Post Your Desktops the "Willie will give you bananas if you do eet" Edition

Remus said:
I always keep the bar at the bottom. I've used it that way since my first PC, and to be honest I don't see any benefit to put it elsewhere. All those aplications that you have on the taskbar can just as easily be accessed from the start menu. Oh noes 1 extra click away!11
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Exactly this.
 
Remus said:
I always keep the bar at the bottom. I've used it that way since my first PC, and to be honest I don't see any benefit to put it elsewhere.
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I wouldn't have used vert taskbar on anything but Windows 7. In the older windows, the window buttons in the taskbar were named and such. But with Windows 7's new button/grouping style, it uses much less space on the taskbar. Since I'm running 1920x1200, that's one long taskbar along the bottom, that I'll never fill. Putting the taskbar on the side already saves screen real-estate. In addition, vertical resolution is more important than horizontal (for a widescreen monitor). It means that much less scrolling on the web/anything else.

Remus said:
All those aplications that you have on the taskbar can just as easily be accessed from the start menu. Oh noes 1 extra click away!11
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What are you even talking about? You must not be familiar with Windows 7... Those are quicklaunch icons just like in any other windows version, wherever your taskbar is. Of course technically what you're seeing are "pinned" programs, which is W7's clever idea of combining the old system of quick launch taskbar buttons with window buttons.
 
Vegeta897 said:
I wouldn't have used vert taskbar on anything but Windows 7. In the older windows, the window buttons in the taskbar were named and such. But with Windows 7's new button/grouping style, it uses much less space on the taskbar. Since I'm running 1920x1200, that's one long taskbar along the bottom, that I'll never fill. Putting the taskbar on the side already saves screen real-estate. In addition, vertical resolution is more important than horizontal (for a widescreen monitor). It means that much less scrolling on the web/anything else..
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All those things amount to minor improvements as far as I'm concerned. Certainly not enough to get me change it's position. However thanks for explaining.


Vegeta897 said:
What are you even talking about? You must not be familiar with Windows 7... Those are quicklaunch icons just like in any other windows version, wherever your taskbar is. Of course technically what you're seeing are "pinned" programs, which is W7's clever idea of combining the old system of quick launch taskbar buttons with window buttons.
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I'm talking about the pinned programs. For example look at Dinnesch's screenshot. A lot of pinned programs, that can just as easily be accesed from the star menu. I guess the idea is, I have this big empty bar thing here, might as wel fill it with stuff.
 
Remus said:
I'm talking about the pinned programs. For example look at Dinnesch's screenshot. A lot of pinned programs, that can just as easily be accesed from the star menu. I guess the idea is, I have this big empty bar thing here, might as wel fill it with stuff.
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But what does that have to do with it being vertical? Or even with the app he posted? He has even less space than he would if it was horizontal. And the app he talked about involves programs that are already open, so it wouldn't even matter if they were pinned or not.

What you are saying just seems so silly and pedantic. If he wants slightly easier access to those programs, what is your problem with it?
 
Vegeta897 said:
what is your problem with it?
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The same issue I have with a ton of icons on the desktop, it looks cluttered, messy, and it's just unnecessary. If you really HAVE TO have all those things to be one click away, then fine I guess. /shrug
 
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It's all about speed of use. If I had to eliminate an extra click when designing an interface, I would. Having an easy to use interface is what keeps people from coming back to the program/machine. I auto-hide my taskbar so I don't have to deal with the extra space being wasted. Pinned programs galore as well, my start menu holds my current games I play, desktop items are the ones I use constantly.
 
Oh, I didn't know you meant pinned to the start menu. Still, theres a lot less space there for pinned apps, and its just as much as a cluster****, if not more-so than pinning to the taskbar. I don't see any reason to do it that way.
 
I like the time and date setups around the wallpaper. Is this something you can only do in Windows 7?
 
I tried using that almost a year ago...followed all the instructions, changed the XML files in ways that seemed right, but could never so much as change the zip code for the weather program...
 
Yea how did you get the skin Maestro is using? All I can do is select what I want to show up on the desktop, the weather and time/date.

Edit: The only themes I seem to have are Enigma and Gnometer, neither one look particularly good.

Edit 2: Not so bad.
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Finish gay anime art in photoshop > select all layers > duplicate and scale up > lower transparency and move to corner > ART IMPROVED SO COOL
 
Krynn72 said:
Finish gay anime art in photoshop > select all layers > duplicate and scale up > lower transparency and move to corner > ART IMPROVED SO COOL
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Annoying way to fill space, almost more than lens flares.
 
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I love the new WoW zones, they're so.....flamboyant and awesome looking
 
Joined W7 master race with my new rig.

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Edited it to get rid of the ugly stuff.

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Vegetas making fun of me now on steam, so I made him a new version so maybe he'll shut up.


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