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Space vs Cube

Probably not.
But compiz fusion/beryl is open source and you might try porting it.:rolleyes:
Leopard has the Expo plugin anyway
 
no, leopard can't do that. Port it? mmmmm... its not that easy as you might think.
 
There may possibly be a transition effect in an XML file somewhere in the OS for spaces, I don't know the name or the type or what to make it too... But I am guessing by the fact that Core Animation is used in Leopard there may be a configuration hidden very deep in the OS.
 
Mac OS is Unix with a very nice GUI. Linux is the same thing, for sure there is a way to do that with Leopard but i was wondering if there is a quick update/plugin or option whatever to do that.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0BQJGMEY8

Thats mac OS with a sort of cube thing going on, maybe spaces with four sides like a cube.
 
bubble27 said:
Mac OS is Unix with a very nice GUI. Linux is the same thing, for sure there is a way to do that with Leopard but i was wondering if there is a quick update/plugin or option whatever to do that.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0BQJGMEY8

Thats mac OS with a sort of cube thing going on, maybe spaces with four sides like a cube.
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two points

1. mac osx is not in sync with latest linux libraries.
2. Apple's products have never been famous for its "options".
 
SugarMice said:
Hey guys, I was looking for the same thing after I saw this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kxDxLAjkO8 (which is a very cool video btw, check it out) and in the video is shown Spaces like the cube in Linux, so..there's gotta be a way of doing it...
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If you look closely, this is simply done by enabling 'Fast User Switching' in Account preferences. When you switch to another user it uses this cube effect.
 
Not so possible

Yes it is true that Mac OS X is Unix, with a bit more than a nice gui on top, but it is not quite possible to port Compiz because of that nice gui. You see Compiz works on the X window layer, and OS X does not use the X window system, so any port would have to be completely rewritten for mac and as Mac's gui is not open source, it is almost impossible to do so. Probably the closest thing that you could achieve is applying the window effects to programs running under X11 but you wouldn't have the cube effect anyway.
 
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