Vista, etc.

[Jamon Camisso]

Simon wrote:
> In Compiz/Beryl's defense, that Mac-ish bouncy icon bar is a separate
> project, and you can turn off any other effects you find nauseating,
> there's a modular plugin system with plenty of options.  I've only
> ever used compiz, and it was about 6 months ago, but I'm sure that one
> can find a decent reason to run Compiz or Beryl as a WM.

Such that Xorg 7 has AIGLX built in and active by default in many 
distros (Fedora, Ubuntu). In fact, Fedora Core 6 features a simple 2 
check box dialog to turn effects on and off. For those easily nauseated, 
they've at least done the courteous thing and made sure the effects (not 
the Xorg module) are off by default.

I for one have sold a few people on Ubuntu and Fedora on the basis of 
the nifty Beryl effects, so like them or not, they are impressive and 
fun for many in the under 30 crowd :p Even to the Mac OSX fans--one 
friend, a New Media geek--switched to Ubuntu on his new MacBook... go 
figure.

> On 12/21/06, Kevin Cozens <kcozens-qazKcTl6WRFWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> Aaron Vegh wrote:
>> > For those who didn't know about Beryl, this YouTube video tells all:
>> >
>> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ZtcxHUSDQ
>> >
>> > I think we'll all be in trouble when we confuse nifty eye candy for a
>> > truly usable system. It looks better for about 15 minutes, then you
>> > get annoyed.
>>
>> Interesting. Its the first YouTube video I've been able to watch. Only 
>> one
>> minor hesitation near the start then the res ot if it played smoothly.
>>
>> That Beryl desktop looked fine for a moment when it first booted. The 
>> toolbar
>> across the bottom reminded me of what I've been on the Mac's at a 
>> local store.
>> Once the person started interating with it, it all started to look rather
>> sick. I don't mean sick as in good but as in nauseating.
>>
>> The web page says "Above all else, the project seeks to listen to and 
>> respond
>> to the requests of the user base." so I want to know who is the user 
>> base?
>> Mostly kids who are spend most of their time playing games?
>>
>> I'd like to know how one gets the Beryl desktop so I can be sure to 
>> stay far
>> away from it. I can think of better ways to make use of CPU/GPU 
>> processing
>> abilities.
>>
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>> Cheers!
>>
>> Kevin.
>>
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