____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 13 February 2008 11:49 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> ____/ Mark Kent on Wednesday 13 February 2008 09:03 : \____
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> Compiz-Fusion Community News for February 9, 2008: KDE 4 is in.
>>>>
>>>> ,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| The changes have taken place due to our community and our very own
>>>>| onestone who has added a slew of KDE 4 composite features to Compiz. Some
>>>>| highlights this week are:
>>>>|
>>>>| * KDE 4 Window decorator plasma integration
>>>>| * Show Mouse, and Area-Based maginification through the mag plugin
>>>>| * Wiimote integration
>>>>| * True blending of wallpapers and cubecaps
>>>> `----
>>>>
>>>>
>>
http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2008/02/11/compiz-fusion-community-news-for-february-9-2008-kde-4-is-in/
>>>>
>>>
>>> Compiz has me hooked. Of course, I still use the CLI, but in an xterm
>>> or gterm or kterm or whatever they are, but rather than pressing alt-f1
>>> etc., I press the mouse middle button and wiz the cube around, or I use
>>> the arrow keys for same.
>>
>> I gave it a spin (literally) without a GPU at home. It was smooth, but I
>> haven't learned how to enhance work with it. I only do very basic things on
>> that PC, mainly music and backups.
>>
>
> It's the cube that saves time, or makes things easier, because it removes
> the need to have to remember what's on each VT or workspace, or in the
> case of screen, in each virtual shell. In screen, c-a" brings up a
> list of VTs, and if you're smart, you've already done c-aA and labelled
> them properly.
You can designate each workspace to a task/app and then just stay consistent.
In KDE, you can also force an application to always open up (and/or stay)
in 'its own' workspace, so orientation is not an issue.
> With the cube, though, a middle-mouse click pushes the cube back,
> visible across both monitors, and you can rotate it until you get the
> faces you want, whilst being able to clearly see what's on each one.
> Up until this point, I'd not been all that convinced by GUIs, but I've
> finally seen something which *really* saves hassle, although, to be fair,
> the auto-mounting of USB devices which both Gnome and KDE support is
> also very useful.
>
> The cube is one of the capabilities you can enable, it's probably not
> enabled by default. I don't know how good it would be without a 3D
> card.
It runs okay, even on a weak machine. It's bizarre.
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