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- frsrblch, on 10/10/2007, -7/+51What I'd like to see is, rather than having a flat desktop, the background is an actual rendered scene. So rather than a picture of a field, you get a field rendered in real time, complete with grass, trees, birds, weather and other cool stuff like that. Then, with that Compiz/Beryl Cube thing, you could have each face opening up like a portal to that environment. Damn, that'd be cool.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+27A great idea in concept, but I wouldn't count on seeing it any time soon. The biggest problem of course would be performance degradation resulting from your beautifully rendered Wombat who reads you your mail in real-time. Or in many peoples case, the naked chick who informs you you haven't been on pr0n in the last 5 minutes. Cheers to the future!
- Scyth3, on 10/10/2007, -1/+18Wow, his site reminded me of Geocities for a minute....
- cry0x, on 10/10/2007, -4/+20There's something that people like you don't realize. There is not one single development team that works on every aspect of the kernel and userland. There are literally thousands of dev teams working on their own projects. Some work on drivers, some work on eye candy. Some work on better multimedia programs, others work on office utilties. When one team releases its product, don't bitch and moan about how the project you wanted isn't completed yet. The Open Source community is tired of ungrateful ***** like you.
- ShinGouki, on 10/10/2007, -7/+21i dont CARE about eyecandy, i want working drivers for my scanner and Printer ( HP)
- anachronoks, on 10/10/2007, -4/+18Blogspam. http://thelinuxmovement.blogspot.com/2007/07/new-compiz-fusion-effects.html
- pw378, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12Yes. That is all Google has sponsored development of...
Oh wait.. there was also these...
AbiSource (ideas)
Adium (ideas)
The Apache Software Foundation (ideas)
Aqsis Team (ideas)
Ardour (ideas)
ArgoUML (ideas)
Audacious Media Player (ideas)
Bazaar (ideas)
BBC Research (ideas)
Beagle (ideas)
Blender Foundation (ideas)
Boost C++ (ideas)
BZFlag (ideas)
Center for the Study of Complex Systems (CSCS), University of Michigan (ideas)
CLAM ( at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra) (ideas)
The Codehaus (ideas)
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (ideas)
Coppermine Photo Gallery (ideas)
coresystems GmbH (ideas)
Creative Commons (ideas)
Crystal Space (ideas)
Daisy CMS (ideas)
Debian (ideas)
Detached Solutions (ideas)
Django (Lawrence-Journal World) (ideas)
Dojo Foundation (ideas)
Drupal (ideas)
DSpace (ideas)
Eclipse (ideas)
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Etherboot Project (ideas)
eXist (ideas)
FANN - The Fast Artificial Neural Network Library (ideas)
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FFmpeg (ideas)
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FreeBSD (ideas)
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Freevo (ideas)
Gallery (ideas)
GCC (ideas)
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Gentoo Foundation (ideas)
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Git Development Community (ideas)
GNOME (ideas)
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Google (ideas)
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Handhelds.org (ideas)
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hugin / panotools (ideas)
IEM - Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz (ideas)
ikiwiki (ideas)
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Internet2 (ideas)
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Joomla! (ideas)
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KDE (ideas)
Lanka Software Foundation (ideas)
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LLVM Compiler Infrastructure (ideas)
MacPorts (ideas)
maemo (ideas)
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National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), Phyloinformatics Group (ideas)
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Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University (ideas)
Rockbox (ideas)
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Samba (ideas)
SCons Foundation: Next-Generation Build Tool (ideas)
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SIP Communicator (ideas)
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Sparse (ideas)
Squeak (ideas)
SquirrelMail (ideas)
Subversion (ideas)
Swarm Development Group (ideas)
Swathanthra Malayalam Computing (ideas)
Taste (ideas)
Thousand Parsec (ideas)
Ubuntu (ideas)
Umit Project (ideas)
VideoLAN (ideas)
Vim (ideas)
Wikimedia Foundation (ideas)
The Wine Project (ideas)
WinLibre (ideas)
WordPress (ideas)
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X.Org (ideas)
Xiph.org Foundation (ideas)
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XWiki (ideas)
Zope Foundation, Inc (ideas) - stupergenius, on 10/10/2007, -0/+12So the last time you set up linux was in 1996?
- themuffinman, on 10/10/2007, -1/+12There's something strangely humorous about claiming blogspam and then linking to blogspot...
- Nohbudy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10If HP didn't have drivers for your hardware for your linux box, then why don't you return the printer/scanner and buy a different brand?
Vote with your money, not with ear-less complaints stuffed in the corners of the internet. - geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+10Really short:
"Service Temporarily Unavailable
The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later." - krinn, on 10/10/2007, -0/+7Google has actually sponsored quite a number of interesting open source projects...
http://code.google.com/soc/2007/ - morphir, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6The thing is, it's not that easy. Aquarium is just another hard coded cube. And that is the fundamental problem with compiz design, it's just a cube.
and...
think about performance later, if you can make i happen, then you can allways optimize the code or make an api. And don't forget our hardware turns faster and faster by each year or so.. - Julolidine, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5Whether or not this is garbage doesn't really bother me. However, Google getting more and more involved in Linux development is hugely significant. If there's one company that can single handedly make the ever receding "year of linux" a reality in the publics mind, it is Google.
- OBKenobi, on 10/10/2007, -2/+7Um.... it's a rather short article, isn't it?
- patthew, on 10/10/2007, -0/+5That website looks like it could use some eye-candy.
- airmind, on 10/10/2007, -1/+6There is already the aquarium plugin.
Vista has something similar, but it can only play videos. It would be quite easy to implement that in Beryl (doesnt it exist already?).
