Microsoft: Vista desktop key to life fulfillment Forget rummaging through colleagues' drawers - if you really want to know what kind of person the man or woman you're working with is, just look at their desktop. So claims psychologist Donna Dawson, who was this week called in by Microsoft to help promote Windows Vista. Her method: highlighting users' “desktop personality …
My icons are all arranged into neat rows and grouped by function but, the very fact that I'm here typing this, rather than trying to meet a very tight and important deadline, shows that I'm not in the least bit focused and have no idea how to organise or prioritise my work. I'm just obsessive compulsive and don't like things to look untidy.
If you have a tidy desktop, you're a tidy person and if you have an unorganized desktop you're an unorganized person? And this qualifies as research?
Presumably if your employer implements a locked desktop group policy where you can't change the wallpaper or add/remove icons it means they've stolen your soul, leaving you an empty flesh shell chained to a desk.
... if I use group policy to sort everyone's icons that I'll trigger a massive upshoot in productivity amongst the staff and thus lay claim to a massive payrise? And if they are being noisy should I make it blue so they all become shy and retiring?
Presumably I have no personality given that I have no desktop icons, just the KDE4 desktop folder widget...
"For example, if you’re desktop is splattered with icons then..."
/NOT pedant
As for the desktop - having a background eats up valuable kilobytes of memory, so I have none. I also have no app shortcuts, just what has been downloaded in Firefox. I also like to think I'm a bit hardcore by not having a (Ubuntu equivalent of the) Start menu on show.
one has a wall-e background that I pieced together myself, another has the autobot logo from the transformers movie (2007) and another has a stock background. icons are generally in order of what was installed last (nice and neat to the left - out of the way of displayed wallpaper).
ooo... I like robots and possibly new technologies. oh gee... anyone that talks to me for more than 5 minutes finds that out.
just for fun, let's all change our backgrounds to that bugger plain grassy hill and make everyone think they're suddenly in pleasantville or some 1984 knock-off.
A clue perhaps?
She's the same kind of person who would look at my KDE4 Linux desktop and go "Cool, is that Vista?".
If she looks away i'd rotate it to another virtual desktop looking quite different, and upset her poor little world even more.
Grow some balls woman, and step into the real world.
Our home HTPC stays on pretty much 24x7 for instant usage, from music, films, internet, actual work etc. I guess I agree with this article in someways without even knowing it as I always make sure we have a good wallpaper on screen for whenever the screen or projector is turned on as it's ALWAYS always the first thing you see on screen.
- Dekstop icons off (always)
- Apple dock for Windows Vista (random app works pretty well)
- Auto changes wallpaper on reboot using any of the 1000's of personal photos
- Minimal usage of Windows SideBar (just not on the side)
- Tablet input slides out from the left only when needed (for our Wacom scribble thingy)
I miss DreamScene as it always looked KooL (better with DreamScape), but as our HTPC is on 24x7 it's not ideal due, as the power consumption will drop heavily when idle (15%-24%), but with DreamScene enabled it's higher (27%-41%).
This was taken a month ago, but gives you the basic idea: http://www.fazzfilmz.co.uk/random/asus_forum/screengrab-feb2009
Having a Windows Desktop is about as customisable as the paint options for new cars, beyond the Desktop Wallpaper, icon arrangement and whether to have the updated look and feel or the familiar one, all windows desktops look the same.
Automatons would be a better personality description for windows users.
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