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The official "clean desktop" club v2010
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and with an window open i can do this lol i have my whole pc matched in colour
its called themage lol i love themes
for all that want to know i have no idea where the waqllpeper is from how ever i will post it for you and the theme is called dark orange fox and i just moded the color choser in vista
here is the link to the wallpaper
http://img521.imageshack.us/i/ubuntureflectivebysubmi.jpg/
its called themage lol i love themes
for all that want to know i have no idea where the waqllpeper is from how ever i will post it for you and the theme is called dark orange fox and i just moded the color choser in vista
here is the link to the wallpaper
http://img521.imageshack.us/i/ubuntureflectivebysubmi.jpg/
NukeULater
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One icon, four gadets and and an auto hiding start menu.
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I want your gadgets! 
NukeULater
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The gadgets I am using are, Black Glass CPU Meter, Sushi's DriveInfo, Vista Clock and Multi meter 4 cores.I want your gadgets!
After going through this thread again I couldn't help be unsatisfied by my previous background. Here is attempt #2 -- I'm much happier with the results. I only wish I could use the desktop email notification in Rainmeter, but people being able to see your password seems like a silly security risk, I'll probably end up replacing the Gmail skin with a power meter or something.
What skin are you using for rainmeter to get the boxes on the left?
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stop!theradio
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What's wrong with it? In my experience, it's great. Works well, customizable as can be, etc.
Yes, you are the only person.
I usually don't use a dock but I've been playing around with XWindows Dock. It's ok I guess but has a ways to go.
Executor (lower right @ left monitor) is a far better launcher than any dock.
Top right @ right monitor is Rainmeter using VAtch clock and SimpleWeather-Update (icons replaced).
Lower right @ right monitor is AIMP using Euporia Lux skin.
All desk icons hidden using Iconoid.
Wallpaper Here
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Blasphemy
Seriously though, there have been setups where I didn't want it, but I can't see how you can call it a horrible program. Especially since they swapped the default setup to Enigma. The original default setup, now THAT was horrible.
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What icon set are you using? Thanks.
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Token, indeed.
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First one is my Desktop nothing open.
Second Desktop showing Start menu, and Icon bar
Third is showing the icon bar completely open
I get all my wallpapers from http://www.deviantart.com/ and http://www.caedes.net/, as well as various places from all over the net... so i don't always have links for them I'm sorry.
Damn't why aren't my images showing up? I'm using picasa for them.
Second Desktop showing Start menu, and Icon bar
Third is showing the icon bar completely open
I get all my wallpapers from http://www.deviantart.com/ and http://www.caedes.net/, as well as various places from all over the net... so i don't always have links for them I'm sorry.
Damn't why aren't my images showing up? I'm using picasa for them.
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So what do you use? Samurize? Or nothing at all? I wasn't a big fan of desktop widgets of any sort 'tilll Win7 (due to Aero peek)... Now I'm using Rainmeter for some hard drive capacity gadgets (since I started using smaller SSD for my OS, so I gotta keep an eye on that), temps, and battery (on the netbook). Didn't see much of a need to display system info on the desktop before the SSD tho, usually I just checked the tray icon for battery power, tho that was a bit of an extra step. I have a dock but it's just for game icons, I close it whenever I'm not gonna be gaming. Seems a lil' redundant to me w/Win7's taskbar...
I can't see any of your SS floober... Just empty space in the post.
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I go through stages. I was /addicted/ to rain meter for a while. I had all sorts of info on my desktop, useless or not. Then, i got into very minimalistic. Low key, just the prominent info. On my laptop I even went to a minimal conky config too.
Then, i didn't even use it for a while. For about 6-7 months I didn't use /any/ monitoring program like that-Rainmeter nor conky.
Now, I'm back into rainmeter. Running a very minimalistic setup with it. It's nice, especially on a netbook with a low end cpu, ram, and knowing the batter info
Really digging kizen's Rainmeter look. It meshes well with the wallpaper. I used Rainmeter when I had Windows XP but I haven't bothered to use it with Windows 7. Moreover, my desktop is generally covered with firefox, utorrent, and MPC-HC. I would post my wallpaper, but it honestly hasn't changed from the New York City by Paulo Barcellos Jr. wallpaper from interfacelift.
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Sorry it took me a while to respond.vdragonlance: even though you have the taskbar on hide, what style is that?
i have to say, your desktops have impressed me ever since i read through the whole first "clean desktop"- thread in a week a couple of months ago
The VS is PPOWS2010 by Neiio.
