Layered Desktop with a Wallpaper
Your desktop maybe full of icons. You need to spend at least 10 seconds to find the application you want to run, or 5 seconds to find the work-in-progress document. Look no further on an easy solution. Gabriel Radic has came up a great idea to organise your icons on desktop in groups, by using a wallpaper.
You can use it to organise your icons in groups, just like how you organise your desk. There is a paper area for your work-in-progrss stuff, an aluminum plate for personal projects, a wooden desk yet-to-be-categorized stuff, and post-it for high priority items.
The image works well with displays up to 1440px wide and up to 1024px tall, in either standard or wide aspect ratios. If you have a bigger screen, I hate you :-)
Get the clean dark version here or the light version here.
Download the wallpaper and set it as your desktop background. Make sure you use centered layout.
Layered Desktop in use – [Gabriel Radic @ Flickr]
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uksigma says on September 11th, 2006 at 7:12 am
that is amazing because it’s so simple, why did i never think of that?
Ernie Oporto says on September 11th, 2006 at 9:58 am
I prefer the clean look of just not using the desktop:
Right-click on the desktop, Arrange Icons By, uncheck Show Desktop Icons. Have a folder in My Documents for My Downloads. Another one for My Files. Sync the My Files to a network folder using the free GoodSync tool.
vodkajello says on September 11th, 2006 at 11:05 am
All I have to say is Quicksilver.
No icons, no clicking.
Hit the hotkey, type the first letter of whatever app you want and hit enter.
Type the file name of a doc, hit enter. It opens.
Need 3 programs open? type the first letter of each program seperated by commas and they all open. (for instance if I type a, s, m, i my computer opens adium, safari, mail and itunes all at once, in about 5 seconds.)
The best mouseless laucher ever!
sandstheman says on September 11th, 2006 at 12:13 pm
wouldn’t i just waste the time saved organising my files?
xiangge says on September 11th, 2006 at 4:31 pm
It’s a good idea!
bc says on September 12th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Cool idea, but I’ve given up on desktop icons in Windows. My desktop is clear except for Yahoo Widgets. Instead, I use the desktop toolbar, set along the left edge of the screen, with small icons, and auto-hidden. I just drag to the edge and the toolbar pops up. I’ve refined this further by adding several other folders to the desktop toolbar. I did this by creating additional toolbars within the desktop toolbar. It means I end up with a single toolbar along the left edge of the screen, divided into sections with all my icons available in one click. I’ve even added another similar toolbar on the right hand side of the screen for documents I’m working on.
Limousine Lover says on September 14th, 2006 at 8:03 am
Fantastic tool, but it would be great with some more postit things on right side.