What is Digg?Sponsored by Sony Pictures
Adam Lambert sings the 2012 theme song, “Time for Miracles” view!
whowillsurvive2012.com - Watch the Adam Lambert music video for the 2012 theme song. See 2012, in theaters Nov 13
36 Comments
- shrewduser, on 10/12/2007, -1/+51Linux is getting pretty damn amazing pretty damn fast, more and more people are crossing over as user friendliness and flashiness takes over (and then discovering the other benefits like stability and performance / power)
i can't wait to see desktop plug ins which respond to the music I'm playing and embed visuals in the desktop etc :) (its coming) - ChrisRX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39This isn't a xgl/compiz plugin, it's a complete seperate app. Macslow is known for experimenting with opengl and cairo a lot so maybe it is hardware accelerated.
- junkalam, on 10/12/2007, -3/+33@ shrewduser
I totally agree. Its only a matter of time before the desktop experience on Linux surpasses Vista & maybe even OSX (if not already). People always bitched that Linux only mirrored the desktop experience of other OSes, but now we are seeing a lot of innovation & originality from the FOSS community. - drag, on 10/12/2007, -0/+14Yes it's OpenGL accelerated. Being able to move objects around like that without hardware acceleration wouldn't be practical.
> I wonder how XGL fits into this, if at all.
Not realy. You can run it as part of a 3-D desktop environment (AIGLX is much preferable to XGL nowadays and it's built in by default. The only reason you need to run XGL nowadays is if your stuck with propriatory ATI drivers) , but it can work perfectly fine without it.
I strongly suggest that if you want to use lowfat and you'd like to be aviable in future releases of Ubuntu or other distributions that you donate a small amount of money to MacSlow in order to allow him to afford to spend more time on Lowfat.
BTW this is not the first product that he has made for the Linux desktop. Another example is Cairo-Dock, which is/was a vector based, opengl accelerated OS X dock clone for the Linux desktop which has since split off into it's own project called Gnome-Dock.
You can find that at http://www.gnome-dock.org/trac
Not to be confused with Kiba-Dock, which is a dock with physics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VekgyKQoTeM
Compiz/Gnome-dock has kinda fallen off in development since it was always just mostly a hack/learning tool for lowfat, but it's nice non-the-less. - linkinpark342, on 10/12/2007, -0/+13completely correct, AFAIK this has nothing to do with Compiz. In fact, it doesn't look like that youtube has compiz running at all... Here's macslow's site: http://macslow.thepimp.net/?page_id=18
- sephiroth4, on 10/12/2007, -6/+18shut up.
- Iwantawii, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19I'm a mac user and have used the OSX interface for 5 years, and recently put Ubuntu Ultimate Edition on it with Beryl pre-installed on a side machine. I can honestly say it is very very close to what OSX offers in terms of manipulating windows on the screen. The hot corners can show the desktop, invoke "exposé"', and use a (not pre-installed with UUE) Wall plugin with similar functionality to OSX Leapord's Pages. Everything feels very natural here as a mac user.
- mooninite, on 10/12/2007, -8/+19Except that you can customize each and every one of those actions on Linux while you're stuck with what Steve Jobs wants on OS X.
Example: The hot corners don't have to be hot corners. You can assign a key map for them.
Customization is far greater with Compiz/Beryl. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9for the last time, BBcode doesn't work on digg!
- shinda, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8"shut up."
- sephiroth4 - fiveoaks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Needs more touchscreen.
- mraustin1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Holy crap. I've been waiting for him to release this code. Now that he has I don't know what to do.
This is very exciting. - geminitojanus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5In fact, it wasn't running. MacSlow's an active Cairo developer and one of the few developers working in Linux who's trying to push "glitzy graphics" to the desktop. He's developed quite a few tricks for making applications look damned sexy, and this is the project he wants to finish but that takes forever (experimental UIs typically do).
Some of his other toy applications (Cairo-clock for example) do require a compositor of some kind, however. - KillerJ59J, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Maybe they are requesting a feature in a strange way?
- LordVoldemort, on 10/12/2007, -5/+8"Hey, mooninite, can I use your computer to look something up real quick?"
"Sure, my Lord"
...
