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Nevermind, you beat me to it
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.
I must be the only person that can't stand Rainmeter. Horrible, horrible program.
I must be the only person that can't stand Rainmeter. Horrible, horrible program.
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I must be the only person that can't stand Rainmeter. Horrible, horrible program.
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...
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
I must be the only person that can't stand Rainmeter. Horrible, horrible program.
I must be the only person that can't stand Rainmeter. Horrible, horrible program.
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.
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".
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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