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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.