"Hey! Why do hundreds of porn websites pop up when I'm in a hot corner!"
Seriously,
You can customize the hot corners on a mac too. However, generality is often a euphemism for uselessness. - randeepjalli0, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6I personally would love to see something like this on my desktop, then again I'm just a lowly user ;).
- crazybrit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yeah, hot corners/keys are customizable on a Mac too.
- fivestarsoul, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4It would be cool if you could create folders by right clicking--it gives a whole new concept of organizing your pictures-- instead of a picture folder, you'd just have a stack of pictures based on tags or something-- and on your desktop would just be a stack of pictures! Tada!
- mfearby, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That video could have been half as long if we didn't have to stare at a demonstration of the same feature three times over.
- linkinpark342, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4This is great and all but... how does this have anything to do with Lowfat?
- link_36p, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@geminitojanus
Only if you don't want it to appear in an ugly box. - schestowitz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+6Looks like BumpTop. I wonder how XGL fits into this, if at all. Maybe it's hardware-accelerated.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oldie but goodie
- EdLesMann, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"People always bitched that Linux only mirrored the desktop experience of other OSes, but now we are seeing a lot of innovation & originality from the FOSS community"
Normally I would agree 100%, however, I don't know if this fits. To me this seems a little like a few features in suns Looking Glass which was demo'd in 2002 and it looks a WHOLE LOT like bump top. I do not know a lot about the details or implementaions of the these products, but compairing this video to bumptops and sun's old demo they look very similar. I don't have the link for sun's demo, but here is bumptops http://youtube.com/watch?v=M0ODskdEPnQ
I just am curious to know if this was original thought or influenced by bumptop / sun. Regardless I am still looking forward to this feature because I know I will use it. - azote, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0here is some demo of it at the end of the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG8pWXprnaw - clickwir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1I see thong! So hot. :p
- mccord, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1but... not all of us have seen this before!
if nobody cared the story would not be on the frontpage. - mercurysquad, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3This is the 3rd time this has been on the frontpage since september (when I started visiting digg). And don't pull the "not all of us have seen this before" argument.. that doesn't apply to TV re-runs e.g., why should it apply to continuous repeated stories on digg? Maybe I should digg up the video of windows 98 BSOD'ing on bill gates and post that..
- Tyr7BE, on 10/12/2007, -4/+3Sorry, meant to reply to a thread. Why can't you delete posts?
- tpodr, on 10/12/2007, -6/+3What's the big deal? So some guy has a bunch of photos of him and his friends in Paris. What were they busy doing? Surrendering! And what is with all the zooming and spinning around with the photos. I never got a chance to look at the cute chicks that much.
- drlha, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Only here would a Mac user complementing Linux be dugg down, and then a completely inaccurate reply be dugg up.
- PoptartKing, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2edit: ^^^^^^ ahaha that's totally a valid rebuffal
seconded so hard
I'll be sitting here with eog as an image viewer and metacity as a window manager, you guys have fun I guess. - migla, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2Can you make windows wobble/burn/explode on a mac?
- searayman, on 10/12/2007, -6/+2@shrewduser
there already are things for Linux that respond to what music you are listening too. There is a dock liek the mac osx docc but called awn, it if for linux and the music playre icon on the dock will change to the songs album art of witch you are listenign too.
check out that link:
http://awn.wetpaint.com/page/Rhythmbox+Plugin - ahawks, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2This looks pointless to me. It encourages disorganization, just like that horrible "cluttered desktop" thing, whatever it was called.
Consider:
- we use thumbnails with digital pictures because it's digital and we have the ability to shrink/enlarge images, unlike with film
- we use thumbnails so we can see lots of images at once, and then pick one to view large
"Stacking" images is just silly. - rediculous, on 10/12/2007, -17/+5doesn't look that useful. Pictures go zooming around and what not.
like compiz/xgl, it's mostly novelty, not a broad leap in functionality... although I do feel like the "cubed" desktop is helpful.
The OSX people seem to actually fix problems people have with UIs, not just make them "neater looking"
Browsing Digg on your phone just got easier with our enhancements to the 
© Digg Inc. 2009
— Content created and posted by Digg users is