I would just love to see a highly interactive DesktopX theme built coinciding with Halo 2

I would like to have a animated WINDOW. Like a Kitchen Window, or Living room Window that was animated to the curent weather. Not the whole desktop, just a portion.
So it looked like a real window with outside view.

Same deal with an animated Fireplace
(I used to do this stuff with Active Desktop, but that ate alot of resources.)

Also, A picture frame like the one in Harry Potter of the Harry's dancing parents would be cool. (Really just a framed video clip I guess)

expose-ish type of application that lets you manage your windows, or similar alt-tab replacement like the windows powertoy which shows thumbnails of your tasks - however that powertoy has problems with some of my apps so a desktopx varient might help. something that tiles your titlebars or icons at the LEAST would be a sure-fire legal alternative.

'sketch pad' - lets you draw either directly on the desktop, or in a whiteboard type setting to make quick doodles - MSN messanger's whiteboard is an excellent example - would love to be able to save desktop doodles as an image (transparent png!!) but saving could be accomplished by an:

'image capture' utility to let you draw a box and save the contents as an image..usefull for taking quick snapsshots of something you are working on to send out.. i think every skinner here could appreciate that.

mail checker - more functional than what we usually see in a checker.. similar to the groupwise notify that lets you see the time and subject line of an incomming message and let you launch the mail app or message, or delete it.. for outlook or hotmail addies. i havn't looked at the VAST amount of mail checkers because most don't do this so i don't know if this has been done.

'alarm clock'

'label colors' to change an icon or icon's text label to a color (yes, yes.. like osx...)

'send to' desktop items.. drag a file over it and it goes off to an email, to a disk, to a zip, or to the internet.

'magnifying glass' - similar to the powertoy but you drag IT over what you want to zoom in on, instead of just zooming up on your cursor

'desktop level mixer controls' for all of your audio devices (dunno about the rest of you but i have like..15 input/output sliders ). martin, you're a god if you can put a speaker fader on the desktop to control front and rear speakers.

smexx's idea of a desktop audio visualizor would be aweesome.

'window-in-window' - lets you bring up your desktop, for example, in a small window on top of everything else so you can a desktop icon.


fun:

grab an icon or window and throw it against the screen and it bounces all over the place. usefull for when SDC is pissing you off.

a clumsy little puppy that chases your curor and tries to jump at it, grabs your cursor and runs off with it if you arn't paying attention.

I would like a simple ledger, to keep track of my cash on hand without opening my whole financial application.  Just be able to make a quick note what came in, what went out and a comment where.  Then later on when i had more time, I could enter that into my regular application.  If it had another section, kind of like a budget planning section, that would be good too.

Give me a widget that could open my web cam in an instant with zoom functions and changeable blinds . now im of to mcdonalds.

ps the pc is mightyer than the bazooka......

I'm glad that you came up with this idea Marin! I was thinking of something similar the other night, especially seeing in the CursorXP catagory of cursors, alot of them are the same. I'm also finding that a lot of the DesktopX Objects are very, very similar. I myself would love it if creators would include instructions on modifying scripts more often when the occasion for such applets could apply.

I would like to have an Object for watching TV through my TV card. I also like that idea of DesignCaddy of ObjectDock either built within, or as an add-on, for DesktopX. I'm getting rather tired of seeing that, "We don't support this application," type stuff for them, since I don't know if I can trust the ObjectDock or not.

One thing I would also like to see Martin, and this is for you, though it's not related to DesktopX is that "Backwards Clock" that you did for Beatnik. Perhaps a date could be included underneath like a hanging sign.

Take care, and thank you for doing this.

danilloOc, Wet Monkey, and anyone else who would like them,

My PDF documents made it through without corruption.

Would be happy to e-mail them to you (DX developer guide, DX scripting guide, and DX users guide).

Just send me an e-mail at pcojr@comcast.net

Thanks Corky-O.. I just renamed them with a .doc extension as suggested by someone in this post and that seems to have worked. But thanks for the offer

How about a more extensive scripting tutorial or better yet a weekly scripting lesson on the main page so that some of us more novice users can start to do more scripting of objects. I have done a few scrited objects but only by studying other objects with a function I liked the modifying the script (with a little trial and error) untill I got it to function the way I wanted it to. I mean I would love to be able to build script the way martin and tiggz do but I just haven't found a clear source on how to write script in DX.

Support in DX for proxy's that require userid and passwords.

please please please

Support of objectmedia for cds (cdtext+freedb) and therefore a nice dxobject (possibly with cover) would be all I would wish.

How about a stardate calender tuned to current time. Thanks to anyone that gives it any thought.

mm morphing reminded me of something.. i use quicken (unfortionately) and would love a billpay reminder.. its sort of like a mail checker, but it works with uicken (duh) ms money's got a nice one that sits in the system tray, if you need an example. but a wiget/object for doing fast actions to quicken would be fabulous

(hee hee.. i said faaabuloouuus).