__/ [ 7 ] on Sunday 04 February 2007 06:00 \__
> I downloaded the very latest beta release of Ubuntu (Feisty Fawn)...
> http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/feisty/herd-3/
>
> Then I installed Beryl using the 3 click guide which links from here...
> http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Install_Beryl_on_Ubuntu
>
> And so after 3 clicks, suddenly I have Beryl up and running on my PC!!!
>
> Fsking 'ell!!! What the @#*(&???
> The boot up speed is just incredible.
> (Its faster than any windopz products out there)
>
> Just can't give up using it now!
>
> With Beryl, set skydome background to a yellow+black
> gradient (so it blends with the ubuntu colors), set the cube to nearly
> transparent (and took the caps off) and now have 3D cube that I can see on
> all sides. If things are running on one side of the cube like progress
> bars, I can see them all. Couldn't stop playing with the flaming window
> options.
> And now that I have it doing all of what it does, I don't want
> to give it up!
>
> Totally astonished at the progress...want more features!
> e.g.
> 1. option to leave the cube where it is when it is rotated
> 2. Objects other than a cube - eg sphere, dodecahedron, or extend the cube
> to a drum shape to add more sides.
> 3. A plain perspective without cube
>
> Lately I've been using 8 virtual screens at a time
> and this is going up.
> I see Beryl now as a way of cutting down on the excesses
> and increasing productivity on the desktop.
I think that in order to take advantage of this full 3D, OpenGL-accelerated
environment, one would have to give up on the mouse and keyboard. When you
get something like a Wiimote or a glove, for example, the third dimension
makes a lot of sense. For modelling software like Maya the benefits can be
astounding. It's originally a UNIX application. Blender 3D and AutoCAD can
be considered as well.
Other types of applications can benefits from this as well, but the UI needs
to be changed radically and there's training (and a mental barrier)
involved. Think, for instance, about a file manager where the tree levels
are the Z-dimension while the X- and Y-dimensions are used to render the
contents. You can then easily (and quickly) grab files from one level to
another.
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