Post Your Desktops the "Willie will give you bananas if you do eet" Edition

Yeah, it's called not using ****in imageshack.

Imageshack does not resize images.

It has nothing to do with the host.

If you were to right click ka's image (or anyone's image) and open the URL in a new tab or window, you'd see the full size.

This would be perfect.

It sucks that I didn't grab some of Krynn's wallpapers before the site revamp shrunk them all. There's no telling what I might have to do to get him to repost them. Ask? :shudder:

FOR GOD'S SAKE DOES ANYONE READ MY POSTS

THE FORUM DID NOT CHANGE THE SIZE OF ANY IMAGE

THAT'S JUST RIDICULOUS IT WOULD REQUIRE EVERY IMAGE TO BE REHOSTED IN SMALLER FORM ON THE FORUM

IT'S JUST A SIMPLE CSS MAX WIDTH APPLIED TO THE IMG TAG

IF YOU WANT THE ORIGINAL SIZE JUST GO TO THE IMAGE URL

I stand by my assertion.

LOL

I didn't read clearly because my eyes are out of focus.

I thought you meant only for the ones that people embedded the link in the image for.

(or anyone's image)

My parenthesis are always important!

Oh shit. That's probably the third time I read it, and I only saw the stuff in the parenthesis after you pointed it out just now.

I'm going to go ahead and be the first to say that the American flag clock is really bad looking. Partly because its poorly designed, and mostly because its a flag so wtf is it doing in a clock?

I'm keeping my desktop classy for awhile. This painting is so god damn awesome.

I'm still trying out different clocks, haven't quite found one that I like. Would love a digital, 24-hour one.

Hey Krynn bro, I noticed you use the small button style for your task bar, might I recommend moving the bar to a vertical orientation on the left or right side. Gives you more precious vertical resolution, and takes up less space instead of all that wasted area of the bar that you'll never fill.

It took me a few days to get used to but it's so nice. It's easier to move my mouse to the side rather than down.

I can't put it on the left side, because sometimes I have a second monitor on, and its to the left. On the right side I'd have to move all those Rainmeter widgets and thats a pain in the ass since every element on it needs to be moved separately. Also, I need more horizontal space anyways, since I usually am working, and watching some tv show or something in a window on the side. The video player is already really small because of how much space I need for Maya/Photoshop/Unity/Whatever else I'm using. This is how my screen usually looks, so I'm fine having less vertical space.

Here's my atempt to make my desktop classy:



I just love 19th century seascape paintings.

That is classy. Matches the theme nicely.

Trying out the vertical task bar now. Pretty neat.

I wish I could make it thinner, though. So only the FF, Hydra and Steam logos appeared under the start button.

Because of Hot Pursuit.

So I like that background, and I would like it as mine.

Where doth I get it, sire?

LMao. Turn off taskbar labels.



EDIT: OK, so that doesn't actually make it thinner, even if you turn off the clock. Why'z it so fat? That's retarded looking.

Just google "aivazovsky ship on stormy seas", select large images, and you should find it.

Guess I'll try out the vertical bar as well.



Can't decide if I like large icons with it or not. I don't have too many, and making them small doesn't actually shrink the taskbar as virus pointed out. Guess I'll leave them large, for practicality's sake.

So, even the cool kids have a vertical taskbar now? How exciting!
You know you also want 7 taskbar tweaker so you can cycle through your program instances by spamming left mouse.

My bar is always on top, which makes the most sense to me since that's where all the bars on windows/applications are.
Krynn's right side taskbar is quite intuitive as well for the design of Window's windows.

I always keep the bar at the bottom. I've used it that way since my first PC, and to be honest I don't see any benefit to put it elsewhere. All those aplications that you have on the taskbar can just as easily be accessed from the start menu. Oh noes 1 extra click away!11

Exactly this.

I wouldn't have used vert taskbar on anything but Windows 7. In the older windows, the window buttons in the taskbar were named and such. But with Windows 7's new button/grouping style, it uses much less space on the taskbar. Since I'm running 1920x1200, that's one long taskbar along the bottom, that I'll never fill. Putting the taskbar on the side already saves screen real-estate. In addition, vertical resolution is more important than horizontal (for a widescreen monitor). It means that much less scrolling on the web/anything else.

What are you even talking about? You must not be familiar with Windows 7... Those are quicklaunch icons just like in any other windows version, wherever your taskbar is. Of course technically what you're seeing are "pinned" programs, which is W7's clever idea of combining the old system of quick launch taskbar buttons with window buttons.

All those things amount to minor improvements as far as I'm concerned. Certainly not enough to get me change it's position. However thanks for explaining.

I'm talking about the pinned programs. For example look at Dinnesch's screenshot. A lot of pinned programs, that can just as easily be accesed from the star menu. I guess the idea is, I have this big empty bar thing here, might as wel fill it with stuff.

But what does that have to do with it being vertical? Or even with the app he posted? He has even less space than he would if it was horizontal. And the app he talked about involves programs that are already open, so it wouldn't even matter if they were pinned or not.

What you are saying just seems so silly and pedantic. If he wants slightly easier access to those programs, what is your problem with it?

The same issue I have with a ton of icons on the desktop, it looks cluttered, messy, and it's just unnecessary. If you really HAVE TO have all those things to be one click away, then fine I guess. /shrug

It's all about speed of use. If I had to eliminate an extra click when designing an interface, I would. Having an easy to use interface is what keeps people from coming back to the program/machine. I auto-hide my taskbar so I don't have to deal with the extra space being wasted. Pinned programs galore as well, my start menu holds my current games I play, desktop items are the ones I use constantly.

Say huh? Thats not true at all.

What are you talking about.

Pinned to task bar versus pinned to start menu. One click difference. Is it really such a big deal?

Oh, I didn't know you meant pinned to the start menu. Still, theres a lot less space there for pinned apps, and its just as much as a cluster****, if not more-so than pinning to the taskbar. I don't see any reason to do it that way.

Alien vs. Predator.

I like the time and date setups around the wallpaper. Is this something you can only do in Windows 7?

Thats not Windows 7...thats another UI....