My Desktop is Boring

I revealed desktop earlier and was surprised to find a utilitarian utopia:

• There are no icons on the desktop
• The background image is simply grey
• There’s no Dock

Concerned that obsessive–compulsive minimalism had kicked in, I tried to figure out why my office computer had ended up like this.

Certain projects of mine benefit from IM, but I can’t work productively with Adium or Skype’s icon blinking intermittently. Rather than quit and load all the time, I hid the Dock.

I take a lot of screenshots of my products, and I also make videos to demo work to clients, which resulted in the grey desktop. Accidentally capturing the content of my desktop background got annoying.

I don’t really work with many documents, and scrappy bits that I need to share get dragged to Dropbox rather than the desktop.

DateLine sits at the bottom of the screen so I can quickly work out appointments without needing to open iCal.