Ubuntu/Kubuntu w/ Rotating Box?

[JoeHill]

Evan Leibovitch left a post-it on the fridge:

> David Payne wrote:
> 
> > Compiz Fusion is the best (That I have 
> > [...]
> >
> > I no longer use it because it drove me nuts.  
> 
> Good to know I'm not alone. After a few weeks of trying
> Beryl/Compiz/etc. I too turned it off. The animation of 'turning the
> cube' actually slowed the existing process of moving between virtual
> desktops, which Linux users have taken for granted for many years.
> Transparent screens and windows that drag across the screen like jello
> blobs lose their novelty quickly, and I simply don't see the functional
> advantage.

I don't use the cube either, but Beryl does provide what is, for me, the
greatest map of my running applications ever: Scale. Whipping my mouse up to
the top right of the screen and instantly seeing thumbnails of all my open apps
is way cool.

The animations and transparency and such do not provide anything in the
strictly utilitarian sense, but they do give a nice feeling of depth and
presence to the desktop, in my opinion anyhow. 

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