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Kenn · #1 Post by **Kenn** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:39 am

Let's keep it going!

Here's mine, first is a clean desktop:

Next is during a typical session:

Theme is Bluecurve/Thincurve, with a self-designed minimum-height taskband created in StyleXP. Coolmon runs across the top, where Y'zDock is also set to autohide.

s0larian · #2 Post by **s0larian** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 8:20 am

really nice desktop. I am als running bluecurve/thincurve. Can you post a link to your beach wallpaper?

benz · #3 Post by **benz** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:53 am

sugo · #4 Post by **sugo** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:35 am

Kenn · #5 Post by **Kenn** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 1:35 pm

Benz: I love that Longhorn Bliss wallpaper - it seems to have a darker, pensive nature that fits with the aero themes. Now you're not lightening the wallets of new "World Poker Tour" fans between class, are you?

And I see sugo is going for the minimalist look. Interesing that we all have Firefox installed

mad_medic77 · #6 Post by **mad_medic77** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:35 pm

Here's mine. Another rather minimalistic one.

sugo · #7 Post by **sugo** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 2:39 pm

another firefoxer

benz · #8 Post by **benz** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 3:56 pm

Kenn wrote:Benz: I love that Longhorn Bliss wallpaper - it seems to have a darker, pensive nature that fits with the aero themes. Now you're not lightening the wallets of new "World Poker Tour" fans between class, are you?

And I see sugo is going for the minimalist look. Interesing that we all have Firefox installed

Haha, actually I play DURING some classes, if you can believe it....and I'm definitely not relieving anyone of money, if anything its going the complete opposite direction!

And yep, I have firefox, but as you can see I predominantly use IE....firefox is just a backup for now, but I'm sure IE will go to [censored] on me sometime in the near future

RCube · #9 Post by **RCube** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:23 pm

benz: I saw your desktop on neowin too. So how do you like LClock?

Quattro · #10 Post by **Quattro** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 4:35 pm

Kenn · #11 Post by **Kenn** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:13 pm

benz wrote:
Haha, actually I play DURING some classes, if you can believe it....and I'm definitely not relieving anyone of money, if anything its going the complete opposite direction!

And yep, I have firefox, but as you can see I predominantly use IE....firefox is just a backup for now, but I'm sure IE will go to [censored] on me sometime in the near future

Haha, we have plenty of game-playing in class where I am as well. Most of it is solitaire, but I know some people go through entire FIFA matches in the course of a lecture

I always end up keeping IE around as a backup because the odd page here and there fails to render correctly in Firefox. In fact, my troubleshooting workflow is now: Site looks odd/doesn't work? Step 1: Try it in IE. One of these days though...

benz · #12 Post by **benz** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 6:25 pm

RCube wrote:benz: I saw your desktop on neowin too. So how do you like LClock?

LClock is a great utility, its about second to last on my task manager list when I sort by mem usage....and its SOOOO much more visible than the default windows clock. It really helps when you're running SXGA+ and you want to be able to quickly glance at the time. Also, the popup calendar is nice for an at-a-glance look at the dates. I highly recommend it!

RCube · #13 Post by **RCube** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 9:09 pm

benz wrote:
RCube wrote:benz: I saw your desktop on neowin too. So how do you like LClock?
LClock is a great utility, its about second to last on my task manager list when I sort by mem usage....and its SOOOO much more visible than the default windows clock. It really helps when you're running SXGA+ and you want to be able to quickly glance at the time. Also, the popup calendar is nice for an at-a-glance look at the dates. I highly recommend it!

Thank you for the positive comments! I am glad you like LClock.

I should really find some time and add some new features that people have been asking for. hehe

benz · #14 Post by **benz** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 10:20 pm

Wait a minute.....you're the man behind LClock!!! The whole time I'm thinking you want to try it out, so I went over to Neowin and searched for the thread, and when it came up I saw that someone named "RCube" started it........

AWESOME utility man, great work! Honestly, I can't find anything wrong with it, what have people been suggesting?

jjackson02 · #15 Post by **jjackson02** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:18 pm

the thinkpad

and the other pc

Kenn · #16 Post by **Kenn** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 11:29 pm

I just installed LClock as well. I went through this convoluted process of using Coolmon to show the time/day/date and a Calendar Docklet to access the windows calendar/timezone applet when I realized that thinbars don't don't show Day/Date/Time when double-height. Having LClock show time + date on a single-height thinbar is good enough to make me switch.

RCube · #17 Post by **RCube** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:23 pm

benz wrote:Wait a minute.....you're the man behind LClock!!! The whole time I'm thinking you want to try it out, so I went over to Neowin and searched for the thread, and when it came up I saw that someone named "RCube" started it........

AWESOME utility man, great work! Honestly, I can't find anything wrong with it, what have people been suggesting?

hehe, thanx again!

- week number in calendar.
- better alarm, snooze
- ability to display more information on the taskbar
- multilingual
- more user friendly control panel

s0larian · #18 Post by **s0larian** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 1:39 pm

@RCube:

I also installed LClock as an Admin user on my german OS (-> into c:\Programme\lclock). It worked quite well, but when I switch to a regular user, LClock tries to look for the ini file in c:\program files\lclock. I changed one entry in the registry, but it doesn't help. The path seems to be hardcoded in the program. Installation into c:\program files solves this problem. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know. Great peace of software!

RCube · #19 Post by **RCube** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:11 pm

s0larian wrote:@RCube:

I also installed LClock as an Admin user on my german OS (-> into c:\Programme\lclock). It worked quite well, but when I switch to a regular user, LClock tries to look for the ini file in c:\program files\lclock. I changed one entry in the registry, but it doesn't help. The path seems to be hardcoded in the program. Installation into c:\program files solves this problem. Anyway, I just wanted to let you know. Great peace of software!

yes I know this problem. LClock doesn't support multiple user right now. But it is something I plan to add one day.

thank you!

benz · #20 Post by **benz** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 2:39 pm

Well whatever you decide to include in the later releases, don't let it get too bloated with features, or at least have a bare-bones version and one with all of those "improvements". Again, fine piece of work!

Kenn · #21 Post by **Kenn** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 6:47 pm

RCube wrote:
yes I know this problem. LClock doesn't support multiple user right now. But it is something I plan to add one day.

thank you!

RCube,

LClock is fantastic, thanks for making it (and for making it SO customizable)!

I wouldn't mind the ability to see both Day and Date on a single-width taskbar

Also, this may be a dumb question, but how does the Alarm function work in 1.62b? Does it automatically play for all events?

johnson · #22 Post by **johnson** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:36 pm

and we needed a new one because...

sugo · #23 Post by **sugo** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 9:49 pm

johnson wrote:and we needed a new one because...

does it matter?

Kenn · #24 Post by **Kenn** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 10:03 pm

johnson wrote:and we needed a new one because...

New threads can get more people involved, especially if the forum has been a little quiet for a while

sugo · #25 Post by **sugo** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:04 pm

The sub forum name is "Pictures of your ThinkPad & desk setup". It sounds more like name for a thread.

What's the point to have a one thread sub forum?

Kenn · #26 Post by **Kenn** » Sun Feb 06, 2005 11:13 pm

sugo wrote: What's the point to have a one thread sub forum?

I guess it could be separated a number of ways. Pictures of laptops, customization projects (like my recent NuShield installation) , photochops of various sorts, desktop setups, on-screen desktop images, etc. etc. It is fairly narrow, but generally "Thinkpad-themed images" is a bit too broad for one thread.

RCube · #27 Post by **RCube** » Mon Feb 07, 2005 1:52 am

Kenn wrote:
RCube wrote:
yes I know this problem. LClock doesn't support multiple user right now. But it is something I plan to add one day.

thank you!
RCube,

LClock is fantastic, thanks for making it (and for making it SO customizable)!

I wouldn't mind the ability to see both Day and Date on a single-width taskbar

Also, this may be a dumb question, but how does the Alarm function work in 1.62b? Does it automatically play for all events?

thank you!

the ability to customize what gets displayed on the taskbar is something I want to add too.

alarm:
double click on any date to set an event. And you have to specify a time. When that time comes you will get a popup and also lclock will play a wav/mp3 you have specified in LClock Properties -> Other -> Alarm.

But if your computer was off or standby then you won't get the alarm even if you turn it on after the alarm. Something I want to change too. hehe

SWB · #28 Post by **SWB** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:23 am

benz,

What visual style / theme is that? Can you post a URL to it?

Thanks!

RCube · #29 Post by **RCube** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 12:35 pm

SWB wrote:benz,

What visual style / theme is that? Can you post a URL to it?

Thanks!

I think that is Royal Four: http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?s ... =royalfour

benz · #30 Post by **benz** » Tue Feb 08, 2005 1:11 pm

That is correct

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