM: Try this:

http://www.geocities.com/prussianboy18/desktop.txt

just click on that link it should load as an image. Many geocities users rename images to txt to get them to load. :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on April 18, 2004, 04:39:40 AM: Ah, damn, now it's proper text :-?
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: ptek on April 18, 2004, 11:18:16 AM: Mine looks, in a few words :

A big mess !

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

Icons everywhere :lol:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Mamoulian on April 18, 2004, 12:01:14 PM: And here is my one (http://homepage.mac.com/patrick.buchholz/externgfx/MyDesk.png) :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: mikeymike on April 18, 2004, 12:04:43 PM: Quote
just click on that link it should load as an image. Many geocities users rename images to txt to get them to load.

IE only.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on April 18, 2004, 12:14:44 PM: Oh,on Mdk9.1 this (http://www.dart.net.au/users/nick/snapshot7.png) is an older one.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: AmigaFreak on April 18, 2004, 05:15:32 PM: Sorry guys about that, heres the desktop image http://www.amiga.org/gallery/images/2062/1_1741.jpg

It's cool cause im running MacOS 7.5.3 Hebrew.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Vincent on April 18, 2004, 07:15:02 PM: I uploaded my miggy one ages ago :-)

And it's right here! (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/photo.php?lid=961) :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: SWAUG on April 18, 2004, 07:16:17 PM: OK as we are on an AMIGa website and hopefully we are all AMIGA users, here is actually a rare picture of a real modern Amiga Workbench!

http://www.swaug.org.uk/images/workbench.jpg

none of this Windows/Linux/Mac nonsense.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Blomberg on April 18, 2004, 07:21:56 PM: Quote

SWAUG wrote:
OK as we are on an AMIGa website and hopefully we are all AMIGA users, here is actually a rare picture of a real modern Amiga Workbench!

http://www.swaug.org.uk/images/workbench.jpg

none of this Windows/Linux/Mac nonsense.

Hmm, that font looks awfully Windows'ish to me.. :whack:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Blomberg on April 18, 2004, 07:29:15 PM: Here's (http://hjem.get2net.dk/doomski/desktop.jpg) my boring old Windoze desktop, btw
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: SWAUG on April 18, 2004, 08:30:09 PM: Yeh, its Super Sans Serif... ;-)

Hey but at least it's working on a real Amiga A1200 with PCI(!) Graphics card
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: mikeymike on April 18, 2004, 10:43:22 PM: AmigaFreak, that font usage is just WRONG! :-)

@ Blomberg's wallpaper

Beechawawa!
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: AmigaFreak on April 19, 2004, 12:15:15 AM: Font usage??

Thats full blown MacOS hebrew! lol
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Bodie on April 19, 2004, 02:11:25 AM: Quote

Blomberg wrote:
Here's (http://hjem.get2net.dk/doomski/desktop.jpg) my boring old Windoze desktop, btw

Blommie I REALLY want that background :love: :knuddel: :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: AmigaFreak on April 19, 2004, 02:20:18 AM: wow!! :lol:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: cecilia on April 19, 2004, 03:10:04 AM: :roflmao:

see, some of the "wallpaper" I use (as I have linux I get to have a variety of different WB's) are semi-nakid guys and I KNOW none of you want to see that!!!!!

I just uploaded some new - and clean - pics I made of flowers and fractals (http://www.morphzone.org/modules/myalbum/viewcat.php?cid=25). It takes them a while to show up after I upload them. But they will be there. :-P
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: AmigaFreak on April 19, 2004, 04:04:27 AM: Niice fractals! I like them. :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Damion on April 19, 2004, 08:27:03 AM: Here are a few of my Ambient grabs (at Morphzone):

one (http://www.morphzone.org/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=231)

two (http://www.morphzone.org/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=274)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: sir_inferno on April 19, 2004, 08:56:11 AM: @tpg & unch

i can see you're as addicted to homestarrunner as me :-D

DESKTOP! (http://aa.domaindlx.com/snipoman/grab.jpg)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: sir_inferno on April 19, 2004, 08:59:02 AM: Quote

