"Real Desktop" for XP

[Bungo Pony]

I have to admit, this is pretty cool! It puts Microsoft to shame for innovation.

http://www.real-desktop.de/English/index.htm

[n3tfury]

looks more like a game. who the hell wants to see a "desk" full of garbage?

i hate icons by default and crap on the desktop, but maybe that's just me.

[danny joe ritchie]

I'd go nuts with all that garbage on my desktop! I don't know whats worse, icons all over my desktop or opening 50 windows just to get something done!

[LaRoza]

i hate icons by default and crap on the desktop, but maybe that's just me.

Not just you, I don't even have a tool bar or panel (Xfce).

-EDIT Just realized it is not free, might as well be MS

[marsmissionaries]

what the hell? how is that innovative?!

It's unorganized.

[Iceni]

Looks like a bad version of BumpTop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ

[Bungo Pony]

It is innovative. It's a different approach to using a desktop. It looks like a messy bedroom, but it's different and I give the creator credit for that.

You can't tell me that Vista is innovative.

[Kingsley]

looks more like a game. who the hell wants to see a "desk" full of garbage?

i hate icons by default and crap on the desktop, but maybe that's just me.
I'm with you lol. What the hell would I look like playing with a bunch of icons on my desktop?

[argie]

Looks cool, but my desktop is not a real 'desktop' it's just an interface to the computer. I think it's a mistake to go and fall for the 'desktop is a desktop' idea. Next, all windows won't show you any programs they'll show you the outside world, to 'take the window metaphor to the next step'.

[K.Mandla]

Looks like a bad version of BumpTop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ
I was going to say, that's been done and about a year ago. But Iceni beat me to it.

[starcraft.man]

How many people care that much about their icons, that's what I want to know. I really don't see how this adds to productivity...

[vexorian]

real desktop: bringing the improductive disorder of real life to your desktop!

[n3tfury]

real desktop: bringing the improductive disorder of real life to your desktop!

there'd be another thread dedicated to screenshots of that very thing. *shudders*

[RageOfOrder]

There's actually a lot of neat things for XP that don't improve productivity and just look neat.

ShereXP (http://www.spheresite.com/) released a beta long before the first release of Compiz or Beryl. It allows you to work inside or outside around a giant shpere for an environmnet.

Tactile 3D (http://www.tactile3d.com/tac.php?opt=overview&subopt=images) is another cool idea. But it's not practical and you can minimize it. Which takes away from the whole experience. You still have a start menu and can hit "show desktop".

Tactile would have to be it's own DE completely to be at all useful.

And of course there's Yod'm 3D (http://www.crystalxp.net/news/en168-yod-m-3d-windows-desktop.htm) which gives a slightly less cool desktop cube to Windows.

Go figure.

[tvrg]

there have been a zillion tries to create a new "desktop" metafor (looking glass, 3ddesktop whatever).

The reason you don't see any of those projects on a real system is because it simply doesn't work and there is nothing wrong with the file/folder metaphor we are using now

[LaRoza]

If only someone made an Xfce-like DM for Windows...

[Paul820]

I can't understand why anyone would want to pay to have that mess all over their desktop :confused: How long will the novelty last? You can stack them and throw them around and that's it by the looks of it. I can't stand a messy desktop so maybe that's why i don't find it appealing. What else does it do apart from what i mentioned?

[arsenic23]

If you think about it though, these kinds of things could be usefull in the future. Right now we have to wade through this clutter with our keyboards and mice. But imagine a future where you can controll your PC with your voice and by touching the screen. At that point in time a 3d data display might be very usefull. Obviously not that desktop thing though, what a mess.

[delfick]

If only someone made an Xfce-like DM for Windows...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_shell_replacement :D

(sharpe is starting to look the most promising of them :D)

[LaRoza]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_shell_replacement :D

(sharpe is starting to look the most promising of them :D)

Thanks, I'll check on it and report back if it works out.

[hessiess]

i have sirious doubts how usfal that would actualy bee, its a game

[happy-and-lost]

Looks like fun to play with, but a nightmare to use.

[jrusso2]

I can actually see how that could be useful. Imagine if you had a lot of windows open and you could line them up on an angle and see what was on each windows.

[wersdaluv]

It's an entertaining way to make life harder

[vexorian]

It's an entertaining way to make life harder
it is targetted towards windows users anyways...

Actually, because of its cool factor I kind of hope to see something like this added to compiz or whatever in Linux, we could even make it useful by changing some stuff..

[tocky]

I believe that this looks totally awsome, kinda mac like, but better.

http://cairoshell.com/

[n3tfury]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desktop_shell_replacement :D

(sharpe is starting to look the most promising of them :D)

i've been using BBLEAN on XP for a couple of years now at home and at work.

[FuturePilot]

Looks like a bad version of BumpTop

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ

Yup, that's what I was thinking of too.

I don't know how anyone could find anything in that mess:-k I hate icons all over the desktop. I like my nice clean Ubuntu.:mrgreen:

[LaRoza]

i've been using BBLEAN on XP for a couple of years now at home and at work.

Thanks! Exactly what I want, no cluttered desktop, and works anywhere.

[Vadi]

Looks interesting, but I find that the scale & cubed desktop help productivity much better.

[MetalMusicAddict]

-EDIT Just realized it is not free, might as well be MS
Yeah, because nobody has the right to make a living off their work.

This is fun. If you have a XP box try it out but I don't see it as something to use all the time.

[delfick]

I believe that this looks totally awsome, kinda mac like, but better.

http://cairoshell.com/

i've never seen that one before, that looks cool. :D


i've been using BBLEAN on XP for a couple of years now at home and at work.

cool

i've been using a combination of wake up pro (http://www.egrabow.com/ram.php?src=WUP), object dock (http://www.stardock.com/products/objectdock/), launchy (http://www.launchy.net/index.html), tray, core, and desktop from emergedeskop (http://emergedesktop.org/), noia icons for windows (http://carlitus.deviantart.com/art/Noia-for-WindowsXP-2-01-3011644), this userstyle (http://grrinder.deviantart.com/art/RoyalMod-8521744) and to bypass the explorer shell, Carapace (the one at the bottom) (http://sharpe-shell.org/page.php?7) for quite some time now, it's really good :D

screenshot attached :D (windows is running in virtualbox on my linux machine)

[nowshining]

The general idea is awesome tho.. :) I sort of like it.. altho I really miss litestep lolz..

[LaRoza]

Yeah, because nobody has the right to make a living off their work.


I didn't say they didn't. I was refering to the OP's implication that it is better than Microsoft's efforts. If it were free and better, that would be something, the fact that it is not, just makes it another toy for Windows, nothing that can be used to "bash" MS.

[n3tfury]

@delfick
great work!

[Frak]

Too... Messy... AHHH!!!!

[Frak]

If somebody hasn't mentioned it yet... Looking Glass (https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/) from Sun Microsystems