SUSE linux – Caking on the eyecandy
Posted in Geeky by Derek at 7:07 pm
This post was published 3 years 4 months 1 day ago and its content may not be valid anymore.Talk about gui eye candy. Check out the multiple desktops and window behavior for applications which “bleed” over into alternate views. OS X looks almost juvenile in comparison. I can’t comment on actual usability though. I’m beginning to think the convenience of rotating desktops will soon be counter productive.
yea impressive eye candy but you cant help thinking that its all just that, eye candy. does it really improve or impede usability?
the other comment i would say is that the whole ‘feel’ seems rather cold and industrial.
thinking about that i think they should bring back the smiling face on start-up in osx just like the good ol’ days.
ive tried suse linux 10.3 or 10.2 i forget. but its sweet! one problem is, im a linux n00b so i acually dont know how to use the damn thing…i tried to make it look like a mac omg i love macs! i uninstalled it though
as for usability, im not sure. i only used it for web browsing and music. thats about it. also the media player sux, Real Player’s helix engine doesnt work right.
typo linus=linux
ok, I seriously want that… now. I’ve never used linux before, but I want that. Could anyone point me to where I can get some tips/instructions for dual booting suse and xp with all those goodies?
That eyecandy is not exclusively in Linux, the “eyecandy” is called XGL which is developed by Novell. It can be used on basically any linux based operating system. I have it running on an Ubuntu machine. Plus, theres alot more user support with Ubuntu so I’d recommend Googling Ubuntu and XGL and you’ll find lots of guides on how to get it to work.
Guy
Edit: My first sentence meant to read “That eyecandy is not exclusively in SuSe”
Typo corrected. I was going to try and play things off by saying “s” for smooth linux distro but I decided against.
Yeah that is XGL and the funny thing is,that you guys already reported about it.So now your basicly reporting it,again.
You’re right, we have mentioned something about XGL in the past. A video capture by Michael of Whalesalad.com. However, the clip above looks to be a lot more mature (feature wise) than the previous clip.
A recent how-to for xgl on ubuntu here: a href=”http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=916&page=2″>http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=916&page=2. Similar (but less professional) video demonstration of some of the features (including the rotating desktop) here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuW9SiA8hNo&search=xgl%20wobbly.
Well,except the water-effect,I can’t see anything new in this Video at all.But damn do I wish i had a Laptop powerfull enough to run Ubuntu XGL on it.
Using it right now in Ubuntu. Been using it since Compiz and Xgl packages and HowTos have been released.
Custom versions of Compiz are being developped by a community at http://www.compiz.net with extended features and such.
http://www.novell.com/linux
You’ll find alot of info there and where to get downloads of Suse 10.1 and SLED 10 and such.