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Ok, I seldomy post here but I am kind of proud with the result on this one. I started working on this while redoing my Best Free Resource Meter article:
http://www.techsupportalert.com/best...urce-meter.htm My interest was a tool called "Rainmeter" that I wanted to give a more thorough test. Well, what can I say, I got stuck with this great program and spent hours on DeviantArt checking out skins for it. This is a Windows 7 desktop running Rainmeter with the Enigma, Arcs and HDDstatus skins. At the bottom is the free version of Stardock's ObjectDock. For this design I converted all icons I used there into grayscale images. Here are the links to the tools and skins I used:
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George, not to derail the thread, but I'm curious why you choose to use Stardock ObjectDock Free with Windows 7? I pin the programs that I most use already to my taskbar. What leads you to use Stardock instead of just pinning programs to the Windows 7 taskbar?
P.S. I like the look, but I'm curious if it gives you anymore useability or functionality over what you can already do in Windows 7?
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Windows 8 in my testing lab, I mean, everyday PC with a few mods
Why Windows has an option to open DVD-R but not to close? I miss that from Mac or Linux Why never incorporated tabbed browsing to explorer? I don't really care Thanks for letting me customize my own way ![]() ![]()
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Examples of Korora Linux showing my two installed desktop environments. The base install was KDE to which I then added the Gnome desktop components followed by Cinnamon Window Manager (must be done in this order). Both items straight from the Korora package manager with just a couple of clicks. Log out and then choose either KDE Plasma Workspace or Cinnamon from the session menu to change. This is Cinnamon.
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the Windows 7 taskbar is simply not customizable enough. Potsitioning, shape, size, separators, fonts and colors, all those things cannot be done with it. Yesterday for example I was looking for a way to grayscale the taskbar, to no success. But you can launch your apps from it that is true. I use the taskbar to show what's running, not for launching. I placed it at the top of my desktop (it's autohiding in the screenshot). So I have my launcher at the bottom and my whats-running-taskbar at the top. You are absolutely right that such designs do not nexessarily award you with a higher usability. But that's not the goal either. It's really about the looks and the design and putting something together that catches your own eye. I do it just for the moment when the machine boots and greets me with that look ![]() I surely had fun playing with it. That's another factor.
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Korora 17 KDE desktop. The panel icons are from a Rocket Dock collection called Black Beauty. The clock and date are standard Superkaramba themes but the monitor is a custom build using a Rainmeter skin for the background image. Folder icons are from the Zorin set.
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This is my "metro" desktop.
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