Large "Show Desktop" Icon for RocketDock etc [inside - 56k beware]

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I just made this icon :D I bet someone will say "heres one" but meh..! I think this one came out pretty well. It's PNG, and was made in Fireworks. This is the original (vector) one so can be resized as big as you like without any quality loss. Feel free to edit it or whatever! Opinions/comments welcome.

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(IE6 users, if any, might see this image with a wierd colour background. That's your fault for using IE6. Stop using it!)

I made this for RocketDock... Save it to C:\Program Files\Rocketdock\Icons if you want to use it with Rocketdock

One big problem with RocketDock, is that when you click the "show desktop" icon in quick start, RocketDock gets minimised too..! I found out that one way around this is to have the Show Desktop icon actually as an icon in the RocketDock toolbar, and the RocketDock toolbar as show on mouseover with AutoHide enabled. But the problem there is that the icon looks fuzzy. This icon (above) and this guide (below) will help you make it look sexeh!

Before:
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To create a Show Dekstop icon that works in the RocketDock toolbar, do this in Notepad:

[Shell]
Command=2
IconFile=explorer.exe,3
[Taskbar]
Command=ToggleDesktop

On the File menu, click Save As, in the Save as type drop-down list select "all files" (to stop it putting .txt on the end), and then save the file somewhere (e.g. My Documents) as Show Desktop.scf. Now put that in your rocketdock (right click -> add item -> file -> etc). When it's in there, right click it and click "Icon Settings". Change it for the icon you see in the list (the desktop icon at the top of this post, which you should have saved to C:\Program Files\Rocketdock\Icons\ or whever rocketdock's installed on your pc)!

After:
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I hope this helps at least one person, because this bugged me big time :)
 
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I have no idea about the Vista sidebar. If the Vista sidebar gets minimised to desktop when you click Show Desktop, Microsoft really need to pull their finger out - they've had long enough to sort obvious things like that out!

bledd. said:
is that theme Luna Royale? :)
It sure is! :D

I have RocketDock, Visual Task Tips and Alt Tab Replacement - makes me descktop nice to sit at :) I was considering one of those shell replacements, but none of them look particularly great. Oh yeah and TweakUI to get the recycle bin off the desktop! And Ultramon for the dual monitors... lol. Good job these programs are lightweight ;)

P.S. Take Visual TaskTips out of Boot.ini and put it in your start->programs->startup folder, which should make it load up after Ultramon. Otherwise it doesn't work on Ultramon's taskbar.



I just have to keep away from the default Fischer Price Windows look >.<
 
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furnace said:
I have no idea about the Vista sidebar. If the Vista sidebar gets minimised to desktop when you click Show Desktop, Microsoft really need to pull their finger out - they've had long enough to sort obvious things like that out!


It sure is! :D

I have RocketDock, Visual Task Tips and Alt Tab Replacement - makes me descktop nice to sit at :) I was considering one of those shell replacements, but none of them look particularly great. Oh yeah and TweakUI to get the recycle bin off the desktop! And Ultramon for the dual monitors... lol. Good job these programs are lightweight ;)

P.S. Take Visual TaskTips out of Boot.ini and put it in your start->programs->startup folder, which should make it load up after Ultramon. Otherwise it doesn't work on Ultramon's taskbar.



I just have to keep away from the default Fischer Price Windows look >.<


you'd love xpize

has luna royale as the visual style (it was made for xpize), http://xpize.thunderhoster.com/?page=screenshots

-disable the bootscreen tho, it removes the scrolling thing if you have the bootscreen enabled (when you install xpize)

-cool tip about VTT and ultramon



ooh and luna royale has been updated loads of times since the one you have
 
bledd. said:
ooh and luna royale has been updated loads of times since the one you have

Really? I nicked this theme from my Dads "XP Media Center Edition" laptop :p Where do I get the updated lunar royale?

That XPize thing, does it just change the boot & login screens, a few icons, and give it a new theme?
 
Luna Element might be worth a look.

As for Xpize, it basically changes all the non-XP style icons that XP has, which is quite a lot. Also adds a few nice skins for stuff like WinRAR, changes the boot screen and Welcome screens, and also changes the animations you see when moving/copying files and such. It's very well made.
 
xpize isn't your average crappy icon pack etc.. it patches files instead of replacing them, so you don't get any weird errors

it updates old bitmaps in windows too

what you have is Royale, Luna Royale is a 3rd party version, that is a lot sweeter :)
 
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