How tidy is my desktop? This tidy.
In repsonse to Sionide’s post, this is how tidy my desktop is at the moment. Obviously quite clear - I only use it to save files temporarily, such as e-mail attachments that will ultimately be sent back to the sender and then filed away in the appropriate folder in /home, screenshots or downloaded stuff (such as the mail-trends folder, which I’ll blog about soon).
The one thing that sometimes annoys me is the placement of mounted media - I like to have drives and CDs in the bottom right-hand corner, but can’t work out how to set this as a default area…any clues let me know!
Just the way I like it
That’s the way, uhuh, uhuh, I like it…two seconds to find my old .theme folder backed up on external hard drive (from before the reinstall), half a second to copy it all over, two seconds to change theme in System>Preferences>Appearance. How to get your desktop looking great in under five seconds. Sorted. Black-white icons, black window borders, darkilouche controls and a lovely nasa wallpaper.
I think it’s quite a good combination, certainly better than the default. I also have my panels trimmed to 23 pixels instead of 24 (it makes a difference! honest!), and the mouse pointers changed to whiteglass. I love customisation :)
Choice overload…
I just can’t seem to get a desktop I like at the moment. I’ve tried different icon sets, different themes, different wallpapers, combinations of all three, and still can’t get a final one settled on. I’ve trawled gnome-look.org for the ‘right’ look for me. I’ve tried dark themes, picking colours myself and even (heavens no!) the default Ubuntu theme.
I don’t want my computer to look like XP, Vista or Mac OSX, which means half the themes on gnome-look are unsuitable. Nor do I want the default Ubuntu look, being bored of it after about two seconds. At the moment I have the default look + different wallpaper + transparent panels, but the window decorations don’t fit with this.
It was all easier on Windows. There were three themes, as far as I remember, only two of which anyone ever used (the silvery one and the blue one; there was also the ‘classic’ style). Now, with appearance not limited to tweaking around in the registry (which I was never going to do), I am spoilt for choice.
How I yearn for the days when choices were made for me.
