What do you think of these skinning set-up's
Wednesday, February 4, 2009 by Leo the Lion | Discussion: Skinning
I must admit I am a bit of a 'neat freak' and I like minimilistic set-ups. I came across these two which I thought worth sharing with you.
http://lifehacker.com/5124643/enigma-desktop-customization-update-now-available
http://lifehacker.com/5145421/windows-7-gets-customized
Pretty cool!
Reply #2 Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:37 AM
I like the 'looks' too, John. As a matter of interest what would you find as 'unusable'?
Reply #3 Thursday, February 5, 2009 9:55 AM
pretty sharp looking desktops, the first one (enigma) being my pick of the 2
it's mostly a Samurize config.......
I've been using Samurize for a couple years now and I love it.......it's very easy to skin FOR YOURSELF........It's a bit of a pain to produce skins for other people tho....
Many of the meters are computer specific and a "user" would need to have a familiarity with samurize to get it to work for them.
Rainmeter is much the same, without the built in editor that Samurize has............I've only attempted a few basic config's with rainmeter.
Reply #4 Thursday, February 5, 2009 10:09 AM
Well, I dont see a taskbar (Manditory for me) I dont see desktop icons, (also manditory for me) and the desktop is cluttered up with things I have no use for (shown constantly) or things I can find at the click of a mouse.
My desktop is my workspace, I dont need weather, news, hard drive space, etc showing 24\7.
Great for a screeny, useless as a work environment.
Reply #5 Thursday, February 5, 2009 11:12 PM
I tried the Samurize prog a while back and enjoyed experimenting with it too, Lantec.
I see, John. Fair enough
Reply #6 Friday, February 6, 2009 9:33 AM
both are quite nice, for my taste way too much cluttered up with sys and other info. Not really minimal... but I dig the clock of enigma
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Reply #1 Wednesday, February 4, 2009 10:28 PM
Really nice to look at Leo.. would be totally useless from a usabilty standpoint for me tho.
