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Steampunk desktop themes: your screenshots

Started by Stefan Freestate, August 17, 2007, 02:41:47 PM

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Whats your desktop like?

Mac
83 (55.3%)
Linux
67 (44.7%)

Total Members Voted: 147

Stefan Freestate

MrFats and other members have made great strides in developing steampunk desktop themes for Windows. If you have what you regard as a steampunk dektop, regardless of OS, post a screenshot! I'm dashed curious.

Here's what I've cobbled together for my Gnome dual-head rig:
<a href="http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/steven.freestate/Randomness/photo?authkey=AQ14xjz239k#5099679224773006050"><img src="http://lh6.google.co.uk/steven.freestate/RsWzPFUI0uI/AAAAAAAAAMM/Ww2UxJhzlTw/s800/spgtheme.jpg" /></a>
Relinquo vos liberos.

Professor Lidenbrock

"Through the ruins of a city stalked the ruin of a man."

The Infernal Mr Adams

This my regular everyday desktop with my capital winamp skin:


My Google page (of course) ;)


And the Steampunk Forum!


Also, you'll notice the Firefox skin Im using in the upper portion of the second 2 pictures...Factory Black....kinda wish it was Factory Brass and Copper though :/



Signed,
Mr. M___ E_____ Adams
Tinkerer, Adventurer, Man of Leisure, Weird Westerner, and Cad
18--

Professor Lidenbrock

I use the Firefox skin Glowygold which is not all that far removed from a brass/copper effect.
"Through the ruins of a city stalked the ruin of a man."

The Infernal Mr Adams

Quote from: Professor Lidenbrock on August 17, 2007, 06:31:51 PM
I use the Firefox skin Glowygold which is not all that far removed from a brass/copper effect.

Really! Any chance of posting a picture?
Signed,
Mr. M___ E_____ Adams
Tinkerer, Adventurer, Man of Leisure, Weird Westerner, and Cad
18--

Professor Lidenbrock

QuoteReally!Any chance of posting a picture?
That may take a while. In the meantime this link will,hopefully,take you to Firefox's own preview of it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addons/previews/3272
"Through the ruins of a city stalked the ruin of a man."

MrFats

I'm quite shocked anyone had remembered that...unfortunately pieces of the project lie buried in my "to do" pile, which has been rather large lately...I will post a screenshot of what I DO have, the start menu and such. With that being said, how does one take a screenshot? (I apologize but I do not recall.
Fueled by coffee, powered by steam
Scientist, philosopher, photographer, writer

Sir Theodore Catchpole


Professor Lidenbrock

It's unizon brainstormed v5 (I use the same one)
"Through the ruins of a city stalked the ruin of a man."

Jacob Squirrel

Skins are all fine and dandy, but I personally feel that the whole purpose of them are defeated when the task bar doesn't match. So i took about a good 2 hours to figure out how to change that



makes everything else look like so...



It's pretty subtle, yet makes everything look so much nicer, fits perfectly with the Goldy Glow thinga'ma'bob for firefox...

"Madness is never to far away."
     -Jim Carrey

The Infernal Mr Adams

#10
Quote from: Sir Theodore Catchpole on August 17, 2007, 08:39:23 PM

what skin is that?


I dont remember its name, It was posted on the Brass Goggles main site during Mr Hildebrandts week long tenure in...Feb? As soon as I get home from work Ill search it out and post a link....It IS very pretty, huh?


EDIT: Oooops, I just noticed that Prof Lidenbrock answered the question smashingly...nevermind about me, search out what he said ;) 


Signed,
Mr. M___ E_____ Adams
Tinkerer, Adventurer, Man of Leisure, Weird Westerner, and Cad
18--

Stefan Freestate

Quote from: Professor Lidenbrock on August 17, 2007, 02:50:25 PM
This is beyond brilliant! How is it done?

