Dashboard on Linux
Tuesday, 28. August 2007, 20:14:32
Yesterday I upgraded to a new Ubuntu Linux version, named Gutsy Gibbon, it works just great(seems to work faster), even though its not even a beta version yet. After installing it all I decided to go get and compile latest version Compiz-fusion as the default one didn't work quite right. After hanging out a bit on #desktop-effects and #compiz-fusion I was pointed at this guide, which really helped me a lot in the process: http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=1985
Compiz fusion has lots of nice plugins which add some nice features and eyecandy to your desktop, just like the Magic lamp animation you can see in the screenshot below, or the Widget layer, just like in the screenshot on the right. Search youtube for "Compiz-fusion", you'll find millions of videos made by users showing its features off.
After installing all the needed stuff(see the guide) all you have to do is to enable Widget Layer plugin and use this option for it to work with opera widgets: "role=opera-widget". And that's it, you're done, though it wasn't that easy for me, Compiz was crashing for me, but with help of nice guys at #compiz-fusion-dev I managed to make a crashlog. 13 minutes after submiting it I got notified that one of the guys already wrote a fix, it was up in the git repository in few more minutes, after that I just downloaded and installed the fixed version.
That's one big plus to the Open Source community, where else would you get a bug fixed that fast?
What was your experience with Open Source software?
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The new Mac OS X (was it Panther?) has a nice feature in the dock, stacks. Well, it's basically a glorified menu but it's kinda nice and it's a good improvement over the old dock.
Why are people concentrating on making pure eye candy features instead of good improvements like that?
By zomg, # 30. August 2007, 05:38:30
By TedLovesYou, # 10. September 2007, 13:59:57
just waiting for kde4.
compiz is sure a great piece of soft!
By pfelelep, # 28. September 2007, 00:14:41