Yep. The Desktop Magpie analogy is really applicable. The whole GUI fetish kind of reminds me of those religious books and cards where each day you open up a little cut-out window/door to see what's behind it. You go "ooohh pretty!". 'Course the real issue is trying to find the right balance between form and functionality. That's half the fun of it. That said, I love my interactive desktop.
I used to dev on Unix variants way, way back and thought it was the greatest thing. Thought CDE/Motif kicked Windows 3.1's butt graphically. Then I ended up doing dev on VMS. E-roz is right, VMS may have been boring but technically it was real sweet I finally ended dev'ing on Windows NT/2000 servers. And this has to be my favorite and I've never wanted to go back. I totally missed the whole OS/2 and Macintosh things. I tried BEOS 4.5. Interesting, nice tech in
I take it you mean an icon that shows up in IE's favorites menu rather than the standard IE page icon? Like DeviantArt's icon?
Actually I got it in my Hotmail/MSN web email account. I just deleted it.
And as the virus passes through Rinkwork's Dialectizer webpage: Hi! Right on! How is you? I drow ya' dis stash in o'da' to gots yo' advice See ya' later. Ah be baaad... Danks
"...And there was much rejoicing"
Thanks for the link! Noted and bookmarked! When lurking on the Stardock discussion newgroups I've always enjoyed reading Steve's commentary. His website and essays are even more impressive.
Semi-off topic and speaking of a Tolkien-based DXTheme, I wondered what one would like. I just came across a Flash-based Tolkien web site that's really stylish. One wonders how something like this could stylistically translate to a desktop theme. Check it out: http://myprecious.co.uk/
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I have the same problem. I'd like to use ObjectBar but at this point it seems more like it should be called XPBar So I'm patiently awaiting for my WinCustomize CD with the additional themes...
Very nice Tim! I have to say, you create the most elegant, stylish skins around.
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