My take on the current Wiget Battle..

or Why I'm paying for OD for 3 years and i'm just recently using it.

Published on November 10, 2004 By kyper In DesktopX

Let me start off with why I barley use DesktopX. It's not that it's a memory hog, it's not that it's too hard to use.
It's due to I NEVER SEE MY FREAKING DESKTOP. I'm on my computer as much as I can. When I'm
using it. I normaly play full screen games or Develop, surf.. etc.. Normaly I have a bunch of windows open
since it's a multi taking system. While the apps are open I have them maximised. I barley see my desktop.
But the reason I used Object Desktop was for ObjectBar. Application etc launcher from the side of the screen.
I always had access to it.

Now I have 5 monitors hooked up to a 2.8 computer at work. I have DesktopX, Windows Blinds, ObjectDock
Plus, and ObjectBar running. Runs GREAT. and with 5 monitors I can see my desktop again, so I got some note
proggie widget and the dogmaX cal running. What I like to do with desktopX since I'm not a graphics guru like
most people, is create "Text" objects and use them for Todo list's and Performance Monitoring of the servers.
VERY handy stuff , Since it's productive and not eye candy.

Well to each thier own as many have said. While I like eye candy as the next person, I take function over beauty.

Comments

Frogboy

on Nov 11, 2004

DesktopX has overlays. It's not designed to rely on you seeing your desktop.

You create your desktop and treat it like an overlay. Then hit a hot key and pop up the widgets to top.

Also, try out the show hide. What I do here is that I hide all my widgets completely and then hit F10 to bring them up to top and hit F10 to hide them. I'll have to take a screenshot sometime of my "news" computer. It's just full of RSS feeds.

kyper

on Nov 12, 2004

Problem was "F9" and "F10" are recent ( well with in the last major versions I think). I been watching DesktopX
since before it had scripting, and every major version to come out.. I play with it think it was cool and forget about it.

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