Desktop contest

[NotScias]

http://i.imgur.com/5OXW4.png

With some windows and the docks shown (they hide automatically unless there's a notification):

http://i.imgur.com/I6AsW.png

Archlinux 64-bit
KDE SC 4.7.3
Window decoration and theme: Bespin
Plasma theme: Elegance
Tasks plasmoid: smooth-tasks fork

[NotScias]

* bump *

http://i.imgur.com/SzaeI.jpg

Archlinux 64-bit
KDE SC 4.8 Beta 2
Window decoration+theme: Oxygen (with custom colors made from Obsidian sheme)
Plasma theme: Androbit
Wallpaper: http://good-wallpapers.com/abstract/2942
Console: Yakuake
Player: Clementine 1.0 rc (with Nyanalizer cat Visualizer :D)

Panels auto-hide (so I have full screen space) and rise only when there's a notification.

[Regnum_Online]

Here's mine:

http://i.imgur.com/RRcL9.jpg

[OpperVaagheid]

mine =] ubuntu 11.10

[Anpu]

http://www.dodaj.rs/f/T/5U/4gZwYUbS/snapshot11.jpg

http://www.dodaj.rs/f/1g/U1/3gxCyJMi/snapshot10.jpg


openSUSE 12.1
Desktop theme: Volatile
Window decoration: Chrome
Wallpaper: Guild Wars 2 Warrior Charr

[Aelonderiel]

NSFW (well, kinda)

Got that? K :D

Here's the Link:

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/5188/desktopeou.png

OS: Linux Mint Debian 64-bit
Desktop: XFCE 4.8 + Compiz WM
Theme: Aurora Midnight
Dock: Cairo-dock
Wallpaper: Lucy Pinder (you know you liked it :D)

[Freduardo]

http://i.imgur.com/NO9Y7.jpg


http://i.imgur.com/QzySS.jpg

[Regnum_Online]

http://i.imgur.com/PdwrL.jpg

Just changed it to this. Don't even try to tell me this desktop isn't the best in the thread. :P

[Archonaut]

http://i.imgur.com/PdwrL.jpg

Just changed it to this. Don't even try to tell me this desktop isn't the best in the thread. :P

Bleghh, Windows Vista ;p

[Mattdoesrock]

http://i.imgur.com/PdwrL.jpg

Just changed it to this. Don't even try to tell me this desktop isn't the best in the thread. :P

/thread gg

[Ashnurazg]

http://img832.imageshack.us/img832/1473/screenshotsd.png
OS: Ubuntu 11.10 x64
Desktop: Unity (based on Gnome 3)
Window Manager: compiz + emerald
Theme: Hope GTK3 (I think it's a Version from 10/10/2011)
Window Decoration: custom emerald theme ;)
Icons: hydroxygen ( some icons missing :( )

Running applications: conky and gnome-terminal

PS: KDE is slow and easy to misconfigure. :D
PPS: Network address is inside my local network.
PPPS: It's an ocelot - a homage to Ubuntu 11.10 code name: "Oneiric Ocelot".

UPDATE: I have the same wallpaper at Win7, too.

[Mattdoesrock]

Any multi-monitor love? :sifflote:

http://i.imgur.com/M9caq.jpg

Hurr durr Windoze.

Anyone interested in multiple monitors should definitely check out RainMeter and Ultramon.

[ListusMinimusHTTB]

OS: Windows XP Professional SP3 v2002 Pentium IV 3 Ghz
Skin: BricoPack Vista Ultimate 2.1 (Black)
Dock: Rocketdock
Wallpaper: Stargate SG-1 Mirko Stödter 2005

http://i.imgur.com/ng2in.jpg

[NotScias]

Any multi-monitor love? :sifflote:

Of course ! I would never trade dual monitor setup even for the biggest screen on earth xD

http://i.imgur.com/m52Of.jpg

Arch 64-bit
DE: KDE SC 4.8
Kwin & Qt theme: Oxygen-transparent with this color scheme (http://kde-look.org/content/show.php/Dark+Obsidian?content=148616)
Plasma & Icons theme: Caledonia
Font: Roboto
Wallpaper: this (http://onlyhdwallpapers.com/space/abstract-space-planets-purple-desktop-1600x1200-wallpaper-16689) (with blue tint)

Colibri for notifications and Yakuake as terminal.

PS: KDE is slow and easy to misconfigure.

Depends on which distro tho.
Ubuntu is well known to have slow and bugged KDE packages, thanks to their awesome packagers... For me, KDE >= 4.3 has always been faster (in term of startup and loading at least) than GNOME 2.x (didn't test GNOME 3 yet).

Well, matter of taste anyways :P

[TheUnbiased]

Of course ! I would never trade dual monitor setup even for the biggest screen on earth xD

Ubuntu is well known to have slow and bugged KDE packages, thanks to their awesome packagers... For me, KDE >= 4.3 has always been faster (in term of startup and loading at least) than GNOME 2.x (didn't test GNOME 3 yet).

