New Desktop Thread

[Asher]

True story: Today in one of my lectures we're listening to student presentations on research projects. One group decided to immitate the "Aqua Dock look-and-feel" for information in their project (tables). So when you moused over the tables in a row at the bottom, it blew up the one you're viewing pretty slickly.

The prof afterwards asked why they went with such an annoying interface that's been soundly discredited in HCI circles. The kid was just "familiar" with it.

[Verto]

Originally posted by Whaleboy
The bloody taskbar keeps popping up everytime someone IM's me on Messenger

Turn it off in messenger then.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Agathon
But then again, how many other people get to take the piss out of Tony Robbins at work?

[Nostromo]

I used Object dock for a while. Its just a pretty piece of crap that replaces the desktop icons. It doesn't work very well. The fancy icons are nice, though.

[Fake Boris]

Asher is being glorious again

[Whaleboy]

Originally posted by nostromo
I used Object dock for a while. Its just a pretty piece of crap that replaces the desktop icons. It doesn't work very well. The fancy icons are nice, though.

Maybe so for desktops, but for laptops it's great because you're reducing mouse movement to open an application.

[Whaleboy]

Why is that bold?

[Nostromo]

Its OTBOT

Maybe So For Desktops, But For Laptops It's Great Because You're Reducing Mouse Movement To Open An Application.

You can always put icons of the programs you use most often on your desktop (but, judging by your desktop, you don't seem to want that), or in the quicklaunch, or pin them in the Start menu. I'm sure you can find better looking icons, too. IMO, Objectdock is just a pretty, buggy, barely functional program launcher. It doesn't replace the taskbar. It may not be pretty, but the Windows XP taskbar does its job very well.

[Saras]

functionality is overrated and is so XX century. Pretty=

[Whaleboy]

Originally posted by nostromo
You can always put icons of the programs you use most often on your desktop (but, judging by your desktop, you don't seem to want that), or in the quicklaunch, or pin them in the Start menu. I'm sure you can find better looking icons, too. IMO, Objectdock is just a pretty, buggy, barely functional program launcher. It doesn't replace the taskbar. It may not be pretty, but the Windows XP taskbar does its job very well.

Putting icons on the desktop looks ugly and cluttered imho. The quicklaunch is far too small and doesn't give launch feedback or tell me what applications are open.

Like I said earlier, you have a point for the desktop, but the requirements of the desktop are completely different to that of a laptop, at least how I use it. I want to minimise use of the trackpad, so selecting an application with the swipe of a finger is pretty much perfect for me. If I had more money I'd have bought a MacBook, but my Core Duo Acer was only £770 .

[Whaleboy]

How about these icons?

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[Agathon]

Powerbook Desktop.

Gene Cernan diriving to work.

[Agathon]

Come on people. You just aren't trying.

Next one on my rotation.

[Kuciwalker]

edit: **** photobucket

[Kuciwalker]