[jagga]

I just had to become post#200 on this thread. Here ya go

webserver taken down. sorry

Jagga

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[whirk]

Irnbru,

Where did you get your desktop picture? I love it and if it's possible to get ahold of it I would like to...if you read this thread again ;-)

[mr_sonicblue]

OK, here's my GM desktop:



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[Todd Madson]

I wouldn't want to feel left out!

[Primus]

Hey Todd, where did you get this Aurora drawing ?

[dfbennett]

http://homepage.mac.com/dfbennett/.Pictures/desktop.jpg

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[mindwaves]

A rather simplistic looking desktop right now. I am in the flux of changing things.




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[Todd Madson]

The aurora picture came from Adrian Mann's website. He's the guy that makes very realistic speculative pictures of what secret aircraft look like. The screenshot is about as close as we're likely to see what Chris Gibson saw in the North Sea back in '89 unless of course the government decides to reveal the thing.

[Agent69]

This is the thread that never ends,
it goes on and on my friends....

Agent69

[Gametes]

Why do you guys put icons on the desktop?
Double clicking them brings up a Finder window anyway, so why not use the Dock which is never hidden and takes only one click?
Really, it is just so tacky.

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[iMan]

dfbennett,

Where did you get your desktop image? Also on your desktop you have an alias to a music folder with an awsome alto sax on the folder. I play an Alto Sax and I would really like to know where you got it?

[Brad Nelson]

http://homepage.mac.com/bradnelsonx/...screenshot.jpg

A somewhat minimalist approach. No Dock because it doesn't work for me. Drop Drawers does. Desktop pics just slow down window resizing. I find icons on the desktop to be near useless in OS X. OS X's Finder is just crap for actually organizing things. But you ought to see my lively and active OS 9.1 desktop. Now THAT makes for a great tool (can I say "tool"?).

[mindwaves]

Simple yet effective Brad. I am going to follow your lead but with a bit of a twist.

[dfbennett]

Originally posted by iMan:
dfbennett,

Where did you get your desktop image? Also on your desktop you have an alias to a music folder with an awsome alto sax on the folder. I play an Alto Sax and I would really like to know where you got it?

I found the alto sax icon over at www.xicons.com If you look click folders you should find it on one of those pages. The desktop background was found at www.macdesktops.com Click on Landscapes-Rural and it's on that page. Lemme know if you have trouble finding them!

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[dfbennett]

Originally posted by Gametes:
Why do you guys put icons on the desktop?
Double clicking them brings up a Finder window anyway, so why not use the Dock which is never hidden and takes only one click?
Really, it is just so tacky.

Personally, I like an uncluttered dock. I leave no apps in it(only running apps) and only two folders-an apple menu like shortcut folder and my home directory. Who cares if it's tacky it's my desktop I'll do what I want with it


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[rgoer]

and this is a link to a really high-res shot:
but be warned, it's 5.2 megs


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[Since EBCDIC]

rgoer, where did you get that wonderful forest image? I would love to see it more closely.

As far as my desktops go, here are three of them, since things are always changing over here...

The first one shows me reading the MacNN fora in one Internet Explorer window, the Apache Tomcat servlet JSP engine home page in another MSIE window, the written-in-Java installer for Sun's Java IDE at left, the Apache web server home page in another MSIE window, several translucent Terminal windows, the foremost of which is running GNU Emacs, iTunes in the bottom right, and a desktop background of blueberries.



This one shows an autumnal scene on the desktop, a translucent terminal window, and the hard drive appearing on the desktop. (I got bored with the desktop icons and switched them off. They're so OS9 :-)




And lastly, the most minimal of all: me listening to a bit of music with a picture of Black Rock City (Burning Man 2000) as the background.



I hope this wasn't too much. I just had these lying around and was so impressed with what y'all have shared...

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[rgoer]

rgoer, where did you get that wonderful forest image? I would love to see it more closely.

in terminal (copy and paste, if needs be):
sudo cp '/System/Library/Screen Savers/Forest.saver/Contents/Resources/Images/Forest12.jpg' '/Library/Desktop Pictures/Forest12.jpg'

now, in Finder Preferences, Forest12.jpg should be available to you from the default Desktop Pictures path.


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[BigMac2]

This is my little contribution ;-)


I really love the DesktopConsole program for monitoring any Console warning and any FTP intruder
you can get an high resolution picture here!

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[brainchild2b]

roger how did you make your finder folder windows transparent so the forest shows throught them (not the terminal windows) that is way cool.

[gorgonzola]

Originally posted by brainchild2b:
roger how did you make your finder folder windows transparent so the forest shows throught them (not the terminal windows) that is way cool.

I don't think they're transparent, I think he just mucked with the desktop image he's using and used that picture as a Finder window background.

