Post your Alternative OS Inspired Desktops

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Carbon

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Interesting... so many of you guys wish you had OS X boxes it seems. How often do you see an OS X user come along and slap a Windows look onto their system? How about now:

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:: click here for the full screen fx ::

That's my PowerBook G4 running Jaguar 10.2 w/ the ChosenOS theme ported by Swizcore as I develop my newest OS X theme. As you can see at the bottom rather than the Dock, I've created a custom Windows taskbar for all my application switching and launching needs, etc. Also visible are some Konfabulator widgets, my custom clear digital clock widget, the battery widget, and the pulsing blue power-pill cpu monitoring widget. At the left-bottom corner is AquaMon dishing out the live stats.

For those wondering where all the thick OS X drop shadows are at, I've killed the window drop shadows w/ WindowShadeX and I've killed the menubar drop shadow w/ DeskShade. This gives the system the flat/sleek minimalistic look that ChosenOS was originally conceived in for Windows.

ChosenOS just looks better in X ... imo

Later

//Carbon

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mr_daemon

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Hey Limited, the chick in a plugsuit on your Be wallpaper reminds of Yui Ichiko (the would-be Rei Ayanami) from the early sketches of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Well, I look again, and definitively that's an Evangelion plugsuit.

(I remember the Yui thing since I own the Der Mond NGE artbook. Oh well. Maybe i'll shut up before looking like a total otaku ;P)

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Elliott

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Hey Limited, the chick in a plugsuit on your Be wallpaper reminds of Yui Ichiko (the would-be Rei Ayanami) from the early sketches of Neon Genesis Evangelion.

Well, I look again, and definitively that's an Evangelion plugsuit.

(I remember the Yui thing since I own the Der Mond NGE artbook. Oh well. Maybe i'll shut up before looking like a total otaku ;P)

Being an otaku is a good thing. I'm proud to be one. :happy: (BTW, definitly like Rei Ayanami better than the earlier sketches of her would-be character :whistle: ).

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Lexcyn

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Thanks :D

By the way... here's my OSX inspired desktop:

Theme: Milk by KoL

Background: N-Age by Unknown

Icon Set (not visable): SnowE

Dock: Y'z Dock with Slate icon set & XP iCandy by FOOOD

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