I putz around with images and save the screenshots for references. I'm having so much fun that I end up changing the screenshot a couple of times a week. Today's:
(Image is one of my own, from http://flickr.com/photos/gm2net/2122536564/ - it's 10 UV keychain torches shining at a bright green post-it note, which florescences brightly)
Also, note the two apps running - they're quite often running.
Screenshot no 223 - very nice - and pretty ingenous putting the Weather applet to fit into the light-beam area.
fiferboy, would love to see your applet packaged and ready to install - good to make the screen cleaner and remove the clock applet on the desktop and instead have it on the task bar.
I use osso-statusbar-cpu to display the time in the tray, launch a few apps and take screenies, and I do prefer the smaller font, but it's still a nice applet, fiferboy.
Thanks to fiferboy, I now have lots of reclaimed space on my home page... Although now my status bar is overflowing, even with the advanced brightness control. XMMS in windowshade mode is great for listening to Internet radio, and it stays out of the way, since XMMS insists on always being on top, no matter what app is running. Other times, when I'm just idling at the home screen and I want to see what is playing, I make XMMS double-sized for easy reading.
Onyros, if you use osso-statusbar-cpu to display the time, then why do you also run the clock applet on your home screen?
Naa, sometimes, I don't know why, the time display lags a bit in osso-statusbar-cpu and I compare it with the desktop applet, to make sure it's right (a click on the applet also works). Also, I don't just use it to display time, but to launch a few apps.
Even so, I don't really see the desktop much, I always have something open when I'm using the IT, so only when the desktop's clean is the clock applet visible.
BTW, you can minimize XMMS if you use xmmsctrl to restore it (and that's one of the reasons I use osso-statusbar-cpu).
Not wanting to OT much, I remember I could dim the lighting a bit more in OS2007 (or was it a placebo effect?), can you dim it a little more with the advanced backlight control applet?
I always use the lighting at the minimum (I'm kinda like a mogwai, hate bright lights), and it saves a lot of battery that way. A little more wouldn't hurt, and it would save even more battery.
