Also, this is what I was talking about with that Xgl post. This is a screenshot of my desktop, mid-rotate.
Xgl is really nice… all the eyecandy things are actually really useful in terms of giving you feedback about what you’re doing. And conceptually, having a sort of spatial representation of the virtual desktop paradigm is extremely useful for me in knowing where I am in my plethora of applications.
I turned down and turned off a bunch of the extras like water effects and blurring because I don’t really need them. I had transparent windows for awhile, but I realized it was really hurting my productivity cause it was harder to read terminals and whatnot.
At this point I’m mainly using the open/closer and max/minimize animations, desktop cube, and expose-like switcher. Still poking around with all the options. If you’re a linux user, I highly recommend checking it out.
