Since it's year end, I thought I'd post one more "fun piece" for everybody. After Thom posted an article on his customized KDE desktop, I thought it might be interesting to compare desktop screengrabs and see what other OSNews'ers desktops look like. Are you cluttered or clean? Are you minialist? What's your wallpaper? Upload a picture to an online service or your own website and show off your desktop. I'll start: Adam's desktop (312kb).
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I think most people who use Windows, OS X, KDE, Gnome and XFCE don't customize as much as those using the lighter WM's.
Using Fluxbox on my media pc I think I'd sooner customize that one than the KDE I use on my laptop. I haven't looked into it, but I think it might be easier to do so as well.
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Heh, you know I do really like to see a fancy desktop but only when they belong to other people! 
when it comes to my own I can never be arsed to bother.
I guess that is why i posted mine. I was really hoping to see some tricked out desktops.
Some of the wallpapers are fabulous but everything else is kind of blah. heh.
oh well. just a good waste of time on a saturday morning.
Member since:2005-12-31
I think every geek passes 'desktop madness' at least once in their life 
I mostly modified kde to the extreem, tuning it here and there , day in day out, making improvements and then suddenly, the next day, start out a complete different theme. My poor friends had to endure these user-hostile desktops each time 
But these days I gotten lazy and only want 4 things:
1) Quick acces to multimedia (musi, complete movies)
2) Quickly developing my small projects
3) No cluttering, I need to have overview (the bigger the screen the better
4) My daily dosis of internet news & comics
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Is no one actually inspired to customize their desktops?
Here is a screenshot from my OpenBSD desktop from a couple of years ago.
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=338614780&size=l
OpenBSD
FVWM 2.5
Every time you minimize a program it takes a screenshot and makes a small icon that you can click to recover the program. Probably with XGL these days you can get them to be live icons. Translucent menus (if you need them) because everything is key driven (ctrl+n for mozilla, etc)
Anyway, just figured to step this up a notch.