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Hmm, yes.
Maybe it's only for windows[^], Linux[^], and apple[^].
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Mark_Wallace wrote: Maybe it's only for windows[^]
Wallpaper for Windows? How would you see out?
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I know!
And what's the Z-order? Is it windows-desktop-wallpaper, or wallpaper-desktop-windows???
It's enough to drive you up the wall, it is -- wallpaper or no wallpaper!
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reminds me of "window manager"
Real programmers use butterflies
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I always pictured someone in a black uniform, shouting "I'm in charge!"
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Hm, hadn't considered that one before  My favorite has traditionally been "constant variable."
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Given that the screen is generally close to vertical while working, the term "Desktop" is the real anomaly.
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Ah, but it's horizontal, in the computer's memory, and is just projected onto a near-vertical surface -- otherwise, everything would fall to the bottom.
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😟 i am trying to understand what you mean?
For me all i see is that the desktop term comes from digitising the physical desk. Trach can, draws, folders.
As for for Desktop wallpaper I imagine when the developer working in a cubical, where you could stick things to vertical surfaces. I've only ever worked in "open" work places, because as a developer I want more noise 🤷♂️
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Do you have a real, physical desk?
How did its makers finish its top?
a: with varnish or lacquer?
b: with melamine?
c: with Fablon?
d: with Formica?
e: with 1mm, 1.2mm, or 1.5mm wood laminate?
f: with wallpaper?
If they went for f, it's probably best not to buy furniture from them again.
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Okay, but it's a Virtual Desktop, held vertically.
So, you could call it a "covering" or "tablecloth", or "runner"...
But wallpaper meant the right thing to me.
Now, Dragging a diskette to a garbage can to EJECT... That's CRAZY! 
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Kirk 10389821 wrote: Okay, but it's a Virtual Desktop, held vertically.
We've already covered that[^].
The actual desktop is horizontal, but is projected onto a vertical screen, which is why CRT monitors were so big.
Nowadays, projection software is vastly improved, so monitors can be much slimmer.
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This have given me an idea for an unmixed-metaphor GUI.
It will have a desktop, but it will be covered by a proper blotter. The mouse pointer will of course be replaced by a nib, which will need to be periodically dipped into the inkwell at the bottom right of the screen to keep it working (fountain pen upgrades available in the app store). To save a document, you of course turn it over and press it to the blotter. If you want to send an email the pneumatic tubes are there for you on the right, and if you want to open a chat session there's a teletype to your left.
There will be no windows, because as everyone knows if you want work to get done you put people in a room with no windows.
This is golden, I should pitch it to VC guys. A decade ago this would have been enough to get to an IPO.
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I don't believe in wallpaper, I just have paint.
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Yes, whitewashing has become very popular, in the past few years.
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Surely, it should be Curtains for Windows?
Apart from the pun, it is actually quite a good analogy - when the curtain(s) across, you can't see the windows...
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Either that or the hamsters have been given too much fermented sunflower seed...
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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 I don't get it?
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CP disappeared for 15 minutes or so - even isup.me agreed it wasn't working.
I blame the legalisation of Hamster Narcotics, myself.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Thanks for clarifying!
Quote: I blame the legalisation of Hamster Narcotics, myself.
This is entirely possible. Pot is legal in Canada as far as I remember! 
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OriginalGriff wrote: fermented sunflower seed
While browsing CP this evening, I got a page saying that "CP's crack team of sysadmins" were performing an upgrade. They obviously prefer a different poison.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Daniel Pfeffer wrote: I got a page saying that "CP's crack team of sysadmins" were performing an upgrade.
As opposed to microsoft update's sysadmin team of crack-heads?
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Mark_Wallace wrote: microsoft update's sysadmin team of crack-heads?
You've just offended every crack-head out there. 
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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