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Expose Metacity With Expocity

Posted by timothy on from the obvious-comparisons dept.

ubiquitin writes "expocity is a project to patch metacity and lets you switch between applications in the metacity window manager. After pressing a keystroke, your window manager will present you an overview of all open windows and you can select the window, you want to switch to, visually. For an idea on how this works, check out this screenshot."

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  1. Re:a Better headline would be by KamuSan · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Yeah, good. Maybe now I'll fire up Linux again, instead of just working with OS X. If you have worked with Expose, you don't want anything else. It feels so natural.

    Don't want to sound like flamebait, but it seems to me like lots of OSS projects just copy things that others (Apple, even MS) invented. This, the whole Windows L&F, Mono.
    I'm NOT an Apple zealot or apologist, I actually like Linux more than OS X (and don't like Windows at all) and have used Linux for far more than I used OS X.
    So, please, show me some URLs to OSS projects that you think are really innovative and are not copies of commercial initiatives. Please restore my faith in OSS ;-)

  2. Re:a Better headline would be by quigonn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Well, basically everybody copies features from everyone else. That's business.

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    A monkey is doing the real work for me.
  3. Re:My 2 Cents. by nuffle · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I am here to tell you that is exactly why Linux is losing the desktop race.

    Please don't tell people who are volunteering their time writing open source applications that their time would be better spent elsewhere. The reason Linux is as close to where it is on the desktop is because people have worked on the sort of things that interest them. You may be right: Maybe some other project would be more objectively useful. But on the other hand, if you were in charge, deciding who got to work on what project, nobody would want to work on open-source anymore, and Linux would suck pretty quick.

    So let people do what they want, even if you think it's dumb. It's a community effort that is strong because people can work when, how, and on what they want.

    Do you hang out at neighborhood cleanups telling people they should be volunteering their time at soup kitchens instead?

  4. Classic example by Sanity · · Score: 5, Insightful
    And here we see a perfect example of the attitude that is holding back Linux on the desktop: "Why would anyone need X, I can do that with Y" where X is an easy-to-use feature, and Y is a complicated way to achieve the same thing that most desktop users would never adopt.

    The average desktop user barely understands the concept of files and folders - do you honestly expect them to be organized enough to arrange their programs into virtual desktops as you have done?

    This project is exactly what Linux should be doing - assimilating the best features from its competitors on the desktop. I just wish that Linux was also innovating on the desktop, rather than just following in the footsteps of others (and no, themability is not an innovation so far as usability is concerned).