GNU Weu Wei
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This is an image of a GNU meditating and playing the flute, surrounded by Chinese writing which says "Wu Wei", or in English (a rough translation) "Not forcing". There is also the Yin Yang symbol behind.
Just because I know some will think this is the cliched westener putting symbol he knows nothing about there to look cool (which does annoy me lol), I'll explain a little about them.
Wu Wei is part of the philosophy of Taoism, and this particular aspect talks of how we should not resist what is natural. By accepting the tension between opposing forces, by not getting in ones' own way, one can live more easily and pleasantly. By the same token, I believe a desktop should not force itself upon the user, it should become almost invisible, so that it enhances your experience of the tasks you are doing. That is my "desktop philosophy" (hmm!) which I like to translate to my background.
The GNU is turning the use of his computer into a personally enriching and poetic affair by meditating with his flute. He does not need to even touch his keyboard, so at one with his computer is he, without losing himself to it.
Oh and I should point out that I stole the GNU itself from http://www.gnu.org/graphics/meditate.html
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debian1993
15 years ago
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N0ne
15 years ago
Thanks.
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photodharma
18 years ago
non-striving, to flow like water.
always makes me think of Krishna with Arjuna on the battleground--inside, a still, mirror like pond, in the midsts of chaos.
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photodharma
18 years ago
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sociolect
15 years ago
Neg, a bit confucius are we?
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RickDB
18 years ago
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MrChucho
18 years ago
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telex
18 years ago
Fonts - window title (nasalization)
- menu (nordic)
- taskbar (lucidasanslucidix sans)
Icons - a mix of crystal, freeicons and my own creations
Style - .NET
Window decoration - Liquid - Mack Style
XMMS skin - my own, copying the decoration of KDE apps to try to get it to look the same
I can post some of these things as KDE-look submissions if you like.
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spammacus
18 years ago
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Eudial
18 years ago
And o.O the translation i've run across is "meaningless effort"
Altho, i might be mistaken...
Anyway, nice wallpaper...
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hamking
18 years ago
It can be yin-yan(prolly the closest to the actually chinese you'll get), Ying-Yang(very americanized, but if you must...) Yin-Yang, etc.
It really shouldn't matter how you spell it/pronounce it though. If you understand the concept of yin and yan: Its not so much depicting that there is a light to a dark. It is actually depicting that one cannot exist without the other.
Can you know beaty if you do not know ugly? Can you really know love, if you've never felt hate? We only know of the good, from knowing of the bad. And this balance should aways be maintained. You need good, and you need bad. Because if you do not have one, you lose sight of the other. And you will eventually fall into chaos once again.
As for the background:
Very nice!! I like it. :D
I will have to download this one.
btw,
Its always nice to run into a fellow taoist ;)
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18 years ago
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