Battle for the Most Eye-Candied Desktop

[acelin]

Post screenshots plus info!:guitar::guitar::guitar:

[acelin]

Here is one I found that is insane with just how much stuff this guy has on his desktop...

[kk0sse54]

little cluttered for me but what's that thing on the bottom right hand corner?

[acelin]

little cluttered for me but what's that thing on the bottom right hand corner?

I'm not sure- this wasnt my screenshot. just one I found.

[init1]

I win :D

[Sealbhach]

Here's mine, simple but I like it.

[UniverseA7X]

My KDE desktop. Simple and pretty. :)

74778

[harryhood]

Kanotix

[Th3Professor]

Here's mine, simple but I like it.

How did ya get the birdies (animated?) and the mix of sun, mountain/island thing, blue sky, etc.?

[Th3Professor]

Ancient thread... and though I've been reviving some fun ones in here (or maybe it's OMGPP)... I actually am pretty curious about that (my last comment with the question about the birds animated, mix of sun, island, etc.). Any ideas how to accomplish that?

[Sealbhach]

Ancient thread... and though I've been reviving some fun ones in here (or maybe it's OMGPP)... I actually am pretty curious about that (my last comment with the question about the birds animated, mix of sun, island, etc.). Any ideas how to accomplish that?

They're not animated, it's just the picture I used for my skydome - the birdies don't move. It's just the ordinary Compiz cube.



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[Th3Professor]

Here's mine, simple but I like it.

Where did you get it or could you share a copy of that background image?

It's pretty neat. :D

[Sealbhach]

Where did you get it or could you share a copy of that background image?

It's pretty neat. :D


I'm sorry, I don't have the image any more. If you jusy Google for "HD wallpaper" you'll find loads of cool free wallpapers.


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[Th3Professor]

GOOD idea!

Here's a nice uby pic...

http://www.hdwallpapers.net/gallery/thumbnails/computer/computer_0004_lightbox.jpg

...not in the resolution I'd like but it's nice.

Created with Blender, maybe?

[gjoellee]

I think Windows 1.0.1 is pretty full of eye candy for my grandpa!
http://www.brokenthorn.com/Resources/images/Windows1.gif

[Cygnus]

Things have not improved much:

http://robots.org.uk/stuff/WordToolbars.jpg

[Darkade]

Things have not improved much:

http://robots.org.uk/stuff/WordToolbars.jpg

LOL!!

BTW isn't this thread the same as posting your desktop screenshot in the cafe?

[nickgaydos]

Here's my Desktop...nothing original...just testing stuff with AWN/Compiz/Emerald.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m26/nick_gaydos/nicksdekstop.png

[tom66]

Here's mine. Got the image from Wikipedia and played around with it. My desktop is bare except for the one 'runall.sh' shell script which is often used by me as part of my development of my latest project.

[Th3Professor]

Here's my Desktop...nothing original...just testing stuff with AWN/Compiz/Emerald.
http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m26/nick_gaydos/nicksdekstop.png

this is OT but i'm curious... i saw your openarena icon in that shot... i've tested it out a bit though haven't really had much luck getting onto any servers, are there any tricks to that?

plus, still OT ;) ...are there more maps, beyond the default ones with OA?

[jimi_hendrix]

this is OT but i'm curious... i saw your openarena icon in that shot... i've tested it out a bit though haven't really had much luck getting onto any servers, are there any tricks to that?

plus, still OT ;) ...are there more maps, beyond the default ones with OA?

OA ive had that problem with at least 3 other games

post my desktop but i cant paste picture to screen...i know it saves but this is special...

[Th3Professor]

OA ive had that problem with at least 3 other games

post my desktop but i cant paste picture to screen...i know it saves but this is special...

Do you mean you have had that problem with 3+ other games but not OA? Or you have also had that problem with OA? I'm curious about getting it online, it might be fun to try it that way.

Anyway, back on subject...

Here are my wallpapers/backgrounds at the moment, though they are definitely *not* any kind of "most eye-candied" desktops. Oh well... here they are...

I tried attaching the image files, though even after attempting to resize them to 50% (within this forum's reply window), they still came back at 100%. Oh well. I went ahead and uploaded them instead.

Anybody know why the top edge of the anime wallpaper gets clip-ish with the "auto-hide" panel feature? I'm not really sure why it's doing that. Maybe it's just a bug in the gnome app?

