Yup...its awesome. You see, what you do is post a picture of your desktop, and then the person below you rates it on whatever scale, and posts their desktop. The person below THEM does the same, and etc.



KDE 3.4.......MD2006

Err, kind of similar to this, isn't it?!?

http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?showtopic=35356&hl=

yes accept you don't rate peoples desktops in that thread some people may not like the pressure of having their desktops rated! i mean, what if they don't like mine? what if it's just not up to snuff? what would I doooo????

anywho. assuming the scale is 1-10, I give michaelc's a 4 it's just...so bland...but then I don't like any KDE themes

click for larger - 1280px by 800px


ps - i added a subtitle so that it makes the difference between this and SoyD more obvious

I am not a big fan of KDE themes myself (although I do like to work with KDE because of its funtionality). I give it 6.5



ps: I get the following error, why it's just a screenshot?:

The total filespace required to upload all the attached files is greater than your per post or global limit. Please reduce the number of attachments or the size of the attachments.

OK, well I rate you about a 7. Like the wallpaper, not too keen on mac's meself

Love your screen though, soooo widescreen and lots going on there. Mine is simple, as I've just done a clean install with Mandriva 2007.

Ian 9+ (great wallpaper image), tyme 9+ (nice touch with the cheat sheets), michaelc 5 (I didn't care for the green theme).

You are only supposed to rate the person above you (errmm ignoring ians double post, I guess....) and post your own too

I just deleted my double post

You deleted the wrong one the other one doesnt make sense cause mine is not a mac

I know, kinda screwed that one up

OK, guys and gals, mine should be before ffi's, and then it all works

pfft...rate as many as you want! who cares? The wallpaper is a picture I took at Chickies Rock. You can find it and others in this album. Those pictures are actually up there twice because I screwed up the upload and now I can't figure out how to delete photo's because of the gallery theme I use - doesn't let me get to the admin screen!

Ooops. Look like I've joined the screwup list. No way I'm posting my desktop cause it would get a ZERO!

tyme's a darn good photographer, he's no slacker with the camera. I've been to Lancaster County, PA and it is a beautiful area. I love the autums in that part of the country.

All users have a restriction how much they can have uploaded at one time. Chances are the image put you over your limit (check in My Controls for how much you have uploaded). If you weren't near your limit, then it may have been a fluke I dunno about that. I just started doing it on any level of seriousness

Ah, okay I didnt know about that, I was nearing the limit....

Wow...I made a thread that was PINNED! Amazing....

As for my theme, the average rating seems to be about a 5-6...well....stfu.



mC

It changed!

0 especially because of the wallpaper, it reminds me of the october revolution (in Russia) and communism.

Here's mine

4, I never did like the default XP theme, first thing I do on an XP machine is turn of themes....

WinXP? Definitely gonna be a 0...haha

I don't particularly like it either, but never could be bothered to change it. I give myself +1 for the wallpaper though

Below (click the link) is my Linux desktop, I hope it'll be rated a little better...

http://mandrivausers.org/index.php?act=Att...ost&id=2708

+1 for Argentina

very nice pics, tyme! But where are the carefully stitched-together panoramas?

What icon set are you using, darkelve?

i actually do have a panorama, but i didn't stitch it together myself...used a tool that came with my canon. This one is from chickies rock (some stiching issues on the left side), and this is from the Civil War Museum in Harrisburg. I need to work on my panaroma skills

It's the Crystal Diamon Icons



Ooooh... so you recognize the place?

Both links gives 404 to me tyme.

You told it before

Oh... okay!

But then again the places around the Salar de Uyuni, San Pedro de Atacama and northern Argentina have v
been the most amazing places (scenery wise, ermmm not "nature" wise ) I have ever been too, which might include your desktop wallpaper......

somehow they lost their extensions...they work now

Northern Argentina... we got there from San Pedro de Atacama, crossing the border Chile/Argentina. Also the Cataratas (waterfalls) were wonderful. And Missiones, we stayed in a hacienda there, and you could see only sky, clouds and grass for miles and miles! As to my favorite city there, it was Salta, very nice&cosy place, at least the center of it... didn't have the nerve to go to far away from the center. Ah, the memories... makes we want to go back there

Aha, that's the fella I meant - from STA_0189 to STG_0195.
I also have a Canon, just a little Ixus v2, and that came with a panorama tool. There's only two things I don't like about it - firstly that it doesn't run on linux, and secondly that it's limited to horizontal strip panos like this: So when you line them up, it always ends up long and skinny.

