Desktop.. Everyone has one of these!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

@Duke87:  I am not so much concerned about security with Thunderbird, as the organizational features that allow mail to be categorized, flagged and compressed.  I guess I use e-mail a lot more than you do since I am doing some remote volunteer work with some of the software I use.

[Cockatoo 2,257]

Here's mine. Don't ask what the picture is, I don’t even know! I just thought it looked cool. Bit sick of desktop icons so I got a dock instead.

And here's my other desktop. Guess the OS.

[Duke87 1,070]

Took the effort to rename "Network Neighborhood" to "My Network Places", eh?

Also, minus points for anachronism by having Firefox (4.0 beta no less!) on there. You should get Netscape.

[Cockatoo 2,257]

Took the effort to rename "Network Neighborhood" to "My Network Places", eh?quote>

Nope, I don't know how, but whatever I downloaded re-named it and put it right there on the desktop for me!

As you probably guessed, that's XP modded to look like 95 (felt a bit nostalgic), but it's not actually on a separate machine. It's Windows XP Mode running under 7 - that's why the Beta FF is on there, don’t want beta programs on my main desktop. You're right though, having the shortcut there totally kills the illusion!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Your main desktop looks like an out of focus shot of a raveled, multicolor anchor cable.  W7, I presume.  I am like you and hate desk top clutter, so I use the panel that contains my operating menu for most frequent stuff, even games.  Linux is a different kettle of fish, and you can have a panel on each border if you wish.  I use a few desktop icons because I am lazy.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

As promised: "The Dogs at the Top of the Stairs".

Duffy and Geordie in the Wasaga Beach bungalow coming down to the finished basement.

[Alejandro24 575]

My gnome-desktop under Linux Mint 10.

[nathanthemayor 1,263]

(I know vince is going to like this )

Cuyahoga Falls, I was there last summer and decided to use the stunning pic as my desktop...

[Alejandro24 575]

Again my desktop. Gnome desktop under Linux Mint 10, still. Added more screenlets (Nowplaying, stickers, Lost Countdown [To Panamerican Games], new sensors for disks and swap, and a RSS feed for Simtropolis Twitter), and chaged wallpaper to one of Megaherz. I love my desktop.

[Mercury96 3]

[hittwice99 619]

 My desktop with some useful gadgets.

[Dexter 41]

Here's mine, nothing special really since I reformatted my laptop:

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

My March 2011 pet of the month. This is Andrew (Andy): Caniscaeli Fantasy Impromptu (His daddy jumped the fence).

[timmie 988]

Empty, that's how I like it. And you may notice that it's cold. Too cold.

And yes, I use Vista, the horror!

  Edited March 2, 2011 by timmie  

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Almost like a 19th century porcelain. Sea of Japan Cup race?

[timmie 988]

It's a 'color woodcut' by the Japanese artist Hokusai, from the 19th century indeed . In the background you can see Mount Fuji, and the work is most often called The Great Wave (off Kanagawa).

  Edited March 3, 2011 by timmie  

[Shadow Assassin 336]

My current desktop.

[cammo2003 20]

Here's my current one:

Theme: ClearScreen Sharp; Rainmeter for the desktop, using the Omnimo 3.1 style.

May be best to right-click: view image or similar on the above. Gets cut off by the ST theme if you just click on it normally.

  Edited March 7, 2011 by cammo2003  

[_marsh_ 1,118]

My current desktop.

[jj88 24]

Cool desktops marsh and Alejandaro

Gives me some inspiration, as I have ubuntu as a dual boot on my Windows PC.... hmmm...

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Cool desktops marsh and Alejandaro

Gives me some inspiration, as I have ubuntu as a dual boot on my Windows PC.... hmmm...

Ubuntu has lots of desktops in the can if you want one. Try cosmos. It changes when you login.

[jj88 24]

Thanks, I'll have a look into cosmos then

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Continuing the monthly "My Pets" feature, here is my new desktop for April, 2011.

Two cats: Nemo (Black DSH) and Scarlett O'Hairy (Pure Bred Persian Red Tabby). Enjoy.

Nemo (male) was euthanized when we decided we could not treat his Diabetes Mellitisl

Scarlett (female) was given up for adoption shortly after my wife passed away.

