i trashed my semi-broken gentoo install for Ubuntu Dapper Drake Alpha Flight 6 yesterday, and figured what the hell, and installed xgl and compiz to get the uber cool eye candy.
i am not gonna put up any pics because they are all over google, but i must make a few comments.
thanks to a howto on ubuntuforums installation was rather simple, even a total n00b can do it. a reboot later you get your eye candy.
the wobble effect (when you move/resize/grab windows, they wobble like jello) and the cube (desktop pager) are my favorite features. over all the resouce use is not much more than just your stock x config with gnome. just for the fun factor i also set up glmatrix screensaver as my wallpaper. now i do NOT recommend doing that. it looks hot as hell, but when i did it my CPU use spiked up from ~5% to ~80% so although still quite usable, there is lag with that feature enabled. window transparancy among other features is also pretty l33t. also the famous geanie effect from osx is there as well when you minimize a window to task bar. another "good" feature (i personally never use it, but mac users swear by it) is expose which is also there. press F12 and you got it going. with addition of brightside you can configure one of your corners (top right recommended) that when you move your mouse there, its the same effect as pressing F12. so you don't even need the keyboard to enable expose.
paired with all the other great user-friendly features that Dapper offers i think Ubuntu is really a step ahead of the competition of bringing linux to the user market. as much as we hate to admit it, but eye candy is part of the "user friendly" equation.
in fact here it is:
hidden terminal + usplash (boot and halt) + xgl/compiz + graphical config tools = user
i am not gonna put up any pics because they are all over google, but i must make a few comments.
thanks to a howto on ubuntuforums installation was rather simple, even a total n00b can do it. a reboot later you get your eye candy.
the wobble effect (when you move/resize/grab windows, they wobble like jello) and the cube (desktop pager) are my favorite features. over all the resouce use is not much more than just your stock x config with gnome. just for the fun factor i also set up glmatrix screensaver as my wallpaper. now i do NOT recommend doing that. it looks hot as hell, but when i did it my CPU use spiked up from ~5% to ~80% so although still quite usable, there is lag with that feature enabled. window transparancy among other features is also pretty l33t. also the famous geanie effect from osx is there as well when you minimize a window to task bar. another "good" feature (i personally never use it, but mac users swear by it) is expose which is also there. press F12 and you got it going. with addition of brightside you can configure one of your corners (top right recommended) that when you move your mouse there, its the same effect as pressing F12. so you don't even need the keyboard to enable expose.
paired with all the other great user-friendly features that Dapper offers i think Ubuntu is really a step ahead of the competition of bringing linux to the user market. as much as we hate to admit it, but eye candy is part of the "user friendly" equation.
in fact here it is:
hidden terminal + usplash (boot and halt) + xgl/compiz + graphical config tools = user