The anime one is just a screenshot from a scene in a particular series, so it's a little zig-zaggy around the outlines/edges, though it's still a neat shot. ;)

The other one, I had to resize the image... my screen resolution (1280x800) doesn't seem to be extremely popular for those wallpaper websites, total bummer. Or maybe I've just missed some good sites.

Anyway, these current backgrounds are pretty simple, though simplicity is always nice.

So, who knows who those 2 people are? :D

[xen-uno]

Surely not candied, but simple and logical ... modeled after W2K.

80321

[Th3Professor]

Do you mean you have had that problem with 3+ other games but not OA? Or you have also had that problem with OA? I'm curious about getting it online, it might be fun to try it that way.

Anyway, back on subject...

Here are my wallpapers/backgrounds at the moment, though they are definitely *not* any kind of "most eye-candied" desktops. Oh well... here they are...

I tried attaching the image files, though even after attempting to resize them to 50% (within this forum's reply window), they still came back at 100%. Oh well. I went ahead and uploaded them instead.

Anybody know why the top edge of the anime wallpaper gets clip-ish with the "auto-hide" panel feature? I'm not really sure why it's doing that. Maybe it's just a bug in the gnome app?

The anime one is just a screenshot from a scene in a particular series, so it's a little zig-zaggy around the outlines/edges, though it's still a neat shot. ;)

The other one, I had to resize the image... my screen resolution (1280x800) doesn't seem to be extremely popular for those wallpaper websites, total bummer. Or maybe I've just missed some good sites.

Anyway, these current backgrounds are pretty simple, though simplicity is always nice.

So, who knows who those 2 people are? :D

Okay, well nobody named them, so the 2 people in my screenshots were...
Yuki Nagato (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_Nagato) (from "The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (http://myanimelist.net/anime.php?id=849)")
Scarlett Johansson (http://www.wallpapergate.com/data/media/858/ScarlettJohansson_001.jpg) (...from the movies (http://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson))

I'm guessing people knew it was Scarlett... but a free cookie goes to anybody who knew the other one was Nagato. :)


Surely not candied, but simple and logical ... modeled after W2K.

80321

Do I see the Silver Surfer flying of Colorado? [j/k] :D

[jimi_hendrix]

Do you mean you have had that problem with 3+ other games but not OA? Or you have also had that problem with OA? I'm curious about getting it online, it might be fun to try it that way.

I tried attaching the image files, though even after attempting to resize them to 50% (within this forum's reply window), they still came back at 100%. Oh well. I went ahead and uploaded them instead.

So, who knows who those 2 people are? :D

for the OA thing no the only online games that work for me in ubuntu are nexuiz and wesnoth

is there a way i can just ctrl + v my picture in here?

[Th3Professor]

I don't know if ^v works but you can click on the little square picture (in the reply window) that has a yellow background and a couple gray/grey mountains in the foreground and, what I suppose is, a gray/grey sun in the background. Then link it. Though the better way is to attach the file. In your reply page, scroll down below the actual "reply window" where you type stuff, and down to "Additional Options", click on the button "Manage Attachments". It should let you "browse" to find your files and add them to the post (5 max, I think), then click "upload", after it's done (you'll see it change) scroll down that window (it's a pop-up window) and click "close this window". You'll be back in the normal reply window/page, and can click on "submit reply". :KS:KS:KS:KS:KS

[hotrod6657]

Here's mine. I don't know how to get a screenshot of the cube in action but it look pretty sweet imho haha. It's basically just a cool background though ;)

hotrod

EDIT Just noticed that my image is really small. It's larger than that when i open it on my computer, not sure what i have to do to get a bigger shot attached.

EDIT That's better!

[iamBevan]

Sweet

[gjoellee]

http://bochs.sourceforge.net/screenshot/bochs_for_windows2.bmp

[MaxIBoy]

I've posted this here before, but I think this is a good context to post it again.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pcfBt3qgsc


Things haven't changed too much since that video, except for my custom emerald theme (in progress, still haven't done the buttons) and new desktop background:

[nickgaydos]

this is OT but i'm curious... i saw your openarena icon in that shot... i've tested it out a bit though haven't really had much luck getting onto any servers, are there any tricks to that?

plus, still OT ;) ...are there more maps, beyond the default ones with OA?

Hmm...I'm not sure...I usually just play locally with my brother or friends on the same network...I have tried a few times to get online but that was when I had 0.7.6....now i have 0.7.7 nad I havn't tried it yet...hopefully it works because it seems fun :)