On Thursday 01 September 2005 19:37, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
I have just discovered 3ddesktop in the Ubuntu apt repositories.
It gives a wholesome 3D experience to virtual desktop switching that is not unlike (or in fact if you enable the right options in the config files, exactly like) the fast user switch in OSX
I've been a fond user of 3ddesktop myself on any distro where I GUI, and tend to have it bound to ^[tab] and ^[shift][tab] (although I've never bothered to bind it to mousewheel desktop switching).
It's very useful if you happen to use your desktops a lot - as I'll have apps like flash, photoshop and director open, working on graphical stuff which use a lot of screen real estate, it's invaluable to me to have them all laid out in the "drum" style so I can see all my desktops at once whenever I get confuzzled.
Eye-candy may be bloat to lots of people, but there's a fundamental truth that your environment's ambience affects the mind and its productivity.
In my experience, the hardware/software's functionality isn't the only reason you can earth-shift quicker on OS X with design work :)
anyway, just my $0.2