Post Your Desktop: January 2021

iAssimilated · Jan 6, 2021

mikiotty said:
Here is my freshly "upgraded" Late 2007 15" MacBook Pro. I just swapped the upgraded keyboard and the multitouch trackpad from a dead Late 2008 17" I had lying around. The trackpad makes everything so much nicer to use.
I actually prefer this over my 13" 2013 Retina MacBook Pro!

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Love the background, do you have a link to download it?

mikiotty · Jan 6, 2021

iAssimilated said:
Love the background, do you have a link to download it?

Here it is: 798614946400323523

Jaws123DRevenge · Jan 6, 2021

allan.nyholm said:
My desktop currently - basically a mashup and mockup of a work in progress of making Big Sur something let's say .... else?

Working theme btw. For Retina Macs because I don't have anything else. Btw. If you're ready for a little testing then don't hesitate to write me a letter. Or a comment.
I have some things with the dark mode in particular on Big Sur that doesn't work quite as I expected it - meaning Graphite takes, but not Blue(Aqua) If Accessibility is turned on then dark mode for Blue appearance works. So there's that. A headscratcher.

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do you have something like this for Catalina? I'm using you're Aqualick for Catalina but it doesn't add the brushed metal thats here

allan.nyholm · Jan 6, 2021

Jaws123DRevenge said:
do you have something like this for Catalina? I'm using you're Aqualick for Catalina but it doesn't add the brushed metal thats here

I'm certain that I can add the background. It's only a gradient. I haven't added any brushed metal overlay, but you tapped into something there.

Jaws123DRevenge · Jan 6, 2021

allan.nyholm said:
I'm certain that I can add the background. It's only a gradient. I haven't added any brushed metal overlay, but you tapped into something there.

Ya, I saw your leopard esque theme for high sierra that looked cool. I tried using a theme on hithub by MoonPadUSer. It works, but it doesn't support dark mode, and the facetime and notification center tabs are now blank without text. The guy who made it deleted his account so it prob won't be updated again either.

MacNerd1239 · Jan 8, 2021

bigpoppamac31 · Jan 8, 2021

buttongerald said:
macOS Big Sur took a bunch of huge farts, so I spent my night rolling it back. Did a recovery all the way back to Mavericks.

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And here we go onto Catalina.

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I miss the Mavericks and prior Mac OS UI. I loved the 3D Dock.

buttongerald · Jan 8, 2021

bigpoppamac31 said:
I miss the Mavericks and prior Mac OS UI. I loved the 3D Dock.

Ditto. I wish Apple would program themes into the OS to give us some variety.

iAssimilated · Jan 8, 2021

buttongerald said:
Ditto. I wish Apple would program themes into the OS to give us some variety.

100% agree! You would think built-in theme support would be a no-brainer.

At least give us previous OS X themes, but I would hope for much more, like user submitted themes (much like the DEs on linux).

iAssimilated · Jan 8, 2021

buttongerald said:
Anyone else see the theme in our posts? hahaha.

A digital take on that theme... my 2014 mini:

buttongerald · Jan 8, 2021

iAssimilated said:
At least give us previous OS X themes, but I would hope for much more, like user submitted themes (much like the DEs on linux).

I would ADORE an old Brushed Metal theme with similar sidebar that was available in pre-Leopard versions of OS X.

Also, that wall you posted is gorgeous, where did you come across it?

iAssimilated · Jan 8, 2021

buttongerald said:
Also, that wall you posted is gorgeous, where did you come across it?

It was the default wallpaper for KDE Plasma 5.18: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/01/kde-plasma-5-18-lts-default-wallpaper-revealed

Many of the wallpapers I have posted of my desktop in these threads have featured the winners or contestants for KDE Plasma releases. There is some really good artwork being created.