Show us ya desktop!

[l s1l3nt l]

its good and all but does your pc get "true" colour? i have a del laptop i havent done an awful lot to but its awesome colour to it being one of the top of the range dell xps with a RGB LED screen, honestly the differences even between my 24" full hd led monitor this shit on it.

as for whats on my desktop at the moment, (sorry cant get the pic down enough to put up..... lol

[accidental]

Dell's RGB LED displays are very good, I recall they've got the widest colour gamut of consumer displays. But you can only get "true" colour if you've calibrated the display properly with hardware.

It won't be long until all displays are LED but at the moment it's still premium technology that isn't worth the extra price tag for the average consumer.

[accidental]

On the subject of wallpapers and The Avengers, Louie Mantia just posted his S.H.I.E.L.D. wallpaper: http://mantia.me/wallpaper/shield/

All this talk of wallpapers has compelled me to changes. Andy's Room has served me well for 2012 so far. I've switched to this crazy awesome Star Wars one:

[FaceAche]

I really like quite a few of those Mantia wallpapers. Some very elegant designs. Can see why he was hired by Apple to design icons.

[accidental]

Yeah I like that much of them are references to geek culture but they're not "geeky" or "testosterone-filled" like much fan art tends to be.

[FaceAche]

I like your Star Wars wallpaper too, by the way. Very classy.

Here's my latest desktop - Mantia is awesome

[FaceAche]

My new latest desktop;

[accidental]

Reminds me of a Worms level but all slick and 3D-renderified.

[emetic]

Oh, that's pretty slick Did you make that yourself, Faceache?

My current ... wow it's cool how it thumbnails like that.

[FaceAche]

It's come together okay; a Linux Ubuntu 11.10 desktop, with a Cairo-Dock (the dock at the top in the middle), and the other bits and pieces being provided by a program called Screenlets.

There's a thread on a Linux forum where people post their desktops, and i've managed to get a few really cool wallpapers from it, one of which was that last one i posted.

I upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04 a couple of days ago, and i'm learning more about Ubuntu as i use and tweak it. For example, i now have the calendar and weather info intregrated into the top menu bar - makes for a cleaner looking desktop.

My latest desktop is attached. You can see the Unity Launcher to the left, with a custom icon theme - i've set this launcher-bar to auto-hide, but showed it for the screenshot.

Ubuntu has 4 different desktops, or workspaces that you can switch between on-the-fly, and you can have a different wallpaper for each. I found this cool program that lets you do this via a cool cube type effect - see the second attachment. You can also select the wallpaper behind the cube, and move it so you can see the top and bottom of the cube, and like these gears working away inside it

I'm turning into a Linux Fanboy

What do you reckon?

[FaceAche]

Anyone got any changes to how their machines look?

Here's my latest - Linux Lubuntu 12.04 on a laptop;

[Gazza420]

Rockin' a custom BL2 user interface/icon pack combo at the mo, similar to this:



By Deviant Art user: mentalmars (he has a huge variety of sick BL2 wallpapers).
Wallpaper changes between Maya, Sal and Claptrap!

[FaceAche]

That's very cool Gazza, i like it. Sooo looking forward to BL2.

[Vivasanti]

Originally Posted by Gazza420

Rockin' a custom BL2 user interface/icon pack combo at the mo, similar to this:



By Deviant Art user: mentalmars (he has a huge variety of sick BL2 wallpapers).
Wallpaper changes between Maya, Sal and Claptrap!

I like it, alot

[Gazza420]

My own version:



^Bandit LMG looks badass!

Originally Posted by FaceAche

That's very cool Gazza, i like it. Sooo looking forward to BL2.

I'm hanging out for BL2 like it was crack and I was Charlie Sheen after a rehab stint!
Don't think I've ever wanted a game to hurry up and release this bad before.