Well, matter of taste anyways :P

I traded it for two separate computers, which is way better :P

Also, as a middle finger to the second part of your post, here's my Mint 12 KDE desktop that I decided two days ago to run as my main desktop from now on:

http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/6624/snapshot1hz.png

Very near to stock KDE, pretty much only modified the widgets to my liking. Lancelot launcher instead of standard, removed some useless (for me) widgets etc. To be honest, I'm pretty happy to run stock anyway, most of it is the way I want it already. And yes, it does feel faster than GNOME in general.

OS: Linux Mint 12 "Lisa" KDE 64-bit
Desktop: KDE 4.7.4
Kernel: 3.0.0-16 generic
Theme: Air desktop theme with oxygen-cold color scheme, otherwise oxygen all the way :D
Wallpaper: Linux Mint 12 KDE default wallpaper

And as a special with my love to you, the current Amarok playlist (which you can't really see but w/e, you can see the currently playing track) :D

[NotScias]

Also, as a middle finger to the second part of your post, here's my Mint 12 KDE desktop that I decided two days ago to run as my main desktop from now on

Mint != Ubuntu.
Well, in fact, Mint is a polished Ubuntu and they fix a lot of flaws of it (and I guess also the poor KDE integration)...
However, I must agree the KDE integration in Ubuntu has gotten way better than before, but it's still way more bugged and slow than what you can find in OpenSuSE or "true" vanilla distros like Arch or Gentoo.

[TheUnbiased]

Mint != Ubuntu.
Well, in fact, Mint is a polished Ubuntu and they fix a lot of flaws of it (and I guess also the poor KDE integration)...
However, I must agree the KDE integration in Ubuntu has gotten way better than before, but it's still way more bugged and slow than what you can find in OpenSuSE or "true" vanilla distros like Arch or Gentoo.

All true - but there are a few Mint-introduced bugs as well, so it's not all perfect. To be honest I wouldn't be using a *buntu, but I need automatic hardware (wireless) detection so my choice is pretty limited. Sabayon had its quirks, Archbang had even more... And here we are :D

[Anpu]

http://www.dodaj.rs/f/40/111/1pe9OEkU/desktop07.png

Distributor ID: SUSE LINUX
Description: openSUSE 12.1 (x86_64)
Release: 12.1
Codename: Asparagus
KDE 4.8.3

[Freduardo]

http://i.imgur.com/razU3.jpg

Laptop. Mint 13. Everything just works oob, at a reasonable pace.
First time in a long while that I'm not using Arch or Debian (because I can't be arsed to put it all together myself, keep up with updates, etcetera).

[Seher]

http://uppix.net/6/8/1/f09d7423e651eb23e2acbb604dd5f.jpg

Arch 64-bit, with pretty much just Openbox. And conky. And shitty icons. And of course cairo dock, but I don’t even like it that much (too slow), just haven’t found anything similarly non-pita ish.

Openbox and e17 are the only WMs that actually do what I want in terms of window behaviour. I guess I could do the same with awesome, but I cannot into awesome, lol. Or rather, I don’t want to. XML ftw, LUA can suck my ***
(note, the dock actually is in the background. I like windows using 100% screen space)

[Cuchulainn]

I'm on a Debian Wheezy based system with JWM as window manager. The distro is called antiX, I really can recommend it for computers with <2 GB RAM. Advised minimum is actually only 128 MB RAM.

http://i.imgur.com/PcBK7Wc.jpg?1

[Cuchulainn]

yeah :bounce:

I downloaded it from there: http://abstract.desktopnexus.com/wallpaper/1350283/

[Parasitic]

I like simple wallpapers and FF so this is a happy medium, Dual screen windows 7

[Ferente]

http://postimage.org/image/eg5e8z1np/

http://postimage.org/image/tg8musmdx/

KDE rulez!

[Eyfura]

Nice Ferente!
http://i.imgur.com/arfIyQ0.jpg
I have not customized much visible stuff, instead I changed from default to focus follow cursor, save places of some windows etc.
2x 24" screens, dunno what to put on desktop so it is almost empty - I keep irssi window open all the time because lots of space on desktop

[Ferente]

Nice Ferente!
http://i.imgur.com/arfIyQ0.jpg
I have not customized much visible stuff, instead I changed from default to focus follow cursor, save places of some windows etc.
2x 24" screens, dunno what to put on desktop so it is almost empty - I keep irssi window open all the time because lots of space on desktop

You all dual-monitor guys make me want buy a second monitor, and a second vga :P

Very nice Eyfu!

[Nightchilll]

long time, no see
:)

http://i.imgur.com/Qewzqay.png

[badassmaster]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/01/Bsod.svg