Desktop/Icon thread

[self biased]

at least you've got a good abreviation. "k."

it sure beats the hell out of 'sb' that people seem to use with me. it'd just one letter shy of "sbd." you know.. silent but deadly.

[Potassium]

At least you're not SOB ...

[self biased]

i'd hate to be a sister of battle too. GW's not doing plastics for them which is a travesty.

[Potassium]

Well, crap, there goes my mission in life.

[DRoseDARs]

Originally posted by Flip McWho
Nice hint. Very subtle

Hey DRoseDARs what type of airplane is in that desktop of yours? Never seen that one before, kinda weird looking.

It's a Boeing concept: BWB (Blended Wing Body). While Airbus in Europe is touting a double-decker aircraft, Boeing was toying with the bwb design for a while. Unfortunately, I believe they've put the project on their back burner. It's unlikely you'll see these in a passenger-plane context. They've been described as "flying movie theaters" since window space is very limited for 800 or so passengers. If such planes are built, they'd probably be cargo planes. I think Boeing has moved on to a more publically-acceptable double-decker design of their own.

This particular image comes from the November 2003 issue of Popular Science magazine, pgs 44-45.



(Flip: Ok, maybe not THAT much shorter... ).

[Flip McWho]

yeah. Thanks for clearing it up.

[DRoseDARs]

Well, "It's a picture of a plane that doesn't exist...but it's really cool!" didn't really explain the image to my satisfaction.

[Paul Hanson]

Speaking of docks, does anyone know how to prevent them from emerging from the sides of the screen when I'm playing a game? Every time I want to have a go on C&C Generals or Deus Ex, I have to quit YzDock (the one you thought had been sued out of existence, foolish Mac users! Bwahahahaha).

[Agathon]

Look how many people have docks....

[Q Classic]

this is windows.
1280×1024×32b, in this image scaled down to 800×600.

the wallpaper in the background changes on an hourly basis.

i'll reboot into my gentoo install later and post what my fluxbox desktop looks like.

[Chilean President™]

Originally posted by Spiffor

You got taste, showing a car from Stuttgart

Danke
I that car... my neighbor have one of them... I hate him

[Q Classic]

the windows taskbar autohides.

here is fluxbox wm atop xfree86 in gentoo linux. no desktops are used (no K, no Gnome, usw.)

that image is of botany pond, in hull court at the uni.

[Agathon]

Ahhh....

[Agathon]

Whoops, wrong one....

I actually have some good ones of anti Hitler marches from the 30s.

Anyway..

[Inverse Icarus]

i just realized i was using "mobydock", not "objectdock". does objectdock intefere with civ? if you have civ (or any full windowed game for that matter) and you scroll to where the dock is, does it go OVER the game?