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[Dethl]

Q.


Do not ask why my right-click start menu is composed of FF battle commands.

[StickX]

chaninja style rules
My evil desktop
a pic of my programs menu

Edited by StickX, 28 January 2007 - 08:28 AM.

[Chain3]

Chain's

[Sephiroth]

Ubuntu Desktop as of January 29th, 2007

[Solarrain4]

A plain WinXP desktop, with my guitar rig showing in the BG

http://img251.images...ydesktopsi5.png

Does anyone know of a free skin editor, so I don't have to live with the plain skin?

Edited by Solarrain4, 31 January 2007 - 04:36 PM.

[Fox]

All right, I've got one. Though I doubt anyone will actually look at it. Maybe I'll be surprised?

Fox's Desktop

Yeah, I know, it's not all that impressive. I go for a very clean, simple look without any unneccessary functionality. Simplicity is nice.

Also, after reviewing the last few desktops, bonus points are awarded to the following two people:

Taku of Miso, because Ikaruga is simply awesome, and unfairly looked over.

Takuya, with retro points, because the name "Nick" is on his desktop. Forgot about that.

[Taco Chopper]

uh... opera???


i actually quite like the my computer thing...

[Anthus]

Here it is. (02/01/07)

I haven't really customized anything else yet...

[Questwizard]

デスクトップ-ＱＷ-２００７年２月０１日.png (1191484 bytes. Slomo users beware! Smaller than my last one, but still...)

Ok. I had to reformat my computer the other day because it was acting stupider than stupid. A lot of stuff was weird or just not working. After reinstalling XP, I went at it customizing the whole desktop, as you could probably tell. Here we go with the list of goodies:

1. You'll probably notice the dark visual style. Before you go thinking I hacked up uxtheme.dll, you might as well not think that. That visual style is the secret "Royale Noir" style that was supposed to be part of XP Media Center Edition, but never got released till someone dug it up. I wanted something dark to go with my darker ツバサ・クロニクル (Tsubasa Chronicle) wallpaper, so I snatched it up quick.

2. You'll notice one more thing looking at the taskbar. You'll probably notice how my Start button doesn't say "start" anymore, but instead has the Japanese equivalent, which is "スタート", or "suta-to." Hacked a couple of resource scripts in the shell to make that one happen.

3. The usual widgets are all over the place. The same old Haiku generator and flashcard-type thing are still up in the top left, just bigger than before. On the right, I used a better widget for shortcuts than I was using. At least if I add another shortcut to the folder each one corrresponds to, the widget actually updates without me having to restart it, and automatically orders the icons based on the numbering sequence I give in the filenames. black background is just a logo widget stripped down to the bare minimum. Its about as simple as a widget can really get, but it does give the icons a background, since the launcher widgets lack background graphics. Along the bottom you'll find the recycle bin and system volume controls. I also slapped a media player widget right there so I can listen to JPop/JRock/Anime radio stations all day long (I spent 2 1/2 hours finding a widget that worked with streaming radio through iTunes (yes, the slow pile of junk needs a serious attitude adjustment. When I installed it, instead of showing up in English or at least Japanese, it showed up in Chinese. I switched it to English, and restarted it. Guess what? Korean this time. I guess it really likes East-Asian languages... minus the one I was trying to put it in of course . I gave it another attempt, and it finally went into Japanese. I've given up on getting iTunes to switch to English. It just isn't cooperating . On the left, we have a Japanese clock on the bottom, and all the system stats you could ever want above it (well, almost anyway. I still want my old bandwidth monitor back!!!).

You can probably tell its still a work in progress, since most of my icons are blank. All I have in there right now are invisible placeholders that lead to nowhere. They'll all come back as I get everything reinstalled.

That's about all for now. I wonder if someone would think I was actually on the Japanese Windows Xp if I showed that one to them, because almost everything that could possibly be in Japanese is in that screenshot except for "Items" in the recycle bin widget, which I could easily change in about 2 seconds.

Edited by Questwizard88, 01 February 2007 - 10:39 PM.

[Solarrain4]

All right, I've got one. Though I doubt anyone will actually look at it. Maybe I'll be surprised?

Fox's Desktop

Yeah, I know, it's not all that impressive. I go for a very clean, simple look without any unneccessary functionality. Simplicity is nice.

Also, after reviewing the last few desktops, bonus points are awarded to the following two people:

Taku of Miso, because Ikaruga is simply awesome, and unfairly looked over.

Takuya, with retro points, because the name "Nick" is on his desktop. Forgot about that.

Is that Vista?

[Bowser Blanchette]

How do I take a picture of my desktop...

[Solarrain4]

You know the Print Screen button on the keyboard? Hit that (chances are, you'll have to use an F-lock or something like that), and then simply paste into Paint or any image editor like that.

Anyway... here's my new one (first time using the olive green color scheme) (56K WARNING: 1 meg)

http://img264.images...op020807fd8.png

I had to scale it a bit so the file would be small enough for Imageshack to load, but oh well. Yes, for those who see my battery icon, I do have a laptop.

Edited by Solarrain4, 08 February 2007 - 09:39 PM.

[Bowser Blanchette]

Thanks, Solarrain4!

And now one of my many desktops pics...or something along that line...

Here's Al!

[Solarrain4]

(sees wireless icon) You on a laptop, too?

[LinktheMaster]

Is that Vista?

No, I think Fox just has several modifications to Windows XP. The look is probably done via Windows Blinds or another similar program.