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Change on my desktop....

I was looking at Roy Osherove's Desktops Contest, and I have but one thing to say: I want Tony Pino's desktop. I don't care what I have to do to get it. KILLER.

OK, so I took Chris Sells' advice and put my start menu on the top of my desktop instead of the bottom. I'm not sure if I like the autohiding or not... still gonna play with it. I'll tell you what tho... it's A LOT less annoying if you put it on the top and enable autohiding. Many times I'll accidentally trigger the top menu when I'm trying to do something alog the bottom of the screen, and it pisses me off. Aren't too many reasons for your mouse to be playing around in the titlebar of a fullscreen window tho.

I may never get used to going to the top of the screen instead of the bottom... made that mistake about 50 times in the last 10 minutes since I did it.

Posted: Jul 11 2003, 05:24 PM by interscape | with 4 comment(s)

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HumanCompiler said:

Sure there are lots of reasons to be playing around up there...it's called, closing the form! ;) I've tried it up at the top and just could never get used to it! :-\
# July 11, 2003 10:50 PM

Frans Bouma said:

Why do you need a desktop that looks good? I've vs.net maximized all day on 1600x1200 so a fancy graphic is not visible anyway. Or are you staring at the desktop a lot? ;D :) :P

Startmenu at the top is for people who work with macs a lot (or amigas ;D) I never use the menu much, but I have a lot of icons on the quicklaunch. Because of the 1600x1200, I don't need autohiding which is great. If I can advise something it would be that everyone who does serious things with his computer should buy a 19" or 20" monitor and run 1600x1200 at least.
# July 12, 2003 6:28 AM

Robert McLaws said:

Not everyone can afford a 20" monitor...

Fitt's Law of UI Design says that the Mac UI is the best UI, because it's more intuitive, and it takes considerably less effort to navigate thru. If you combined elements of both navigation systems you'd have a real winner.
# July 12, 2003 6:38 AM

Doug Thews said:

I thought you might be interested in knowing I posted some cool feature updates on my LocalDeskop project at: http://www.ddconsult.com/blogs/illuminati/archives/000085.html
# July 19, 2003 11:13 PM