I like to also be able to do different types of panos like a row of portraits or a grid, like this:

i don't think that's the programs fault, i think it's what your camera can do. my camera can do both of what you suggested and a few others i think.

No, it's definitely the program's fault! I've used the same camera to make other kinds of panoramas, and then just used other software (hugin) to do the stitching. I also since bought another camera, which hasn't got any panorama mode at all but I can still use hugin to do all sorts of panoramas with it.

There's nothing wrong with the pics you took to cause that mismatch - this is how it looks out of hugin:

Click to view attachment
Although there's some blur on them, more on some than on others - I'm guessing this is camera wobble rather than focus problems because the focus should be fixed between shots.

One advantage of having a special panorama mode (apart from the help with lining up) is the file naming - STA, STB etc - makes it easy to separate out the panoramas for stitching. And the ability to set a different default picture size for the panoramas - so it's easy to have a big setting for single stills and a smaller setting for the pano parts. I did look at the Canon S2 when I was buying my camera, and saw a couple of extra modes, including a 2x2 square, but couldn't see a 4x2 or a 1x4 or similar. But then as I said as long as you can line them up by eye then you can use hugin to tile more or less anything together.

One thing I discovered with mine - it doesn't work too well making a panorama with zoom. The zoom introduces more vignetting which gives dark bands when you try to stitch them.

Is it my imagination or is everything on the Civil War one (apart from the yellow pole thing mid-left) leaning over to the left?

I may have to try hugin then. The program I'm using came with my camera (and runs on my Mac)

I don't think I've used zoom for the pictures I took...maybe I did.

A lot of the buildings appear to be, but as you go further to the right in the image things appear more straight. This could be due to me taking the images at a bad angle or the stitching process. I was not using a tripod for either of them (although I wish I had been).


WARNING: This thread appears to have been hijacked, oops!

Quick, somebody call a mod

No, I don't think you did, it just came to my mind when thinking about the panoramas, thought the tip might be useful.

Sorry for the hijiacking!

Back on topic or you're all :ban:

Ok boss.

Below (see links, thumbnail) post are screenshots of my new desktop. I'm quite proud of it.
Please rate it.

- SuSe Linux 10.1 (the one with the messed up package/update manager)
- KDE 3.5.1 "level a", witch backports of KDE applications
- Transparency for taskbar and menus
- Icons: Crystal Diamond 2.0 - Classical
- Window Decoration: Powder
- Background: self-made screenshot of "Valle De La Luna" (valley of the moon) in Chile.


Additional screenshots:
- http://www.ducaet.be/images/persoonlijk/desktop_november.jpg (with the MacOSX style topbar enabled)
- http://www.ducaet.be/images/persoonlijk/de...p_november2.jpg ('clean', without any icons or open windows)
- http://www.ducaet.be/images/persoonlijk/de...p_november3.jpg (Komposé in action)
- http://www.ducaet.be/images/persoonlijk/de...p_november4.jpg (2 windows open: Konqueror with really big icons and Amarok player window)
- http://www.ducaet.be/images/persoonlijk/de...p_november5.jpg (hmmm... seems to be the same as 4, reallly :| )
- http://www.ducaet.be/images/persoonlijk/de...p_november6.jpg (show a transparent menu)

meh...5 (-2 for it being KDE )

Time for a linux screeny

Arch Linux
Beryl (the compiz fork that was compiz-quinnstorm)
Regular Xorg, using beta nvidia drivers with GLX_Texture_From_Pixmap (no need for XGL!)
gaim...x-chat...the usuals.

Five? Now I feel insulted...

Time to resurrect this thread.
Please rate.
Applications running Audacious with Goom plugin and the terminal. In the Notifier (left to right) Gmail notify, Beryl manager, volume applet.

8/10

made up the captions in case i ever get tempted, loool.

http://img227.imageshack.us/img227/3032/dtop0202feb07vq8.jpg

you'd probably be better off installing it, then realising it sucks, then puttin linux back

4/10. The girl needs to eat more imho.

Not too familiart with KDe just started KDE on spring launch used to use Gnome... But yeah theres my KDE desktop which I love atm. Mandy 2007 Spring KDE

Nice wallpaper. Where have you found it?

Your desktop gets 8/10 from me. Very relaxing.