September 2009 Screenshots thread (Page 4 of 13)

One of the woman doesn't have a head. That's mine, to suggest that a picture of what's on my desktop is a good enough reason to deduce that posting it objectifies women, is kind of silly. If I posted a picture of Kate Sheppards head, you wouldn't argue it's portraying her as just a figure of women's suffrage, and not a real woman...

EDIT: Ok the using Kate Sheppard like that was fairly weak. However there are pictures like this all over the internet, I highly doubt anyone'd be screaming objectification had I posted him instead of her. Some people need to step down from their high horse sometimes. The male abdomen/chest isn't as relevant to my interestests as a female counterpart... So naturally, I'd prefer it on my desktop.

Last edited by aim (2009-09-05 22:41:49)

Are women now required to post headless shots of themselves in their avatar?
I do however think some of these backdrops could be posted with "modesty" terminator sessions appropriately placed.

More important, if the backdrop is the only draw, unless you made it yourself, I can't see much point in posting at all - surely the point of a screenshot is to show how you've integrated a wallpaper, menus, conky, gtk theme, icons, etc?

Last edited by jackbang (2009-09-06 08:59:08)

Hmm, maybe we should have a thread called "some nice pictures", but I guess people look for different things on this thread - personally I'm more interested in what people have constructed.

Last edited by jackbang (2009-09-06 09:10:33)

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^ +1

Wow, does it really have to be this serious? They are the desktops of individuals with a right to choose what they want to consider pleasing in terms of design, beauty, form or function. When did sharing something so determined by personal choice become subject to judgment and accusations of varying degrees. Let just focus on the software people less on personal politics and what is perceived to be "correct or incorrect" in a public space.

Last edited by jinnstar (2009-09-06 16:53:37)

Clean

Dirty

GTK Theme: Diffuse Reflection Blue
OB Theme: iMetal
Icon Theme: Mac Ultimate Leopard - Tweaked by me - not done yet though...
Wallpaper: Chromata Unbranded Special made by me.
LX Panel Icons: Custom made by me.
Fonts: Bitstream Vera Sans 10 - 75 dpi

Super simple conky setup:

#avoid flicker
double_buffer yes

#own window to run simultanious 2 or more conkys
own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
own_window_hints undecorate,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

#borders
draw_borders no
border_margin 1

#shades
draw_shades no

#position
gap_x 0
gap_y 4
alignment top_left

#behaviour
update_interval 1

#colour
default_color 010101
own_window_colour 000000

#font
use_xft yes
xftfont Ericsson GA 628:size=16
uppercase yes


#to prevent window from moving
minimum_size 1024 0
use_spacer no

TEXT
${alignc}${voffset 4}Datum: ${time %a %d %b} | Tid: ${font}${time %H:%M} | Gmail: ${execi 60 python ~/.conky/gmail.py} 

Last edited by Zwopper (2009-09-06 18:20:56)

Hi, i'm new to #! and i love it. Still a little learning curve since i have never used openbox before, but i love fiddeling arround.

Cheers :-D

Here u go :-))

http://www.caedes.net/Zephir.cgi?lib=Ca … 423813.jpg

For some reason the full size version of the clean shot will not show up at full size (1440x900). It's good enough to see the shot, though. That being said, is there a better photo hosting site than photobucket? I hate it.

Perfect! Zwixy seems pretty good and I found imagenerd.com from the neowin link, it seems like a winner, too. Thanks!

[OT] I still treat women (on this forum and in real life) as people, as I did before that picture. Do you? I really don't believe the absence of a persons head is grounds to suggest that the picture is objectifying, art can be many things... I think your definition is too colloquial, and you (or the first accuser) was applying this picture to things that need not apply. [/OT]

Last edited by aim (2009-09-07 07:22:48)