Impress Your Friends With A 3D Desktop Pager

xiando writes "3D-Desktop is a window pager for Linux. It works with any window manager and the screenshots look very impressive. The idea is to allow you to look at all your virtual desktops in different 3D views."

Comments

Nice once and then you ditch it unless you like XP

[SmallFurryCreature]

This kinda thing is like the Windows XP skin. Removed in a few seconds by anyone who knows what they are doing. Why? Because it wastes time and desktop space. Those extra thick borders take up way more space and those scrolling menus take time to deploy wich if you are using your computer anywhere near serious is just a waste.

Same with this 3D pager crap. So now I got to sit and watch a 2-3 second animation each time I switch? Yippie!

Seriously who of the linux users really has the time for this? I am all for eye candy but not at the cost of either my working speed or taking up valuable desktop space.

I kinda like the way Enlightenment does it where you can drag a desktop over another and see them both at once partially although I have now switched the XFCE4 for its speed.

There may be a use for 3D on the desktop but so far nobody seems to have found it. About the only thing I can imagine is to go to 3D since you can then use the graphics cards power and offload the poor cpu.

The problem with most new gadgets including suns attempt is that they dare not break the current desktop design (because that would break all current application) and truly design a new interface.