Kaelri
Wing (Desktop 14)
I hope you'll find this one a little more original. It follows the same principles as the LiS style, but I tried to ratchet up the eye candy without sacrificing productivity.
The obvious centrepiece is the Samurize config, which I started ages ago after being inspired by this. It's very sci-fi, of course, but in the best sense: everything has a purpose. Those arcs are actually displaying the time and date, my CPU, RAM, battery and network usage, the space on my laptop, external drive and iPod, and iTunes' song progress.
That black strip on the left has a purpose, too. Care to guess?
You can see a few other Rainmeter widgets scattered throughout, including the fake border on the bottom. The track info is a CD Art Display skin stripped down to the bare necessities.
Finally, the icons on the right are an experimental auto-hidden Rocketdock layout. I'm still in the process of trying to make Rocketdock do something useful, so for the moment, consider it a visual placeholder.
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Theme:
- CleanGlass VS. Requires patched uxtheme.dll - patcher here.
- Wallpaper: not publicly available, I'm afraid. I made it using Children of the Night by Digital Blasphemy, and a render that has since disappeared from the Internet.
Startups:
- Autohotkey.
- Launchy.
- Yod'm 3D 1.4.
- D-Color.
- Start Killer.
Programs usually running:
- Rainmeter. Skin: Enigma, with inverted colors on Border.
- CD Art Display. I'm still on the lookout for an iTunes plugin for Rainmeter. For the moment, I've taken a CAD skin and made it blend right in with the rest of the Rainmeter layout. It wasn't hard, but I'd be happy to walk you through it.
- Rocketdock. Icons: "ecqlipse 2".
Questions welcome!
Wing (Desktop 14)
I hope you'll find this one a little more original. It follows the same principles as the LiS style, but I tried to ratchet up the eye candy without sacrificing productivity.
The obvious centrepiece is the Samurize config, which I started ages ago after being inspired by this. It's very sci-fi, of course, but in the best sense: everything has a purpose. Those arcs are actually displaying the time and date, my CPU, RAM, battery and network usage, the space on my laptop, external drive and iPod, and iTunes' song progress.
That black strip on the left has a purpose, too. Care to guess?
You can see a few other Rainmeter widgets scattered throughout, including the fake border on the bottom. The track info is a CD Art Display skin stripped down to the bare necessities.
Finally, the icons on the right are an experimental auto-hidden Rocketdock layout. I'm still in the process of trying to make Rocketdock do something useful, so for the moment, consider it a visual placeholder.
- - - - - - -
Theme:
- CleanGlass VS. Requires patched uxtheme.dll - patcher here.
- Wallpaper: not publicly available, I'm afraid. I made it using Children of the Night by Digital Blasphemy, and a render that has since disappeared from the Internet.
Startups:
- Autohotkey.
- Launchy.
- Yod'm 3D 1.4.
- D-Color.
- Start Killer.
Programs usually running:
- Rainmeter. Skin: Enigma, with inverted colors on Border.
- CD Art Display. I'm still on the lookout for an iTunes plugin for Rainmeter. For the moment, I've taken a CAD skin and made it blend right in with the rest of the Rainmeter layout. It wasn't hard, but I'd be happy to walk you through it.
- Rocketdock. Icons: "ecqlipse 2".
Questions welcome!