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Leopard wallpaper is a joke right?
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Does anyone know if the grass wallpaper that is used in the preview of leopard is the official wallpaper? Surely that can't be it!!!!! It looks so vista... and vista = ugly!!!!!
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Steve Jobs said that everybody is using his own pictures as desktop background these days. To enforce this a little bit the default Leopard background picture is intentionally ugly.
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On the latest build (well, 9a559 anyway), the default wallpaper is a cosmos scene. I find it more appealing than the (busy) grass, but not the best space image I've seen by a longshot.
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It's the aurora borealis, not some space scene as many think it is.
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wow... that's the most intense aurora borealis I've ever seen.
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Originally Posted by TETENAL
Steve Jobs said that everybody is using his own pictures as desktop background these days. To enforce this a little bit the default Leopard background picture is intentionally ugly.
What an asinine comment.
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I really hope they come up with a new variation on the typical OSX desktop blue dealio.
Each one looks better than its predecessor and is usually the desktop I stick with longer than any other.
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I quite liked the grass desktop when I first saw it, and put it on all the screens I use often, then changed it to the space one when it was happily posted. The grass got a lot of positive comments from people, but it looked so much shinier in the leopard preview movies, and I don't think that was just because of the reflective dock and transluscent menubar.
The desktop I've stuck with longest, I would say, is the third hit on a Google image search for true aqua.
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I like the default Tiger wallpaper. :/
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Originally Posted by swiz
I really hope they come up with a new variation on the typical OSX desktop blue dealio.
Each one looks better than its predecessor and is usually the desktop I stick with longer than any other.
I agree. I find myself coming back to the blue wallpaper very often.
If they don't design a new one, I'll probably still use the 10.4 one.
Regarding the new wallpaper. I notice it has a lot of dark areas on it. When a window is over those areas can you still see the drop shadow? That's one reason I do not use a very dark desktop picture, since I like the drop shadows under windows.
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The Aurora desktop image is the best one Apple has ever done (IMO).
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The drop shadows are very subtle in this build, so it does tend to get a bit "lost" over darker areas. I don't mind though.
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I love both the Grass and the Aurora.
But I hope for a new Blue abstract as well.
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Is by any chance this one with the water lily included?
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I really love the Blue Tiles wallpaper.
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I really wish people would stop calling it ‘wallpaper’. It's a bloody desktop, what kind of retard puts fụcking wallpaper on a desk?
I like both the grass and the aurora desktop pictures, but generally prefer the lighter backdrops.
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Originally Posted by red rocket
I really wish people would stop calling it ‘wallpaper’. It's a bloody desktop, what kind of retard puts fụcking wallpaper on a desk?
I like both the grass and the aurora desktop pictures, but generally prefer the lighter backdrops.
Those kinds of words are bad karma. you know that right? such passion over wallpaper/desktop lol.
I dont mind the green grass and the aurora ones... i wouldnt keep em as a desktop for more than a day though... only when i need a change. They get boring real quick. My dog will go straight to my desktop pic as it is now
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Originally Posted by angelmb
Is by any chance this one with the water lily included?
Yep! Or at least one very similar...
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Originally Posted by imitchellg5
Yep! Or at least one very similar...
Huh? Which one are you talking about?
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I know one like it was in an older build. Don't know if it's still in there, I haven't booted Leopard for a while. It could always be MacWorld's own wallpaper, but I remember one similar to that with a water lily.
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Originally Posted by swiz
I really hope they come up with a new variation on the typical OSX desktop blue dealio.
Each one looks better than its predecessor and is usually the desktop I stick with longer than any other.
very true.
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I just noticed the blue version of the 10.5 wallpaper on the Mac OS X Server page.
I like it in blue. The only thing I'm not crazy about is that the bottom is dark and dropshadows vanish when windows are over black.
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If you don't like the frigging desktop picture then change it.
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I may end up swapping the purple wallpaper for Server's blue when it comes out. It's just so... soothing.
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Anyone have the full version of that one already? I've seen the server floating around, so...
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Originally Posted by DogGone
If you don't like the frigging desktop picture then change it.
Yeah. DTP are easier to change than other things. So I don't see what the big deal is. It's not like you have to hack the system to change the DTP.
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I hate the Server version. It is just a modified version of the regular Aurora and it looks terribly washed-out and bland in person.
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[QUOTE=red rocket;3507172]I really wish people would stop calling it ‘wallpaper’. It's a bloody desktop, what kind of retard puts fụcking wallpaper on a desk?
I like both the grass and the aurora desktop pictures, but generally prefer the lighter backdrops.[/QUOTE
What kind of retard cares if I call it wallpaper or a desktop.... Take it easy there redrocket, I dont want you to crush your mouse (or do you call that a pointing device?)
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I love it when people get all hysterical for using words in ways they don't approve of or like. No offense to you red-rocket.
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Very nice, thank you.
It's my new work desktop picture.
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If i remember correctly Wallpaper is a Windows term whereas Desktop was a Mac term. Well there isn't much different really!!
The blue server version is nicer though.
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Does anyone know if this desktop from the Guide Tour comes with Leopad?, if so would be so kind to…
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I think it's already in Tiger, and if not, they called it one of Leopard's standard desktop pictures, so I would assume yes.
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Yes, it's slightly similar to the stones one in Tiger, but not the same
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It's under Nature. So yes.
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I honestly think they used the grass wallpaper to really show off the translucent menu bar.
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I LOVE OS X's new box and space look. I just wish their GUI would match it over all. Time Machine, and a neat DTP are the only two things that OS X has that looks "Sci-Fi"
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Originally Posted by Kevin
Time Machine, and a neat DTP are the only two things that OS X has that looks "Sci-Fi"
Hmm, as in airbrushed cover art for 80s sci-fi paperbacks... but hey, some good books there
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Originally Posted by treday630
I honestly think they used the grass wallpaper to really show off the translucent menu bar.
You think right.
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well... I will still use the same old desktop picture I was using before....
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