Posted May 6, 200816 yr After a really cold April here (it actually snowed a few nights!), I'm ready for some better weather - and this shot of Heidi Klum really evokes warmer climes to me. The color gradient I filled the rest of the space with is my first effort at using the "blend tool" in the GIMP - I think it came out rather well.
May 6, 200816 yr My desktop running the Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" operating system which is a Linux distribution which uses the GNOME desktop environment. My desktop don't change a lot. It's almost always the same. Poor you, you need a bigger screen. You always have the worst desktop. With low-res pictures that rarely covers the whole screen. Wallpapers: * http://gnome-look.org/index.php?xsortmode=...5c1229e6eef4ef2 * http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/teams/art.g...rg/backgrounds/ (really nice ones)
May 7, 200816 yr Author I refuse to use ready-made wallpaper, I want my desktop to be uniquely mine. The pictures often don't fill the screen because there's a limited selection of shots in a horizontal format available. I must say, you're desktop is a really ugly color, I'd get sick of looking at in a hurry. :wave:
May 7, 200816 yr I want a decent looking desktop, so I always use ready-made wallpapers. I want a nice desktop, but I am really crappy with graphics, and will never be as good as some professional artists, so I never make my own wallpapers, I always uses someones else. Now if its unique or not, I don't really care, as long as it looks good. As for the color, yeah people say "oh, its brown, its ugly", and usually I would agree with that. I don't like the color brown, but I like this wallpaper and the Ubuntu theme, for some reason I like it despite tat its brown which I usually don't like.
May 7, 200816 yr Wow, I am surprised! Another one with Ubuntu! I thought I was the only one. Nice theme! I like it. It looks good!
May 8, 200816 yr Author Nice one. It's too big, though; read the notice at the top of this thread and check the properties of your image. TinyPic doesn't live up to its name.
May 10, 200816 yr heres mine, it's always a lot messier then this, but i cleaned it up some. the wallpaper is of the Chaiten volcano eruption. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/arti...66&ito=1490
May 10, 200816 yr just a little bit of gaming.... http://www.xfire.com/profile/replicant626/ Pidgin, Wireshark, Firefox, VLC, Audacity, VirtualBox, Dev-C++. o.o you got some open source candies there! :wave:
May 13, 200816 yr Green + black is pretty geeky. You know black consoles with green text. Black cases with green LEDs. Matrix raining code, etc.
May 14, 200816 yr That's the word! Couldn't find it yesterday. Well alright then. Sitting on Vista ATM tho', I'm switching OS's pretty often... :wave:
May 19, 200816 yr Now that is a very interesting desktop. Perhaps a bit boring with the solid blue background, but interesting due to the minimalistic approach. I like simplicity.
May 20, 200816 yr Yeah, I agree it's boring, however there's a reason for this. How often do you 'work' on your desktop? The only time I 'used' my desktop was to launch a program from its desktop icon, but for me this was a PITA and looked for a better way to launch my programs without having to continuously go back to the desktop. When you open the screenshot, scroll over all the way to the right and you'll see docked to the edge a series of coloured tabs. These tabs contain all my regularly used programs and is set to 'Always on top' so that no matter what program I currently have open I can access whatever else I need. As for the Samurize widget at the top right, this I only refer to when I boot my system as it shows me at a glance how many processes are running in the background before I actually launch anything else. I use this to stop any unnecessary processes. It also shows me at a glance just how much room I have left on my hard drive, apart from a few other things. Cheers :wave:
