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Published: 2011-05-15 14:52:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 12821; Favourites: 45; Downloads: 318
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My current desktop.Inspired by :
[link]
[link]
HOW TO :
1. Wallpaper
Walking 2
(Thanks to LifeHacker for uploading it)
2. Icons : Litho
I changed them with CandyBar
3. Calendar
I use Dateline
See my configuration here
4. Bowtie :
Fragmented theme
5. Geektool :
5.1. Dock background image :
(thanks to TuXChemistry )
Download it here
5.2. Clock : hours
Create a new console geeklet
Style : Caviar Dreams Bold, size 144, RGB : 65/65/59.
Refresh time : 60 seconds.
Command :
date +%H
5.3. Clock : minutes
Create a new console geeklet
Style : Caviar Dreams Bold, size 144, RGB : 215/137/47, opacity : 60%.
Refresh time : 1 second.
Command :
date +%M
5.4. Day
Create a new console geeklet
Style : Caviar Dreams Bold, size 24, RGB : 215/137/47, opacity : 60%.
Command :
date +"%d"
5.5. Month
Create a new console geeklet
Style : Caviar Dreams Bold, size 18, RGB : 65/65/59.
Command :
date +"%B"
6. Menu bar :
I turn it black with Aqua Extreme theme.
You can have white infos on the right (battery, time...) with iStat Menus. You have to hide original ones.
7. Orange ribbon : (credits : Ribbon Color Mods )
I cut the orange ribbon into two images. One is replacing Apple's logo, the other is a geektool image.
First open ThemePark and click on Edit sArtFile. Look for an image which has the index 61. Replace it with the following file with a drag and drop : [link]
Then with Geektool add an image geeklet with the following image. [link]
Place it under the previous one, but don't tick "Keep on top" so that it won't bother you when you have a window opened or something full screen.
Ask me anything.
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Comments: 40
Nice job on this. Any chance there is a PSD to for the wallpaper and recessed grey background? 1920x1080?
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Is anything like this at all possible in OSX 10.8.2, now? =/ I have tried candybar, Apple have removed most of the important abilities it had.
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Deliciously, i taken all. In next week try to do the desktop. Thanks [link]
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check out my screen shots. the separators are in their. Not well made, but still pretty good
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Please re-upload the wallpaper! I love it but imagebanana doesn't load it for me ):
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Nice work mann! I made one just like yours and I put "designed by (my name)" at the bottom, hehe. hope you don't mind because I thought it'd look cool, hahaha.
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Amazing work! I love the bottom cut out! Would it be possible for you to do a how to on it? or maybe even some type of template?
Keep up the great work!
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Thank you ! The bottom cut out is not mine ! What do you call some type of template?
That's really easy to make with Photoshop. Here you can find a little explanation : [link]
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Awesome! Thanks for the link! Did you use a source for your grey or just the noise tool?
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I made it black with Aqua extreme and I added the orange ribbon with Red Ribbon Color Mods. (see links above)
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Nicely done. This is inspiring to try customizing my own desktop. I used to do it a lot until snow leopard and it disabled my primary program I used to skin my desktop. Could you tell me how you skinned your top menu bar and apple icon? Thanks!
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Sure ! I made it black using the Aqua Extreme theme. (I use Snow Leopard 10.6.7 and it works)
You can find it here
For the orange ribbon I use Red Ribbon Color Mods .
I cut the orange ribbon into two parts : the first one replace the ressources 61 and 62 in sArtFile.bin (with ThemePark) and the second one is placed on the desktop with geektool.
I'll make a how to for the whole desktop soon.
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J'aime beaucoup ton choix des tons ainsi que la transparence pour la date avec geektool. En revanche, j'opterais pour la dateline sur le bandeau, on voit vraiment très mal les premiers jours ^^.
Ton choix d'icône pour le dock colle moyen avec ton wall qui est vraiment sympa. Essaye peux-être avec un dock en noir et blanc, histoire de reprendre les teintes de la barre de menu.
Perso je suis tombé accro au set Flurry pour le dock 
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Merci beaucoup pour la remarque constructive
Je suis d'accord en ce qui concerne le choix de l'emplacement de dateline, c'est parce que je l'ai rajouté en dernier et je ne savais pas vraiment où le mettre.
J'adore aussi le set Flurry
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Bah, si tu veux faire un truc très class tu peux utiliser les Helveticons ou les Kobhens, mais j'ai vu que t'avais déjà fais ça par le passé. J'en avais fait un fût un temps aussi -> [link] mais bon, changer les icônes de l'intégralité des apps que j'utilise ça m'a cassé les -bip-
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Ouais et surtout créer celles qui sont pas d'office dans le set... Je vais commencer par trouver un dock qui rappelle la barre de menu.
Comment tu as fais pour aligner le dock à droite sur ton ancien bureau?
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Je confirme: la dernière mouture de Tinker Tool permet de décaler le dock.
En revanche le soft que j'utilisais à l'origine c'était SuperDocker, à voir s'il existe toujours et si ya des MAJ.
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De mémoire je te dirais Tinker Tool, mais j'ai un doute. Je vérifierai ce soir si j'ai un ptit moment
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k so this is sper frigging cool, and i really.. like my mac AND I was wondering exactly what people are doing to achieve such appealing desktops
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Thank you ! so you mean you want a how to?
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yeahhh, well I get bowtie and dateline are all apps.. which I have and I assume the grey area is just a part of the desktop but do you know any good places to learn to use geektool3?
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On my previous desktop deviation, [link] I explain how to set up geektool.
Here, I use a font called Caviar dreams (bold), size 144 for the clock. I play with opacity, tell me if you want to know the code color and which opacity.
The grey part is an image I added with geektool too. I can upload
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ahhh k I see, so they are all moveable? and can I make a geektool image play sounds on clicks like flash buttons? lol im seeing how the clock works and its cool, its like programming in dream weaver kinda..
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You have to download and install Play Sound ([link] )
and then in your applescript file :
tell application "Play Sound"
play "HD:System:Library:Sounds:Glass.aiff" repeat 1
end tell
You have to use a shell geeklet, the trick would be to put an image geeklet in the background and the shell geeklet above it. I have not tested it and I don't know how to detect the onclick event.
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thanksss so much! ill try and figure it out and get back to you
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You're welcome ! But I really don't know whether you can use onclick events with a geeklet...
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haha turns out ya cant, but no problem, I have a nice facebook notification box and summer countdown atm along with a clock date and batterylife%...
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Thank you for your feedback! Sorry you can't but geektool's awesome you're right
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Sure they are all moveable !
I think it is possible to play a sound on click but you have to use Applescript.
Take a look at this [link]
It might help you, this one allows to play a sound on startup.
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