Tomas wrote:
My current kde desktop: click here (http://handyhub.cjb.net/desktopshot.png)

Pretty much the standard looks, as i have not tweaked it much yet.. :-)

mmmmmmmmmmmMMMMMMMMM :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: that_punk_guy on April 19, 2004, 10:40:16 AM: Quote
sir_inferno wrote:
@tpg & unch
i can see you're as addicted to homestarrunner as me :-D

SAILING MISHAP!! :lol:

I took a shot of that same frame, I was going to put it on a t-shirt. I'm glad someone else found that so funny, I was rolling around on the floor and punk_sis was looking at me with disdain. :-)

TRRRRROOOOOOGDOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on April 19, 2004, 12:29:54 PM: This (http://www.dart.net.au/users/nick/snapshot1.png) is my new one :-D

-edit-

Oh, I forgot:

It's KDE on Mandrake 9.1
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Damion on April 20, 2004, 04:11:49 AM: @Bodie_CI5

Nice skin!:-o (and I don't mean the XMMS one;-))
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: CD32Freak on April 20, 2004, 07:33:08 AM: @cecilia

Quote
see, some of the "wallpaper" I use (as I have linux I get to have a variety of different WB's) are semi-nakid guys and I KNOW none of you want to see that!!!!!
Why not? Don't hold yourself back. If that's what your desktop looks like, so be it. The power of equality! :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: angrybrit on April 20, 2004, 08:08:57 AM: My Desktop (http://pages.infinit.net/ronaldst/MyDesktop.jpg) Updated! [323 KB] :love:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: sir_inferno on April 20, 2004, 08:20:14 AM: hee hee, i can see where this thread is going. soon it'll be the top result for google search "porno wallpapers" :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: iamaboringperson on April 20, 2004, 08:24:19 AM: hmm...

I don't know why people are so interested in this sort of thing.

Instead of showing you a pic of my desktops, I'll describe them! :)

MS-Windows: Plain old win 95/98 green, with standard win98 icons. Nothing special.

MorphOS: Standard icons scaled down. Background pic is tiled 'autumn' picture I found, which is basically brownish leaves etc. MUI is configured with fairly ordinary 'marble' patterns.

Amiga A 4000 T: Standard icon set. "Dogs Playing Poker" pic as my background ;). ReAction uses a subdued green leaves background. Font is a large (18 or 20 pt) Times type font.

Linux: Grey 'swirly patterns' as my background. Standard KDE dull crappy yellow borders with customized gadget positions. Standard icons.

Now I go and eat...
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Bodie_CI5 on April 20, 2004, 09:38:45 AM: @ -D-

mmmm, skin, mmmm... :-P

(smilie denotes droolage :-D )

@ Sir_Inferno

:roflmao:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Wolfe on April 20, 2004, 10:39:40 AM: @angrybrit

Well, I can see you are a breast of things . . . . :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: cecilia on April 20, 2004, 02:05:36 PM: Quote
Why not? Don't hold yourself back. If that's what your desktop looks like, so be it. The power of equality!
well, Thanks!
often guys get bored with MY pics, as my linux is sick and has a boo boo at the moment (going to the linux doc later today), i'll post a link (http://members.fortunecity.com/christianbale/ewcbrof.jpg) to one of the pics I like to use.

mmmmmmm, nice.
:-P
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: CD32Freak on April 21, 2004, 10:05:29 AM: You go, girl! :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: bloodline on April 21, 2004, 11:57:09 AM: Quote

cecilia wrote:
i'll post a link (http://members.fortunecity.com/christianbale/ewcbrof.jpg) to one of the pics I like to use.

mmmmmmm, nice.
:-P

wow!!! that's like looking in a mirror!!! except for the handsome christain bale bit :-P :lol:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Madgun68 on April 22, 2004, 05:22:25 AM: A not so special pic of my Amiga 4000 desktop here. (http://home.comcast.net/~madgun1968/images/desktop.jpg)

And a pic of newscoaster running with a program I wrote a while back here. (http://home.comcast.net/~madgun1968/images/ncoaster.jpg) (Bulk newsgroup decoder.)

