Desktop Demographics

[Beestie]

Originally posted by jinx

Busted. This does not match the one you posted in the "show us your desk" thread.

[jinx]

D'oh!
Jim made and put that other one on there. It wasn't "me".

[perth]

Originally posted by glatt
I notice a lot of pictures that look busy.. The icons are hard to see against the background.

Yeah, I like a background with a large area of little variation, for example the sky in my shot. I normally line my icons up against the sky, but was doing some desktop cleanup and didn't bother disabling auto-arrange when I was done. The only reason desktop icons are even enabled on my system is because I cannot retrain myself regarding the location of "My Computer". The desktop generally gets treated as a dumping ground for files I'm going to use temporarily and then get rid of.

[Clodfobble]

Jag, the big two are Peak and BarbaBatch. I regularly deal with 50,000+ files at a time, and BarbaBatch is the only reasonable batch processor capable of handling them. And Peak made a new version for OSX, but it's painfully buggy and actually REMOVED several of my favorite features as compared to the previous version.

I have an OSX partition too, you can see the conveniently placed "Startup Disk" icon on the top left so I can switch back and forth whenever I want.

[jaguar]

Some I'm guessing you do pro audio work, mind if I ask what?

[Clodfobble]

Videogame sound. The games that require the massive numbers of files are the sports games, because they have these complex commentary logic trees so the right announcer call can be made depending on what's happening on the field.

So, TS, what's your theory about desktops and do Cellarites uphold or debunk it?

[Elspode]

Busy, yet easy to read...this is my work desktop.

[lumberjim]

interesting that there are at least 2 iotd's shown. beeestie, was yours one too?

[Elspode]

Uh...whoops? Sorry about the size, folks. Small file size does not equate to small scale on the screen. Should have redimensioned it before uploading.

[Clodfobble]

Mine changes every couple of weeks, and there are a liberal number of IOTDs thrown in the mix.

[Beestie]

Originally posted by lumberjim
interesting that there are at least 2 iotd's shown. beeestie, was yours one too?

Possibly. I have a whole bunch of pics that I rotate as wallpaper so if I see something interesting, I just toss it in the folder. I think that particular pic came from the Hubble site. My favorite site to grab wallpaper from is 3Dtotal. Next in the que is "diner" from Jason Lee

[jaguar]

MacDesktops Has a huge collection of very cool desktops, updated weekly, they have all sorts of cool stuff and generally excellent taste *ahem* .
I actually forgot I submitted that about 7 months ago now, then out of the blue I got an email from them, kind of embarassed of it now but cool at the same time.

Where's that solaris shot beestie?

[Undertoad]

I just want to say that jinx's desktop is a total UI abomination and needs to be shot.

Also, side-docked toolbars are the devil.

That is all

[perth]

Side-docked toolbars own.

Actually, I think I would ideally like to have my Start button at the top-left, but have my applications remain along the bottom. I think it's just a matter of how I think and work. The start button works better for me at the top-left. One could also make the argument that there is more real estate horizontally than vertically, thus a side-docked toolbar on either side is less intrusive. But when you're running at anything above 1024x768 it's kind of a moot point.

[lumberjim]

Originally posted by Undertoad
I just want to say that jinx's desktop is a total UI abomination and needs to be shot.

Also, side-docked toolbars are the devil.

That is all

yeah. i like the unaltered shot better shelb. that's a picture i took from underneath one of our cherry trees, tiled in psp 8.0 with the seamless tile feature.