The Compartmentalized Desktop
Thu, Feb 12th, 2009 |
Reader Kseve has put together a workspace-oriented desktop with just a few of our favorite add-ons.
This desktop is a combination of several tools we've reviewed here: layered wallpaper to establish boundaries between items, with those boundaries further enforced with Fences, the program creating the gray corrals around the icons. Rounding out the computer-as-real-desktop theme is Launchy, skinned with a sticky note skin. The final tweak is Start Killer to remove the start button in Windows Vista. The widgets are native to Vista, but Windows XP users can install the sidebar too.
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