I know everyone's been waiting with baited breath for me to post these.. :lol:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Legerdemain on April 22, 2004, 09:39:08 AM: Something I've never really understood is the desktop fetischism concerning pictures of ones desktop showing nothing more than a background picture...? I mean, that doesn't really feel like a descriptive desktop shot to me, it is more like a snapshot of a wallpaper in action... :lol:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: DethKnight on April 22, 2004, 11:15:06 AM: an overly compressed - hastily assembled screenshot of mine
http://raskin.netfirms.com/
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Morley on April 22, 2004, 11:23:46 AM: Doh...

I just downloaded StyleXP to see some new desktops, I saw somebody else on this thread was using it. I never should have downloaded that crap- it installed 30+ spyware in Windows. Beware.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Karlos on April 22, 2004, 02:45:48 PM: ... a mess.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Morley on April 22, 2004, 03:32:59 PM: Actually grabbed 8 years ago :lol:

-link- (http://home.online.no/~askripel/artimages/grab2.gif)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Ilwrath on April 22, 2004, 04:24:32 PM: Quote
I just downloaded StyleXP to see some new desktops, I saw somebody else on this thread was using it. I never should have downloaded that crap- it installed 30+ spyware in Windows. Beware.

Yep... All you need is the XPStyle.dll or something like that. (Don't quote me on the name, but it's a single DLL that will let you choose any style in your desktop settings, instead of only signed MS ones.) It was a real bugger to swap out that single DLL, though, as Windows detects the DLL change, and wants to put it's signed version back. Why can't Windows be this protective when Spyware tries to replace files?? Even just a yes/no prompt would be nice. (Grumble, grumble... Stupid Microsoft.)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: sir_inferno on April 22, 2004, 05:27:18 PM: Quote

Ilwrath wrote:
Quote
I just downloaded StyleXPquote]

Yep... All you need is the XPStyle.dll

(...)

Windows detects the DLL change, and wants to put it's signed version back.

it's to protect kids randomly mashing the keyboard and "deleting" the windows folder :-?

but yeah, you have to go into safe mode
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Ilwrath on April 22, 2004, 05:40:41 PM: Quote
it's to protect kids randomly mashing the keyboard and "deleting" the windows folder

Well, yeah... But, obviously, the detection routine is there... Why don't they use it to warn against Spyware? Or to Codecs that get hosed by an idiotic install script? To me, these are two things that are much more likely to happen than someone going in and hap-hazardly changing/altering/deleting DLLs manually. (which was why I tangented on a "stupid Microsoft" rant.)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Morley on April 22, 2004, 05:45:10 PM: Quote
it's to protect kids randomly mashing the keyboard and "deleting" the windows folder

Actually, you can't access the windows folder on xp by default. You have to change some sttings in explorer to get in there, so IMHO no kids could "accidently" delete anything there. What I hate about Win**** is that you have no control on what is actually installed. If some amiga-installer tried something like spy-ware, I would know the instant it was installed by looking in wb-startup, s:startup-sequence and s:user-startup. Windows' settings should have been just as easy to navigate. the registry is quite a task to keep track of.........impossible IMHO.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: minator on April 22, 2004, 06:25:37 PM: My desktop? It looks like this:

(http://www.blachford.info/other/desktop.jpg)

..and that's less messy than usual!
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: cecilia on April 22, 2004, 08:04:47 PM: Quote

bloodline wrote:
Quote

cecilia wrote:
i'll post a link (http://members.fortunecity.com/christianbale/ewcbrof.jpg) to one of the pics I like to use.

mmmmmmm, nice.
:-P

wow!!! that's like looking in a mirror!!! except for the handsome christain bale bit :-P :lol:
ooohh, i'll bet you're cute in your own special "bloodline" way!
:knuddel:

(and I have a whole Bale directory with more of that breathhtaking flesh). :-P

I've just spent today taking pics of the flowering cherry trees around here. And, You KNOW I'll be using them to make more 'wallpaper'. almost as beautiful as Bale. :lol:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Speelgoedmannetje on April 22, 2004, 09:48:25 PM: My desktop's black and purple, no background picture, just dead black :evil:
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: HopperJF on April 28, 2004, 06:22:35 PM: My desktop and my actual desk top. Enjoy!

