http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0ZtcxHUSDQ

Thats very cool

A guy at work rigged this up early this year when hoary was still the main release but at that time it was a bitch to get running properly. This is all going to be native with the release of Edgy which is due in just over two weeks (26th Oct). I don't believe it's running by default but is easy enough to switch on.

That makes me shudder, thinking that's how all OSes might work (Vista?!@#). I want my OS to be lean and mean!

3D hardware accelerated desktop!

ALl those windows must have been constraint based meshes using verlet mechanics or something to get the cloth and ropey effects

I strongly doubt it

as much as it pains me to say, im with trog

id be turning all that s*** off immediately

I had aiglx and compiz going on the Breezy beta and it rocked - very sweet. And no slowdown in computing at all or even things like WoW under Cedega.

I've heard Vista sucks the dong though - apparently games will be 25% slower because of the 3D desktops.

So other than the eyecandy which is also most a blatant ripped off of Mac OSX what so good about it? I can't see if improved my computing productivity at all. It's sure nice to look at though but I found myself fast forwarding the vid cause it's pretty boring after a while.

...still kinda cool though

Its just eye candy, I don't think they developed it to improve productivity.

While some of the XGL effects are admittedly a bit much (wobbly windows wtf??) some of it looks pretty sweet and in a world where people have $800 video cards which only get used 25% of the time it makes some sense to harness them.

What i'm waiting for is for someone to truly re-think how we approach our computers, making the same interface with an extra dimension doesn't cut it IMHO.

I don't mind some eye-candy if the animations are VERY quick and don't noticeably impact desktop response nor performance.

After looking at that vid, I'd probably speed up the animations by at least 3x.

While some of the XGL effects are admittedly a bit much (wobbly windows wtf??) some of it looks pretty sweet and in a world where people have $800 video cards which only get used 25% of the time it makes some sense to harness them.

Actually you don't really need a video card all that powerful to do all that stuff well. Because it's linux, you'd want a Nvidia card over an ATI card because the ATI driver suck in Linux (at least under Unbuntu, don't know about other distro's) though they do work ok for this. A 6600GT will quite happily do all that stuff you saw in the video and you can get them now for $120-$150.

I had all that running on the unstable version of Dapper on a 6600GT and it all ran flawlessly.

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because the ATI driver suck in Linux

...like they don't suck balls in Win32?

I want this desktop..

^^^
heh I thought people use computers to store stuff precisely to avoid the real world mess problem where you sort stuff in "piles" and just gets buries in piles so deep you can't find it LOL. Looks cool but, to me an utterly useless idea.

I concur.

It seems like alot of effort has been put into it though. I like to think it could be used somewhere.

That desktop should be coverd with DVDs,Cds and porn to properly represent a real users computer.. :)