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Impress Your Friends With A 3D Desktop Pager

Posted by timothy on from the eyecandy dept.

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."

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  1. Requirements + more by viniosity · · Score: 4, Insightful
    This looks very cool - I wonder what the system requirements are besides accelerated video? Anybody using this yet that would like to chime in on it?

    As much as some people like to bad-mouth eye-candy, it's one of the reasons I've been able to swtich so many people from Windows. First you 'Wow' them with the eye-candy and then you tell them about the stability and lack of viruses.. 9/10 times the next question is 'why don't more people use it.' Eventually they feel like they know a secret and buy a mac. Likewise, this would be a nice 'wow' for people looking to introduce the layman to gnu/linux.

  2. Re:well... by jeif1k · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Except that that wasn't the first time. This kind of visualization comes from Xerox PARC and is called "perspective wall". The idea is that the tilted views off to the side give you some context without taking up too much space.

    Looks like Apple is still getting their ideas from Xerox PARC, even 20 years after the "original" Macintosh.

  3. Preformance by El+Icaro · · Score: 2, Insightful

    How much proformance does this suck out of the graphic card? What about those of us who can't configure 3D acceleration because ati can't release decent drivers? I think this need some time until there are drivers/modules/whataver that make life on linux simpler. Linux IS ready for the desktop.. it is just not ready for the avg. user.

  4. Re:*yawn* by rhettoric · · Score: 2, Insightful

    It's not that I am against experimentation or even eye candy. In fact some of my favorite projects aren't exactly the most productive things in the world (K++ is a good example). However, these projects don't make a pretense of productivity.

    What I'm criticizing isn't the fact that someone implemented a "cool looking" idea, but that so many users are touting it as an incredible aid to productivity, an thus a reason to convert to linux.

    I see you're point, though. Having people say "oooh, that's awesome!" is an excellent marketing strategy. But I'd rather not have the feature-bloat in the OS.

  5. Re:That's OK... by kwr2k · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I've noticed that whenever any interesting GUI addition to KDE is mentioned, GNOME zealots get in the way and start deriding it by emphasizing how GNOME is simpler ... and yet, GNOME claims to be more GUIier than KDE ... I guess once GNOME has its own 3d pager, they will say it is being done in the most HIG way and its the most innovative and all that crap. Seems like GNOME has copied the entire book over from Microsoft on how to claim everything they copy as the "First and the Best"!!