It doesn't match with the desktop picture (where it is on the screen), that's why. Definitely very cool look though.

(btw, the Cosmos screensaver has some VERY cool pictures in its bundle, look around there too).

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[spauldingg]

just one more...
http://homepage.mac.com/jpickard/.Pi...screengrab.jpg

[nicholasbs]

Here's mine:

http://homepage.mac.com/nicholasbs/..../mydesktop.jpg

Pretty simple, NexBar is running on the right.

[Agent69]

spauldingg,

Where did you get the planet icons? They are awesome!


Agent69

[spauldingg]

Agent69
i got them at www.Xicons.com they were hard to re-find after all this time so I did the search for author James Doyle, and got this:
http://xicons.macnn.com/services/res...e=6&auth=james doyle&start=6

if that link doesn't work, do the search again, and click on more search results at the bottom of the page.

PS: <horntooting> the smiley guy icon in the dock is the first and only icon I ever made. hope to make more for the dockperverts.com site i've been working on </horntooting>

[iMan]

Thanks dfbennett!!!

[dfbennett]

Originally posted by iMan:
Thanks dfbennett!!!

No problem. Glad I could help!

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[Gametes]

So is there a desktop pic randomizer yet?
I'd like options for it to switch upon reset, sleep, log out, or even a cron to change it at a specified interval.
yummy...

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[tz3gm]

how'd you make the finder window transparent? or how'd u get the window with the planet icons transparent?

[Maelman]

how do you get the terminal to show directorys, apps, docs as different colors? and what does the 'Disable ANSI Colors' option do?

[BigMac2]

To colorize the ls command you got to compile the Gnu FileUtils, you can get it on freshmeat.net. And the disable Ansi colors command is for removing all colors in terminal if some programs use it..

[tie]

Here is my desktop picture, with Neko, Enlightenment, forest12 pics everywhere, and the result of my attempt to compile the gimp.

[Todd Madson]

Whoa, I want access to that desktopconsole app - where is it?

Very handy little thing.

[Todd Madson]

Nevermind - I found it. Excellent.

[smart]

Hey, rgoer

Where did you find those icons? I have some of them. (iconfactory) But some like the document folder i haven't seen. Where can i get them?

/Stefan

[splyn]

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[tjw-omni]

Here is my desktop... well, my dock anyway

http://www.omnigroup.com/dock.png

[SmileyDude]

BigMac2 -- where can I possibly get that background of yours??? I have an Indigo iBook, and I love having backgrounds that match.. (I know.. it's silly... I admit it... )

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[splyn]

BigMac2 & Todd Madson,

where is the desktopconsole? ive looked just about everywhere. is it part of the developer tools?

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[mindwaves]

Here is mine (a new one):
http://homepage.mac.com/simwaves/.Pictures/desk.tiff

I have a menustrip in the upper right that allows single window mode and other stuff.

[BigMac2]

For SmilleyDude, There is where I got my WallPaper endeffect.com.

And now for the DesktopConsole App.

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[havannas]

Blamo!

http://home.earthlink.net/~notepad/sparkle.jpg


EDIT- made image into link.

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[Zadian]

here is my desktop - Mac OS X as a serious OS ;-)
http://homepage.mac.com/tian/serioes2.jpg

[ReggieX]

A little something I whipped up last night.
OS 9 currently has a black&white Winona Ryder pic, both are available on my site

Reg



Heh

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[Teronzhul]

i like emerald

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Here goes mine.. you can't see the background pic oh well.
http://homepage.mac.com/tae/screenshot.jpg

[Synotic]

Cool shots so far. Here are some themes I made myself. They are only alpha so don't waste your time saying anything is screwed. I also have several color variations such as emerald, but those are boring. You can get them all in my theme bundle if you like though. E-mail me at: [email protected]

Platinum:


Brushed Metal:


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[tie]

Synotic, I like platinum. It's so quaint. But in a good way. How does one install OS X themes?

[Synotic]

Originally posted by tie:
Synotic, I like platinum. It's so quaint. But in a good way. How does one install OS X themes?

There is a file called "Extras.rcrs" you can modify that file then replace it. In my theme bundle I have full instructions. The theme bundle doesn't currently have Platinum or Titanium, although I may be willing to give you the alpha copies if you wish to help me design some elements.

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[limbotron]

Hey synnotic, have you been stealing from the mexican? Or did you get an early build of his stuff. Your screenshot is obviously copying or using early versions of his platinum theme. I just emailed him for an article I am writing and he sent me some screenshots of his new stuff. You are obviously several generations behind (the newer versions have much nicer scroll bars and have proper small window widgets). If you do have a copy of his theme, how did you convince him to give it to you? I had to promise not to show my screenshots until next month.

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p.s. How do I know you are cribbing? Well, the red apple and the Be OS growbox kind of give it away.