The question is, how much performance are you willing to lose only to have an animated wallpaper that you see only a few times a day?
I think KDE's Plasmoid might be a much better idea for the desktop, and you could have all the eyecandy you want. - sumasshu, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4Compiz is not "just a cube." The cube is a plugin for Compiz, one of many Plugins you can use to render the virtual desktops.
- joe90210, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4this thing is hideous, honestly what was the point of this?
- JamesTurk, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4yes, have you? I figured the Ron Paul reference would make it over the top enough so that nobody would get confused
- jeremymccurdy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+4If you don't like it, you can always exclude Linux stories in your preferences.
- Stemp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3«sponsored development of...» ?
- jeremymccurdy, on 10/10/2007, -0/+3If you're going to fight Blogspam with Blogspam, how about using the official Compiz Fusion blog instead?
http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/ - richardiscool, on 10/10/2007, -1/+4Hmm...
My HP Printer/Scanner experience:
1) Download 130mb driver bloatware from slow HP FTP server, complete with a load of ***** apps I don't want.
2) Run install file... wait...
3) Wait...
4) Go through initial setup wizard
5) Wait whilst it installs
6) Gets to 100%, then a new one pens and it starts again
7) Asks me to plug in printer, doesn't recognise it for 5 minutes
8) Restart
Total time: 45 minutes (I did it yesterday)
Ubuntu:
1) Plug in printer
2) Go to printers and make it the default
Total time: Under a minute. - xswag, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2I think he is being sarcastic.
- Tenoq, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Well it wouldn't be hard to implement the type of occlusion algorithms used in 3D gaming to minimise the performance impact when you weren't actually looking at the wallpaper. That said, your are still talking about using a significant amount of computer resources to have a real-time rendered scene. It'd be like running a game in the background, always. Modern PCs would be fine, but older hardware would struggle, for sure.
- SuperBloomie, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/2007/07/25/compiz-fusion-community-news-edition-9-for-july-23-2007-breaking-news-forums-posts-go-down-by-half-due-to-a-lack-of-posts-asking-for-aquariums/
it was on the page anachronoks linked :) - geminitojanus, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Crap, this isn't the one I was looking for.. but somewhere out there the developer's blogging, if someone can find his blog, it'd be the only one any of us should care about (it's the Primary source).
- HapiDjus, on 10/10/2007, -1/+3repost...
- Qriztof, on 10/10/2007, -4/+6Wow. I'm sold. Someone direct me to a free Linux distro, so that I can make use of this groundbreaking tool.
- h1web, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2well, e17 has animated backgrounds and some of them look really good ..
- kazamx, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2LOL, them were the days
- Stemp, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2Call HP !! Ask them what they are doing for your scanner and printer !
- cry0x, on 10/10/2007, -0/+2u r so 1337
- Jammerdelray, on 10/10/2007, -3/+4Mna that site is butt ugly
- Qriztof, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1I was being really, really sarcastic.
*Installs some drivers and uses a printer* - philippbock, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2And I used to think my Mac had more eye candy than I needed… The aeroplane one’s kinda cool though: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1184/876436263_91a537d6af_b.jpg
- Ecco2, on 10/10/2007, -1/+2Have you heard of Humor ?
- HonoredMule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1bury
- HonoredMule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1Actually, the question ISN'T "how much performance are you willing to lose" but rather "how much power do you have to spare?" I'm sure there's a very respectable number of people for whom the answer is "enough for a high detail, low interactivity (physics, input processing like that aforementioned reading wombat) scene that's just there to be looked at, WITHOUT noticeable performance loss." This should be especially likely, given how little power is actually needed by modern standards JUST to render some geometry, texture, and lighting. I would expect, for example, that my 7800 GT could handle a "forest box" with reasonably high settings. and maybe even a little vertex fog and sunlight rays through the trees. It's really not that hard.
- inactive, on 10/10/2007, -2/+3Damn it just link to the source next time.
- HonoredMule, on 10/10/2007, -0/+1You wouldn't even need to do the algorithms yourself. Assuming the plugin uses the OpenGL library to render its scene, that's already covered. All you have to do is define the scene.
And of course, this is Linux. The question for something extraneous shouldn't be "can EVERYONE enjoy it, but can ANYONE enjoy it." Heck, I'd happily contribute work toward this to compiz fusion myself...and I rarely even use Linux at all. My enjoyment would come from the development process and making something really cool on one of my desktops. - chriskeyes, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1It is true though, right? I'm not trying to rebel or be a nasty fanboy, but it is true. Compared to most sites, Digg has a wide use of open source/Linux stories hitting the front page at a faster rate than most other news headlines. It kinda surprises me.
- fmorel90, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1Same here. The CDs that came with my Photosmart all-in-one took hours and installed useless, bloated programs on WinXP. In Ubuntu, I went to printers, searched for printers on network, specified the type of printer, and it was installed!
- vonskippy, on 10/10/2007, -10/+10Google has billions and this lame ass useless plugin is the best they could afford to fund?
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=yawn&btnG=Search+Images&gbv=2 - WarcraftJunkie, on 10/10/2007, -1/+1If you have x86 hardware, then here you go. (and how would you possiably not?)
http://www.mininova.org/tor/666462
your welcome. - Nohbudy, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Sure...
white box linux! http://whiteboxlinux.org/
(you never heard of it, and neither did I.) - kazamx, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1Thats alot of ideas, but what did they actually do?
- daftman, on 10/10/2007, -2/+1It's been tried, done and died. Microsoft attempted that with Microsoft Bob
The problem is, it might be cool for nerds but business users want to click once to open their program, not navigate through WoW like interface -
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