I don't want that at all. It's ugly, and cluttered. It kind of reminds me of those stupid overly customized linux desktops you see youtube videos of. You know, the ones with the stupid, cheesey, "heavy metal" or "techno" playing in the background.
@LAY Yes, but they also make everything transparent, and every possible piece of screen real estate is covered by a obnoxious widget. If they could everything would be flashing and moving around the screen.
There's a lot of useful things that Compiz does, other than just look silly. Desktop Zoom is really handy on underpowered machines that can't throw full screen Flash. The cube is nice to set multiple workspaces - one for internet, one for email, one for development. Window Transparency is handy to look below your current window without having to move, minimize or close it.
Overall I think Compiz renders the screen far better in composited OpenGL than most drivers do in 2D mode - no screen tearing when you move windows, transitions are much smoother too.
While its tablet world topping pixel density, Tegra 2 silicon, and fresh to death OS certainly sound awesome, we had to get our grubby mitts on one to see if it's as good as its spec sheet would have us believe.
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I don't want that at all. It's ugly, and cluttered. It kind of reminds me of those stupid overly customized linux desktops you see youtube videos of. You know, the ones with the stupid, cheesey, "heavy metal" or "techno" playing in the background.
@redeyeglasses
I think you are referring to Compiz or Beryl?
That stuff has never been more than useless desktop eye-candy.
How many folks need windows that wobble or menus that bursts into flame?
@LAY Yes, but they also make everything transparent, and every possible piece of screen real estate is covered by a obnoxious widget. If they could everything would be flashing and moving around the screen.
@redeyeglasses
There's a lot of useful things that Compiz does, other than just look silly. Desktop Zoom is really handy on underpowered machines that can't throw full screen Flash. The cube is nice to set multiple workspaces - one for internet, one for email, one for development. Window Transparency is handy to look below your current window without having to move, minimize or close it.
Overall I think Compiz renders the screen far better in composited OpenGL than most drivers do in 2D mode - no screen tearing when you move windows, transitions are much smoother too.