VS linked at the top of the page.
Icons: http://aablab.deviantart.com/art/Icon-Pack-2-160714703
Start button take from this VS: http://tacony.deviantart.com/art/Astral-160457291
Foobar: http://deskmodder.deviantart.com/art/Snap-7-Foobar-156156237
Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/14284
Can you quantify this statement? It's lightweight, reliable, and configurable. Exactly how is it a horrible program?
I don't hate it, but it's pretty pointless IMO.
Nothing, they don't really seem to afford any vital infomation that you don't already get. HDD space is shown in explorer, CPU/RAM in task manager (not to mention running rainmeter adds to the load on both). I just don't really like cluttering up my desktop with all that info when it's not really vital to me to see it in a second. I used samurize for a while but stopped for the same reason. That and I can't seem to find a Rainmeter theme that isn't really trendwhorish and web 2.0 gradient/transparency/lineart effects
The interface and use of it could do with a bit of work too.I guess it's good if you want a massive clock on your screen all the time instead of in the corner, or want to see your battery info on a laptop. But using it on a desktop it just doesn't seem to offer anything, not even nice-looking themes. Just more clutter. I should've qualified my original post by saying it was "horrible for what I need or any kind of original-looking interface".
Nothing, they don't really seem to afford any vital infomation that you don't already get. HDD space is shown in explorer, CPU/RAM in task manager (not to mention running rainmeter adds to the load on both). I just don't really like cluttering up my desktop with all that info when it's not really vital to me to see it in a second. I used samurize for a while but stopped for the same reason. That and I can't seem to find a Rainmeter theme that isn't really trendwhorish and web 2.0 gradient/transparency/lineart effects
I guess it's good if you want a massive clock on your screen all the time instead of in the corner, or want to see your battery info on a laptop. But using it on a desktop it just doesn't seem to offer anything, not even nice-looking themes. Just more clutter. I should've qualified my original post by saying it was "horrible for what I need or any kind of original-looking interface".
Shortly after high school I wrote a samurize config that completely replaced the taskbar. It was made to be simpler than the taskbar, more functional for my needs, and look nicer too. You can see it in the below screenshot (I left the taskbar in the ss to show the theme being used.) HItting the bottom left icon brought up the menu, bottom right icon showed tray stuff iirc. Program in the middle was Gehrunnerjunge to shut down, restart, etc, activated by hitting "END" in my menu. There's a lot more to the programs than just sys stats and clocks. Not trying to convince you to use either, just trying to shed some light on what seems to be the never ending amount of sameness in the programs.
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Credit to J3 Concepts for the icons used
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Shortly after high school I wrote a samurize config that completely replaced the taskbar. It was made to be simpler than the taskbar, more functional for my needs, and look nicer too. You can see it in the below screenshot (I left the taskbar in the ss to show the theme being used.) HItting the bottom left icon brought up the menu, bottom right icon showed tray stuff iirc. Program in the middle was Gehrunnerjunge to shut down, restart, etc, activated by hitting "END" in my menu. There's a lot more to the programs than just sys stats and clocks. Not trying to convince you to use either, just trying to shed some light on what seems to be the never ending amount of sameness in the programs.
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Credit to J3 Concepts for the icons used
Yeah, I get and appreciate that, I'd do the same if I had the incentive to learn but for my use rocketdock and explorer are adequate. I was mainly referring to the process of downloading rainmeter, loading up one of these pre-set configs and pointing them to your regional weather ticker, that sort of thing.
I guess it comes from when I had a less capable computer and liked stuff to be as streamlined as possible in terms of interface and resource usage. I'd probably do the same as you mention, replacing the taskbar with something bespoke but I wouldn't be happy having explorer.exe running alongside something. Two processes consuming resources that serve the same purpose wouldn't make sense to me. The only reason I still use rocketdock in W7 is because I can't get the application launching icons centred, and I don't like the way the stacked windows-in-use thing works. I'd be interested in playing around with a similar setup to the one in your screenshot though, if that's on 7.
Yeah, I getcha. That particular setup was on xp, but the samurize config was fairly independent from the os, so it all should still work (though I'd have to rewrite the config, forgot to back it up many reformats ago
). Only thing I'd have to figure out is how the tray works in 7, but I would imagine it's not too hard to have a popup tray linked to the icon To this day, that was still one of my favorite setups. I've got some time this week since I'm on spring break, I'll look into recreating it on my current machine and possibly release it if I can get it working right. From there, it's SUPER simple to tailor it to your needs/liking (swap images and change paths for your programs)