That looks terrible. What are the criteria for desktop of the week? Whoever uses the most stupid haxies and widgets in the most amount of RAM possible wins?

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OnyX is (at least one of) the application you are thinking of. I couldn't live without it, both for customization and for maintenance tasks such as cache cleaning.


I hadn't thought to put the iStatPro widget on the desktop but that's a great idea!

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I agree with Joe. That isn't the prettiest desktop. Like Billifer said, Onyx will let you move the dock topside. Can't say that looks good at all especially with the arrows under open apps being, well, disconnected.

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Along with Onyx as others said, Tiger Tamer will also allow you to pin the dock up under the menu bar.

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Besides that I don't see anything special about that desktop, haven't you considered the fact that the dock beneath the menu-bar on top of the screen might be an image (deceptively) placed on the desktop pic itself (part of it)?

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i agree with joe and derek. especially after last week's abomination [for those playing at home, it was the one with the vista wallpaper and the mac pro style grill dock background.

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Tinkertool also allows putting the dock up top, though it also allows for putting it at leading and trailing edges of whatever side you use, which is nice.


Check it out :)

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Now I'm disappointed.

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This was, like, a normal desktop. Nothing new, nothing special... and placing the dock right where the menybar makes id harder to hit, according to design laws. :)

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While I don't think it's a horrible desktop there isn't really anything innovative with it at all. Except for one thing: How did he get dividers in his Dock?

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sucks
there are so many great desktops at flckr which makes this so dissapointing

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@ 10 - dock dividers can be found here...

http://www.artofadambetts.com/weblog/?p=35

an X-Ray TiBook can also be found here for those interested...

http://birdhouse.org/blog/2003/07/23/tigutz/

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This desktop is horrible. Does that mean I have to violate some well-thought-of GUI element and this will increase my chances of becoming TUAW dektop of the week? *scratches head*

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I just want to ask some of the users about the fascination with having stats posted on the desktop. I think I will do it if my job is to monitor my machine. Understandably, it's a geek thing but it only distracts you from doing other important stuff.

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I only use Activity Monitor in the dock to track what the computer is doing. I just don't want to leave some errant process running unnoticed for too long, that makes the computer get hot. For heat and memory considerations, I don't run dashboard, and I don't think iStat is a program that should be constantly running.

I think that "disconnected" app-running triangle is nicer "disconnected", they are so small that they are a little harder to see against a black screen border.

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i agree with Joe. it looks terrible

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@ Bang:

You do realize right, that some of us over the age of 20 find you much more embarrassing to the "Mac community" than TUAW ever will be, right?

Here's an idea: Head over to the *worse* Mac site on the web, macdailynews.com, where Apple can do no wrong, where all criticism of any thing Apple creates is "thoughtfully rebutted"...usually via a distortion of facts and where guys like you can circle jerk each other all the live long day.

The absolute *worse* thing for the "Mac community" is yet-another-mindless "Mac Fanatic" that is incapable of honest discussion and debate.

That would be...you :)

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why on earth would someone use google desktop instead of quicksilver?

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I agree with you steve...the funny thing is I took a closer look and Quicksilver is running in the dock...why you would have Google desktop as well is beyond me.

You can use macPilot to both pin the dock up top and put widgets into developer mode...

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