Desktop Thread

[adciv]

DEATH!

[rkitect]

Hey, it is a desktop for the colloquy client... it seemed somehow appropriate here. It's a work in progress, but I thought it was fun. The timestamp and event messages are still a bit difficult to read. I need to work on the css for that.



To download:
http://gibsonhh.info/RLCIRC.colloquystyle.zip
Unzip this to /Applications/Colloquy/Resources/Styles/
restart Colloquy and find it in the styles drop down in the appearances tab. Enjoy!

[bagheadinc]

Comic Sans? Really? You should be ashamed of yourself.

[rkitect]

It's only temporary till I find the font that Greg is using in the comic.

Besides, you should be ashamed for expecting people to post non shameful things on RLF...

[cosmic_hippo]

[Mae Dean]

I just redesigned my wallpaper to make it stretch across both screens (and I found some new reference shots of the U.S.S. Discovery panels that helped me along) so I figured I'd post it here:



Photobucket scales the full-size wallpaper down too much, but you get the gist of it.

[Deacon]

Very nice. Makes me want that new 24" Dell UltraSharp I've had my eye on...

[FireAza]

Are any of those objects usable, or are they just images, Greg?

[Mae Dean]

Currently just images. I had switched away from using Litestep as a shell replacement when I went dual-monitor, just because rewriting the theme I was using at the time to work with multi-mon support was a pain in the ass. Now, though, I might just work on getting it working again. It used to be a pretty sweet interface.

It also makes me wish there was some way to embed flash files in a desktop - those 6 computer screens on the left could be animated with some stuff I found here: http://www.halproject.com/hal/

Offhand - anyone know a way to do image-based buttons that can launch programs WITHOUT having to switch to Litestep or some other shell replacement? Preferably something that allows for animated buttons.

[bagheadinc]

If you're using XP (which is looks like you are), you could always design the desktop as an HTML file and use Active Desktop (although I think you're forced to have a white bar at the top of the screen, can't remember though). You'll need an Active Desktop replacement if you want to do it with a Vista machine since they ditched Active Desktop for the Sidebar.

[Mae Dean]

ree-hee-heeeeeallly......

Hm. This warrants further investigation.

[Mae Dean]

So, looking at that, my main concern would be that I want to create buttons that allow me to launch programs - that's what I did with Litestep, anyway. If my desktop is a big-ass webpage, that doesn't seem like it'd be able to do what i need it to, sadly.

[The Cid]

I miss Litestep.

...Or should I say, I miss having a program I could automatically blame for pretty much anything that went unexpectedly wrong on my computer.

Edit: Ooh, and having Winamp controls right there on my taskbar if I wanted was nice, too.

[bagheadinc]

So, looking at that, my main concern would be that I want to create buttons that allow me to launch programs - that's what I did with Litestep, anyway.

Sure you can, use Flash for your buttons.

Code: Select all

on (release) {
fscommand ("exec", "c:\path\to\program.exe");
}

[Deacon]

Edit: Ooh, and having Winamp controls right there on my taskbar if I wanted was nice, too.

Dude...that's been a basic feature of Winamp for...forever, I guess. A long time, anyway. No need for Lightstep for that.