Gnome is quite easily customised:

  • Wallpaper is two panels of the Edison Bar photos, enlarged to 1680x1050px with no ill effect
  • Screensaver (not shown) is a collection of vintage photographs and illustrations in keeping with steampunk aesthetics
  • Panel and icon typeface is a Bookman ripoff for Linux
  • Panel colour is beige for readability
  • Custom theme controls are "Serenity", window borders "Brace2", icons "Humilty" (though I'm working on my own now)
  • Firefox is skinned with OldFactory Silver/Rust
  • iGoogle is skinned with SteamPunk
  • Media player is Xine with the OMS_Legacy skin

O for the WinAmp media player - in a previous incarnation I used and loved that Unison Brainstormed skin! May eventually develop a similar one for Xine.
Relinquo vos liberos.

Daemon

Am I the only one that is using the OldFactory Windows XP Theme? Its quite smashing and matches the Firefox Oldfactory Black theme perfectly.

http://www.mozilla-theme-oldfactory.de/download.php

The Infernal Mr Adams

#13
Heres a link to the Brainstormed Winamp skin:

Voila!

And another Poink!
This one is Bunker!
Coool
Old Radio!
Old Radio 2!
Book of WinAmp

Thats all I can find right now



Signed,
Mr. M___ E_____ Adams
Tinkerer, Adventurer, Man of Leisure, Weird Westerner, and Cad
18--

Dr. Redmoon

Does anyone know if there are any vaguely steampunk ASTONSHELL skins?

Daemon


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPN1MgvrJus

My desktop is so awesome a simple stationary picture isn't good enough...




Thuzle

I was wondering what you all wanted in a desktop. Let your mind go wild. Interactive background, rotating gears to virtual consoles, a skybox with welding spark particle effects. Anything your mind can conceive of. Would you use a start menu? Use a system try or task bar? Is there any other way you would want the information presented?

What stylized format would you want systray icons to be in (OS X and Vista have the flat white/black audio and network icons). Let it all spill out.

Professor Lidenbrock

Yahoo Widgets do a desktop pocket watch under the heading of "Multi Clock" :P
"Through the ruins of a city stalked the ruin of a man."

B. Fugu

Yours are all so beautiful! Mine is a crude little homemade desktop, with a cursor I downloaded.
http://fugunews.wordpress.com/

"This is the Captain. We have a little problem with our entry sequence, so we may experience some slight turbulance and then...explode." --Malcom Reynolds, Serenity

chicar

Daemon: How do you get your i google skin ?
The word pagan came from paganus , who mean peasant . Its was a way to significate than christianism was the religion of the elite and paganism the one of the savage worker class.

''Trickster shows us how we trick OURSELVES. Her rampant curiosity backfires, but, then, something NEW is discovered (though usually not what She expected)! This is where creativity comes from—experiment, do something different, maybe even something forbidden, and voila! A breakthrough occurs! Ha! Ha! We are released! The world is created anew! Do something backwards, break your own traditions, the barrier breaks; destroy the world as you know it, let the new in.''
Extract of the Dreamflesh article ''Path of The Sacred Clown''

Dr. Redmoon

Anyone have a clockwork or other suitably steampunk widescreen wallpaper, preferably at 1280x800 resolution? You would think such a thing would be easy to find.....

Stefan Freestate

Quote from: Dr. Redmoon on August 23, 2007, 03:33:07 AM
Anyone have a clockwork or other suitably steampunk widescreen wallpaper, preferably at 1280x800 resolution? You would think such a thing would be easy to find.....

Google Image "clockwork", select Advanced Search -> Large Pictures, and you should find plenty of good examples from watch auctioners etc. Crop them to size with a graphics editor and you're away!
Relinquo vos liberos.

Great Bizarro

"No matter where you go, there you are"

Daemon


Dr. Redmoon

I finnaly got something I'm happy with  :P



Using the Old Factory XP theme, as well as the rusted factory Firefox skin