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Re: 3D Desktop

__/ [ Brad ] on Monday 24 July 2006 02:39 \__

> On Mon, 24 Jul 2006 00:57:19 +0100, Scott W wrote:
> 
>> i just install 3D-Desktop off portage today just for fun. i have to say
>> that it's quite a cute little piece of eyecandy. for those of you who
>> don't know, 3D-Desktop is a way of scrolling through different
>> workspaces/desktops by giving a little 3D animation to spice things up a
>> bit :)
>> i'm gonna assign the left scroll and right scroll to different hotkeys
>> to make things simpler (currently i've set them as button shortcuts on
>> my XFCE panel which is adequate for now). then i'll show it off. it
>> might go well together with xgl (if xgl hasn't already integrated this
>> feature in). always nice to show points where linux gives ya some
>> eyecandy :D
> 
> I played with 3D Desktop awhile back with KDE. The whole rotating desktop
> pager thing. I usually don't use more than one desktop on this PC, so it
> isn't of much practical use to me. But I agree, it is kind of neat. XGL is
> just plain slick....but still, where it may be very pretty, it doesn't
> serve much practical use for me.......Neither does the eyecandy for Aero
> for Vista. I actually expected more from MS. XGL is much slicker in the
> eyecandy department.

'Flip  mode' in Windows Vista is just one among the examples
of  eye  candy  which leads to poorer productivity.  How  is
someone  supposed  to  see the processes when  one  conceals
another  in  that stack of windows? Besides, XGL has a  nice
switcher  that  even  animates the windows  where  there  is
motion  (e.g. video). Kasbar (going back ages ago)  provides
windows  previews  and  there is also  the  window  switcher
wherein  windows  are  all  shrunk  and  spread  across  the
workspace  for user selection. Speaking of 'flip mode', such
ideas  go  a  long, long way back [1]. Linux roots?  Not  to
mention Sun's Looking Glass [2].


[1] http://insitu.lri.fr/metisse/

[2] http://www.sun.com/software/looking_glass/

[3] 3-D Desktop: http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/

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