My Computer Desktop. (http://img53.photobucket.com/albums/v162/Mike_5DOS/Desktop_28.jpg)

My desk (http://img53.photobucket.com/albums/v162/Mike_5DOS/My_Mac_Feb_2004.jpg)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: bas01 on April 28, 2004, 06:33:17 PM: @ hopperJF

Do I spot GTA vice city on your desk?
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: whabang on April 28, 2004, 07:59:57 PM: My desktop (http://whabang.no-ip.com/desktop.jpg)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: fx on April 29, 2004, 09:23:22 PM: here´s a pic of my UAE WB:

Workbench Screenshot (http://80.88.104.210/amiga.png)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Brian Hoskins on April 30, 2004, 08:53:58 PM: Here's a picture of my Workbench at the moment:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~amigaos/AmigaOS39_April2004.png

It changes fairly regularly, I get bored of the look and try something else. Mainly I change the backdrop for the Workbench and Amidock.

The only problem I do find is that I've got to drop the backdrop if I want to run any Warp3D games because otherwise there's not enough free memory for P96 (thank Elbox for that one) I don't tend to run games on my miggy that often so generally it's not a problem.

It's AmigaOS3.9 running on an A1200

Brian
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: mikeymike on April 30, 2004, 10:30:08 PM: Quote

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~amigaos/AmigaOS39_April2004.png

Wow. Sure you didn't fake any of that? :-)

If you didn't, I have to say, that's the best-looking Amiga desktop I've seen.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: that_punk_guy on April 30, 2004, 10:31:03 PM: It's really fun seeing all the Amiga GUI fads from over the years... MagicWB, Newicons, Glowicons, now PNG icons...

And they say Mac users are image obsessed! :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: mikeymike on April 30, 2004, 10:46:58 PM: Quote
And they say Mac users are image obsessed!

There's a significant difference between "us" and "them Mac users". AmigaOS by default is a very basic-looking OS. MacOS's default look is what most Mac users tend to use, give or take a few tweaks. We put more effort into it :-)
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: Brian Hoskins on May 01, 2004, 12:54:08 AM: Heh, unfortunately I'm no graphics artist so faking that would take me far longer than twiddling with the settings in Workbench ;-)

Here's my desktop too:

http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~amigaos/Desktop.jpg

And before you lot say "Hah caught you! You're running Windows, I can see the same media player running on your laptop!"

a) Windows could never look that good

b) It's AmigaAMP running the same skin as WinAMP.

It's a very nice skin actually - Kalak Amplifier. If you're an AmigaAMP user and you've not seen this skin, get it!

Brian
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: HopperJF on May 01, 2004, 09:24:27 PM: Quote

bas01 wrote:
@ hopperJF

Do I spot GTA vice city on your desk?

Heh, you sure do! :-D
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: HopperJF on May 01, 2004, 09:30:34 PM: Quote

mikeymike wrote:
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And they say Mac users are image obsessed!

There's a significant difference between "us" and "them Mac users". AmigaOS by default is a very basic-looking OS. MacOS's default look is what most Mac users tend to use, give or take a few tweaks. We put more effort into it :-)

The default MacOS X Interface looks amazing imho, most Mac users tend to agree.
There are many ways to change the look of MacOS X but I don't really go further than changing the backdrop because I love the default look.
Title: Re: What does your desktop look like?
Post by: icbrkr on May 01, 2004, 10:36:11 PM: My main dual G4 running dual monitors:

http://www.particles.org/screenshot.jpg

My new iBook:

http://www.particles.org/ibook.jpg