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Maybe for Leopard?

I hope so.

Benjamindaines said:
Looks neat, the only thing I really see as an annoyance is that the windows get "stuck" to the sides of the screen and other windows.
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I love that. its perfect for OCD people. Which for some reason I am with a computer. I love the varying opacity, advanced Expose, and multiple screens. Just great.
 
I'd like to see this. Can you guys help me out. It tells me that Quicktime is missing necessary components, but I don't know which one it needs.
 
Thanks, but is there another player I can download to just play the .avi?
 
I have the flip4mac plugin installed and it played it fine.

That really is cool stuff, I'm sure we will see something like that in Leopard.
 
XGL isn't really a GUI. It's an OpenGL Xwindow which then runs "compiz" on top of it which is a composite manager. The two work together to create the effects you're seeing. The GUI is GNOME or KDE or whatever other thing you're running on linux.

The developer of XGL did say that he took some inspiration from apple in his design.

XGL is basically just linux getting hardware acceleration, something that OS X already has... so basically, the FX that compiz implements could in theory, already be done on OS X!

Sorry for the long winded response... But basically, XGL / COMPIZ is sweet. So is linux. So are Macs. I hope Apple puts more sweet visual effects into leopard as well :)
 
next time i want to watch a dvd on a cube shaped screen i'll know where to look ..... :confused: surely a relatively pointless feature?
 
mcmadhatter said:
next time i want to watch a dvd on a cube shaped screen i'll know where to look ..... :confused: surely a relatively pointless feature?
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I think it was just showing the capabilites of the virtual desktop feature.:rolleyes:
 
Pretty impressive, first time i've seen a good looking distro of linux...would be really cool to see this in leopard, looks like it will require alot of graphical power to run though,

ShadoW
 
dollystereo said:
Look at this LINUX GUI called XGL is quite impressive, is far better than OSX in style! And what can do with video is incredible.
http://people.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi
or look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xgl
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I dont think that we have to wait until Leopard comes out.
Those effects you mentioned of XGL also exists (in a way) to our beloved OS X too! :D

The desktop manager can do the CUBE trick among with other effects.

check : http://desktopmanager.berlios.de/

also check Virtue : http://virtuedesktops.sourceforge.net/
 
Yeah, this really isn't that impressive. I think most of the warbly-stretchy crap is ***** useless anyway. Any of this could be done with OS X now. Fortunately Apple has more taste than these knuckleheads.
 
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