[Request] Suggestions on a Desktop

Well I really enjoy the desktop I currently have, ok it's not aqua but I do use a few aqua based bits in it and I'm still much more of an Aqua fan than I am an Aero fan. The thing is, apart from the Dock background which I'm hopefully replacing with a World of Warcraft based on soon, I'm not sure what needs changing (I appreciate the warcraft dock doesn't fit into the theme, but it's not even loaded most of the time, only for taking screenshots or when I'm doing web design work.

I've been looking for more icons to fit with the realistic looking ones I'm using but I'm still failing to find any. So if anyone has suggestions for icons/toolbars/mods or other useful stuff please post here. Alternatively show me your desktop and say why you prefer yours to mine (I may switch if I finda theme I prefer to Nano).

[Link - Haque.net]

#249852

It's just another one ss thread, in my opinion...

#249858

yeah, wirard you right!!! Mooooodeeeeers!!!!!! Where are you ?!

#249859

OH so were not allowed to ask for suggestions on changes anymore. Fine...

#249862

OH so were not allowed to ask for suggestions on changes anymore. Fine...

Nothing personal, man. Just read down this post and you'll get the point.

Good luck!

#249863

dude, this is getting stupid, if we cant even help memebers here whats the point.

can a mod please clearly define what were doing with all this no desktop stuff.

#249867

No desktop thread in this forum, (gd), wait till sunday. then you ladies can post your nasty desktops.

#249871

i finly one thing odd.

why would u ask other pple what to have on YOUR desktop?

it`s like asking someone on the street to tell u what clothes to wear :slant:

#249892

Beacuse I'm finding it hard to find something to go with the main theme (In particular a set of icons and the toolbar theme (currently GuiPOD)) and there may be someone on here who has seen something that would work better. I have a dodgy connection at best and I've been trying to write and update 2 websites every day and beta test World of Warcraft and try and get a job.

In short I don't have the time to personally search every nook and cranny of the web, but soe people on here may have the answer I seek.

#249896

ok, fair enough

then my suggestion would be default Panther icons, Panther wall and KoL's Tiger VS

#249898

lol, ok I'll take it into consideration, I was using that up until I started making my Ghost icons and Nano fits with them better.

#249899

ok, fair enough

then my suggestion would be default Panther icons, Panther wall and KoL's Tiger VS

^Good opinion, also KoL's Panther is a good visual style since Tiger is a beta and its appearance has changed. As for a toolbar set, I'd suggest Magbi9 and Lou's Panther/Jaguar Y'z Toolbar, or you could install FlyakiteOSX and get everything (cept the panther vs is a mod of KoL's panther)

#249900

again, I'll take it into consideration but I didn't put this in the icons forum because I'd only get aqua replies (I know it's an aqua forum but I'm not even allowed to post my desktop at DevART which is the only other place I discuss desktop mods).

So, please, either let this thread die as Timan said or suggest to me some mods that match my desktop. Honestly, if DevART weren't being so tight-**** about my desktop I'd have asked there.

#249904

Change Winzip icon (just look around), hide all taskbar icons, and (I know this may be hard), but a good abstract/colorful wall can look a lot better over a photo/car wallpaper.

Is that the type of thing you want?

-NC

#249965

I'm still making my filetype icons, will do a winzip one at some point (Thanks for the suggestion to do one), will do on the taskbar icons and will look for an different wallpaper although I'll keep this one around.

#249966

My suggestion? Panther, Panther and Panther...and a healthy does of Panther to finis it all off.

If not that...

-Mod the caption buttons to have the same orange color as the titlebar text.

-Make the toolbar background be a vertical gradient that goes from slightly dark at the top to lighter at the bottom

-Change the text color in the ShellStyle titlbars to match the window titlebars

-Change the removable drive labels to something more creative to match your HD drive labels

-Taskbar buttons should be lighter to match the window toolbar background. The Taskbar and window look like they are from two different themes

-bottom-right corner of the window: darken the lines of the resizing grabber to match the bookmark folder toolbar downward-facing arrows

-make the scrollbar slider a dark pill instead of aqua-y blue

-make the lines of the Start Button the same orange as the window titlebar text

-make the arrow in the address bar the same orange

-hack shell32.dll(?) and change the names from "Files stored on this computer" etc to more interesting name.

-change the removable drive icons to match the HD drives

-make the weather temperature text the same orange

-move the weather icon over to the left, it's obstructing the location text

-remove the Grand Turismo logo from the wallpaper

#250004

Wow Sketching, thanks for the suggestions. I'll need to go through them one at a time as some I don't know how to do (or can't and have tried).

-Mod the caption buttons to have the same orange color as the titlebar text. [it highlights the text orange on mouse over and does a neon effect around the inside edge of the button, I'll try it with orange text normally, see if the neon effect is enough difference]

-Make the toolbar background be a vertical gradient that goes from slightly dark at the top to lighter at the bottom [Good Idea, will try it]

-Change the text color in the ShellStyle titlbars to match the window titlebars [i think the original creator would have done this if he had only made one colour scheme but he also did a pink one and a neon green one, but I don't use those so I'll try this]

-Change the removable drive labels to something more creative to match your HD drive labels [Will do, the hard drives are only label cause i got bored]

-Taskbar buttons should be lighter to match the window toolbar background. The Taskbar and window look like they are from two different themes [Nano's original theme was the same colour as the window toolbar colour, this version is NanoDT and has a taskbar the same colour as the titlebar instead. I'm not quite sure what you mean with this]

-Bottom-right corner of the window: darken the lines of the resizing grabber to match the bookmark folder toolbar downward-facing arrows [Done]

-Make the scrollbar slider a dark pill instead of aqua-y blue [i'll need to work out how to mod SafariFox but yeah, good idea]

-Make the lines of the Start Button the same orange as the window titlebar text [Again, this happens on mouse over]

-Make the arrow in the address bar the same orange [You mean the one on the right of Firefox's Address bar? If so I need to learn to mod SafariFox again]

-Hack shell32.dll(?) and change the names from "Files stored on this computer" etc to more interesting name. [Will look for this and change, thanks for reminding me I have ResHack and ResBuild]

-Change the removable drive icons to match the HD drives [Tried this, Microangelo and IconWorkshop can't change them because they keep updating when a CD is inserted]

-Make the weather temperature text the same orange [Another good suggestion I'm doing now]

-Move the weather icon over to the left, it's obstructing the location text [The location info rotates so this isn't a problem, I just managed to catch it at the beginning]

-Remove the Gran Turismo logo from the wallpaper [it's one of my GT4 Series wallpapers, although I'm not distributing them anymore (thanks to DevART) i'm keeping them as a collection]

#250013