This photo was taken in our office in 2004.

[Odainsaker 2,136]

It's cute that "Link to ShoppingList" seemingly points to Nemo's ear! Like many a cat owner, we must purchase according to the cats' tastes.

And timmie has a Hokusai print..."ukiyo-e" are such fascinating prints from another world, when feudal Japan was closed in upon itself into its own insular golden age. "Meisho" are depictions of famous places, and often whole series were devoted to views of Mt. Fuji or scenes along the bustling trunk road between Kyoto and Edo. Combined with scroll maps, and it is like 17th century Tokugawa tourist guides. Europeans would soon be amazed by these prints used as mere wrapping paper for the bulk consumer porcelain exported to the West.

Meanwhile, I've added a few famous places to my rotating desktop backgrounds over the past months which kinda fit the theme:

Tower gate of the Fushimi Inari-taisha in Kyoto.

Gion quarter in Kyoto. Why can't our urban alleyways be so picturesque.

Wakayama Castle in Wakayama City in Wakayama Prefecture. As Fozzie Bear would say, "Wakka Wakka Wakka!"

Scenic hills outside Kyoto.

Phoenix Hall of the Byodo-in replica on Oahu.

Atrium of the Tokyo International Forum in Tokyo.

Oh, Brave New World, that has such people in it...

  Edited April 1, 2011 by Odainsaker  

[Kazinsal 0]

Linked for size (1.4 MB): http://upload.wikime...2/Solar_sys.jpg

I'm not going to post a screenshot of my actual desktop, because it's so cluttered you wouldn't be able to see any coherent picture in the background. It's that bad.

  Edited April 3, 2011 by Kazinsal  

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Linked for size (1.4 MB): http://upload.wikime...2/Solar_sys.jpg

I'm not going to post a screenshot of my actual desktop, because it's so cluttered you wouldn't be able to see any coherent picture in the background. It's that bad.

Nice picture. I assume its your desktop background. If you are having desktop clutter problems, there are all kinds of alternatives, like stashing common stuff in the task bar, lesser used stuff in folders, etc.

You can see from my desktop (back up a bit) that I make use of my top panel for most things, and only have a few hot things on the desktop.

Sometimes we let ideas of convenience mess up our environment.

  Edited April 3, 2011 by A Nonny Moose  

[Mithrik 562]

My desktop, which is full of games.

It also has is, like you may notice, Windows XP, never will there be a better OS.

EDIT: It's also in spanish, because, that's the language of my country.

Agree?

  Edited April 21, 2011 by Mithrik  

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

It also has is, like you may notice, Windows XP, never will there be a better OS.

Agree?

Disagree.

If you want a real operating system, switch (or dual boot) a Linux distribution. I am currently on UBUNTU 10.10 x86_64, which is small, fast, simple and can run windows .exe's with either wine (for older stuff) or mono for stuff created with Visual Studio.NET.

Linux is the Swiss army knife of operating systems and it can open many cans. You do have to be slightly more technically aware with it to really get things done, but then you pretty much have to be with XP as well. The best thing about most Linux distributions is that they are free, and community-supported by a world-wide group.

I am also testing the new (release at the end of this month) version 11.04. It is looking good, but not ready for people in general yet. It seems to be having a kernel of the week syndrome.

EDIT: And one more thing about Linux, it includes a full set of high-security features which are optional, but can be invoked to give you a very safe multiple user operating environment, complete with ACL's to keep snoopers out. It can be an administrative drag, but once you get it working, your system (server) is pretty safe. On the server version, you can run the apache server, which is pretty well known and pretty good if you don't fool with it too much, eh Dirk?

  Edited April 21, 2011 by A Nonny Moose  

[hym 358]

My desktop, which is full of games.

It also has is, like you may notice, Windows XP, never will there be a better OS.

EDIT: It's also in spanish, because, that's the language of my country.

Agree?

You might want to look at Windows 7. There are some places where XP is better than 7, but 7 also has places where it is better than XP. Security is definitely one of those places.

[Wakita_OK_Boy 0]

My new computer!

http://img809.imageshack.us/i/backgroundqi.jpg/