Post your desktop

__ChAnDLeR__ · June 03, 2008, 06:34:17 AM

eh ya right it is a bit much.. but to have a flash animation desktop of that xp-tan .. then i will then be content

as seen here on this youtube.. i gotta have it lmao!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8E5touZzDEU

Added after 8 hours 47 minutes:

below is SS of this forum's gem i found here in some thread i forgot.. lil XP-Tan desktop assistant thingy like ahem 'thing' near bottom right...so cute! thanx to whoever had this and reposted the 'lost' exe in that whatever thread i found it on here..

my yahoo widgets

XP-Tan Shutdown menu... thanx! Nejin!

the XP-Tan blushes when you cancel the shtdown or restart..lmao! if i could just figure how to screenshot (SS) my bootscreen found out about here and got it from wincustomize! to windows XP! It's a no-brainer to see i have a obsession with Windows XP-Tan OS... all this is installed on a PC designed and originally installed with Windows 2000 Professional ..LoL

Bella · June 03, 2008, 10:46:49 AM

@ Smokey...you finally took the plunge, eh? It took me like, 20 minutes of playing around on my friend's machine to see through that shiny plastic veneer.

@ Chandler...Wowza! If I was into customization, I'd be be racing to get the programs you used to make those effects! I really like the first picture you posted, it's very Beryl or Compiz Fusion-like.

CaptBrenden · June 03, 2008, 01:39:51 PM

*takes chandler aside*

Perhaps you should be sitting down for this...

I hate to break it to you... but that isnt a program. Its a one shot video/animation someone made. We have looked high and low and across the interwebz already.

Your not the first pilgrim to come here looking for it, either. When that video got posted our membership count here skyrocketed, with every single one saying the same thing "I saw this video on youtube and Im looking for that program!" And we told each of them the same thing "It does not exist"

If you look around I belive there is a thread where people are discussing making one, you could look into that. But Im afraid that your search for that one ends here.

__ChAnDLeR__ · June 03, 2008, 04:36:54 PM

eh, before my membership was made here, i understood that clearly.. careful study of these videos showed the same desktop and their icon positionings.. [ what was clever was..say it is how thru video trickery clip overlapping clip trick if that how it was done..] how that person postioned his icons over the ones that are static on the video clip of that xp-yan, so when he clicked on the icon that looked like a folder(?) or shortcut to a browser(?) but if a clip over a clip the window shouldn't dominate over the flash image/video like the one i posted above..who ever did that, gave props to this forum[ well to the general OS-tan Community] in the title credits..
however it is done it WAS done..so it exist in some form or another..
as an amature coder of yahoo exploits, i can sometime see the exclusiveness to not 'share' the trick to readily..thus giving themselves an aura of 31337!..
but knowing the basics.. and to those who may know much more..
to see that done it brings a challenge to reproduce it...
in my search to bring it a reality to my pc brought me to the point i am now with my desktop, the 3d desktop, my backgrounds, widgets, docklets..etc.. all in one month..so pardon me for being optimistic, if their is a will there is a way

Smokey · June 03, 2008, 09:34:05 PM

@Bella, well it took only the installer to see that it was going to be bad, and it is...
But my gaaaaaames! My GAAAAAMES!!!! They run soooow nice now, and uTorrent, it's so fast now...
But then again she's (Vista) really, REALLY paranoid... I have to tell her, every install i make or every new program i run, that it won't kill her...
Then again... The GAMES!!!

AAAAARGHHHHH!!!!
I don't wanna like Vista!!!...

NejinOniwa · June 04, 2008, 12:27:45 AM

Don't worry.

You won't.

__ChAnDLeR__ · June 04, 2008, 06:52:02 AM

the pic Bella is referring to is Shock4way3D desktop allowing you to switch from 4 different desktops for the single monitor person like myself you can google it.. they have other tools as well all i believe for desktop management..however it isnt freeware.. but is IS FREE at my website for VIP members [ vip? 10 USD donators] along with other apps for customizing your desktop

Smokey · June 04, 2008, 11:02:01 AM

Well, i already do like Vista...

But the problem is Vista is kinda like 2 things in one...

On one side you have a gaming platform, wich is (or will be) able to run games really nicely, and therefore is basically just an evolution of XP...

On the other hand however, they (M$) smothered Vista with unneccesary (and unnecesarily demanding) eyecandy and trinkets, slowing down (or crippling) the system...

So, basically if they make a sober, stripped version of Vista, like XP, but with better gaming api's (like an evolution of XP), then it will be a good (for M$'s doing) windows...

So, yeah, I love it and hate it...

I'm afraid to show myself at the MEWXPZLFUDAWV club...

NejinOniwa · June 04, 2008, 01:29:45 PM

Well, Chandler, you are aware that there already exist freeware/opensource alternatives to multiple desktop managements, right?
YODM3D, for example.

C-Chan · June 04, 2008, 04:05:35 PM

Quotehowever it is done it WAS done..so it exist in some form or another..
as an amature coder of yahoo exploits, i can sometime see the exclusiveness to not 'share' the trick to readily..thus giving themselves an aura of 31337!..
but knowing the basics.. and to those who may know much more..
to see that done it brings a challenge to reproduce it...
in my search to bring it a reality to my pc brought me to the point i am now with my desktop, the 3d desktop, my backgrounds, widgets, docklets..etc.. all in one month..so pardon me for being optimistic, if their is a will there is a way

Well I can certainly appreciate the can-do spirit, especially since you feel optimistic to recreate something which clearly would take quite a bit of time and effort to reproduce. As you say, when there's a will, there's a way.

It's been a while since I've seen that video, but if memory serves (and your description is accurate), the XP-tan startup affect can be reproduced given the following "ingredients":

All the elements can then be brought together beautifully, either through Flash, Premiere, Cinelerra or iMovie, depending on what you have on hand, and then published as an AVI file.

So impossible it is clearly not -- the only real challenge is in the matter of time-consumption, which is generally the largest impediment to such a project. At least that's been the greatest impediment to all of MY projects....

In any event, that's enough about that.

Smokester, I'll reply to you about that at the Club,....

For now, here's a little tribute to the Post Your Desktop thread (remember that?

), which is also a tribute to something fairly recent....

@Nejin

Oh, and thanks for pointing that out.

Smokey · June 04, 2008, 08:26:32 PM

Mon dieu, est francais! Parlez-vous francais, monsieur?

Seriously, that was the last language i'd expect here... (well dutch is the last language i'd expect here, but french is close

)

__ChAnDLeR__ · June 05, 2008, 08:19:45 AM

hey Nejin! you know where i can get a gif image of the xp-tan's shut down thingy?

Kami-Tux · June 05, 2008, 08:50:28 AM

@C-Chan: You are on Freenode on regular basis?

NejinOniwa · June 05, 2008, 10:52:41 AM

Chandler:
I don't think I do. Firstly I'm not really sure what you're referring to, so please enlighten me. THEN I'll see what I can do.

I am a quite fine internet crawler, though...I might stumble upon whatever you need.

Smokey · June 05, 2008, 12:53:29 PM

BTW, aren't avvi's confined to 150x150 pixels...?

So how did you get that whopping great pic as your avvi, Chandler?