I’m puzzled.
If you’re anything like me - and I know I am - then you like to personalise your work computer a bit. You might change the colours, or install a fancy Matrix-style screensaver, or any one of a multitude of customisations, but probably the commonest and easiest way to make a soulless box “belong” to you is to change the desktop wallpaper.
It’s easy - I’m sure we all know how to do it, and that most of you reading this have done it at some point in your computing life. And we all know it’s called either “Wallpaper” or nowadays in Windows XP “Desktop”.
Not “Screensaver”, you’ll notice. That’s something else. That’s the thing that cuts in after N minutes and blanks your screen, or does the Matrix animation, or shows a starfield, or bounces a hilarious slogan around the screen in an amusing fashion. Savvy?
I employ a little add-on (it’s a Microsoft Powertoy!) which changes my wallpaper every 30 minutes, and I have a large selection of images in a special folder for just this purpose - pictures of my cat, holiday scenes, amusing stuff I’ve found off the web… whatever. And because of this constant state of change, my wallpaper tends to catch the eye of people in the office.
But here’s my beef: when this happens, the person in question always - and I mean always - comments on it by saying, “Oh, I like your screensaver.” No, it’s my desktop (or wallpaper) that you like. My screensaver itself is as boring as it gets - I have it set to Blank Screen.
It’s a small thing I know, and I only mention it because of the absolute ubiquity of the phenomenon. No-one has yet said to me, “Oh, I like your wallpaper,” or in fact, “Oh, I like your desktop.”
Meh. I could have bigger problems, I suppose.
–c.
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Apart from agreeing on all the above I’m just letting you know that the functionality you are talking about is also built into litestep module(s). I’m telling you this as from one litestep’er to another.
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