What does your desktop look like?

[mikeymike]

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 :-)

[sdesros]

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. ;)

[GadgetMaster]

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 ?

[mikeymike]

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.

[lorddef]

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 :)

[Chris_M]

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/

[Ilwrath]

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)

[DeQuevedo]

This is my brother desktop

http://www.morphzone.org/modules/myalbum/photo.php?lid=330

[NightShade737]

http://atomnet.co.uk/files/pcd.jpg
http://atomnet.co.uk/files/amigad.png

[AmigaFreak]

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. :-)

[chris]

Well, it kinda looks like this (http://www.jumpy.demon.co.uk/tmp/kde.jpg) at the present point in time.

Chris

[Mike_Amiga]

Here is mine, now show me yours. (www.members.lycos.co.uk/edward209/Desktop.jpg) :hat:

[Tomas]

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.. :-)

[Nick]

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! :-)

[that_punk_guy]

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. :-)

Well it's kinda pine-coloured, with a couple of coffee
stains on it.

Neko

[blobrana]

Drat!
http://mysite.freeserve.com/blobrana/images/guru.gif

But normally it looks like thisClassic (http://mysite.freeserve.com/blobrana/cont/computer.html)

[cecilia]

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.......

[tormedhammaren]

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.

[Darth_X]

http://asz.ngz-server.de/thumbs/pancake.gif

[4pLaY]

The desktop i use the most looks more or less like this: http://home.no.net/forplay/Pictures/Screenshots/MorphOS/Kjedermegja.png

[angrybrit]

My Desktop (http://pages.infinit.net/ronaldst/MyDesktop.jpg) 8-)

It's Windows XP with StyleXP using a QNX skin.

[blobrana]

@angrybrit
<off topic>
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!
</off topic>

[angrybrit]

@blobrana
<off topic>
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
</off topic>

[Waccoon]

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... :-)

[uncharted]

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


StrongBad and the Cheat rock!

TROGDOOOOOOOOOOOR!

[Bodie_CI5]

I vote for angrybrit's desktop. It beats everyone else's desktop hands down... er... hands up, ummm :-o

[AmigaFreak]

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

[Bodie_CI5]

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

Dude! Your link ain't working! :-o

[AmigaFreak]

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

[Bodie_CI5]

Ah, damn, now it's proper text :-?

[ptek]

Mine looks, in a few words :

A big mess !

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

Icons everywhere :lol:

[Mamoulian]

And here is my one (http://homepage.mac.com/patrick.buchholz/externgfx/MyDesk.png) :-)

[mikeymike]

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.

[Bodie_CI5]

Oh,on Mdk9.1 this (http://www.dart.net.au/users/nick/snapshot7.png) is an older one.

[AmigaFreak]

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.

[Vincent]

I uploaded my miggy one ages ago :-)

And it's right here! (http://www.amiga.org/gallery/photo.php?lid=961) :-D

[SWAUG]

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.

[Blomberg]

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:

[Blomberg]

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

[SWAUG]

Yeh, its Super Sans Serif... ;-)

Hey but at least it's working on a real Amiga A1200 with PCI(!) Graphics card

[mikeymike]

AmigaFreak, that font usage is just WRONG! :-)

@ Blomberg's wallpaper

Beechawawa!

[AmigaFreak]

Font usage??

Thats full blown MacOS hebrew! lol

[Bodie]

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

[AmigaFreak]

wow!! :lol:

[cecilia]

: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

[AmigaFreak]

Niice fractals! I like them. :-)

[Damion]

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)

[sir_inferno]

@tpg & unch

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

DESKTOP! (http://aa.domaindlx.com/snipoman/grab.jpg)

[sir_inferno]

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

[that_punk_guy]

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!!!!!

[Bodie_CI5]

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

[Damion]

@Bodie_CI5

Nice skin!:-o (and I don't mean the XMMS one;-))

[CD32Freak]

@cecilia

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

[angrybrit]

My Desktop (http://pages.infinit.net/ronaldst/MyDesktop.jpg) Updated! [323 KB] :love:

[sir_inferno]

hee hee, i can see where this thread is going. soon it'll be the top result for google search "porno wallpapers" :-)

[iamaboringperson]

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...

[Bodie_CI5]

@ -D-

mmmm, skin, mmmm... :-P

(smilie denotes droolage :-D )


@ Sir_Inferno

:roflmao:

[Wolfe]

@angrybrit

Well, I can see you are a breast of things . . . . :-D

[cecilia]

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

[CD32Freak]

You go, girl! :-D

[bloodline]

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:

[Madgun68]

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:

[Legerdemain]

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:

[DethKnight]

an overly compressed - hastily assembled screenshot of mine
http://raskin.netfirms.com/

[Morley]

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.

[Karlos]

... a mess.

[Morley]

Actually grabbed 8 years ago :lol:

-link- (http://home.online.no/~askripel/artimages/grab2.gif)

[Ilwrath]

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.)

[sir_inferno]

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

[Ilwrath]

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.)

[Morley]

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.

[minator]

My desktop? It looks like this:

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

..and that's less messy than usual!

[cecilia]

bloodline wrote:

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:

[Speelgoedmannetje]

My desktop's black and purple, no background picture, just dead black :evil:

[HopperJF]

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)

[bas01]

@ hopperJF

Do I spot GTA vice city on your desk?

[whabang]

My desktop (http://whabang.no-ip.com/desktop.jpg)

[fx]

here´s a pic of my UAE WB:

Workbench Screenshot (http://80.88.104.210/amiga.png)

[BrianJHoskins]

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

[mikeymike]

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.

[that_punk_guy]

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

[mikeymike]

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 :-)

[BrianJHoskins]

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

[HopperJF]

bas01 wrote:
@ hopperJF

Do I spot GTA vice city on your desk?



Heh, you sure do! :-D

[HopperJF]

mikeymike wrote:
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.

[icbrkr]

My main dual G4 running dual monitors:

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

My new iBook:

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