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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    You can find a deb package for ubuntu edgy here:

    http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...hlight=metisse

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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    Interesting to see the orange colour and that it was on a gnome desktop. Have Mandriva followed the rest of the corporate aimed distros and gone to gnome as default? I am sure when I tried Mandrake a few years ago they were heavily KDE focussed.

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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    Doesn't look incredibly useful. Beryl with scale and showdesktop fulfills my needs just fine. "Cutting" through windows seems like more trouble than just slamming your mouse into a corner and having all the windows sprint offscreen.

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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    Mandriva is still alive? I copy-paste with only two clicks (alt+tab) is your friend. Doesn't seem all that useful and honestly there was no reason to develop another WM for that, a plug in for Beryl/Compiz would be enough.
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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    Quote Originally Posted by mushroom View Post
    Doesn't look incredibly useful. Beryl with scale and showdesktop fulfills my needs just fine. "Cutting" through windows seems like more trouble than just slamming your mouse into a corner and having all the windows sprint offscreen.
    you must be one of those Fitt's Law-yers who's constantly throwing mice into corners.

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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    I've read way, way, way too many Mac articles to not have some of it carry over, y'know. I've found it holds true, though. I really want a global menubar in Gnome.

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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    Quote Originally Posted by mushroom View Post
    I've read way, way, way too many Mac articles to not have some of it carry over, y'know. I've found it holds true, though. I really want a global menubar in Gnome.
    I think the one bit of Fitt's Law everybody seems to forget is the fastest point that you can access is the one you're already on. I'd be FAR more interested if the desktop-bling guys started coming up with useful radial right-click menus, for instance.

    And folding and shuffling individual windows as if they were sheets of paper certainly appeals to me--but I deal with paper every day. Some people deal with burning cubes, I suppose, so we're all entitled to love waht we're familiar with.

    Personally, I'd like to use the paper to set fire to my cube. but then, that has less to do with the window manager and more to do with my cubicle.

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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    I've been playing with the live CD... it's very tricky to use. The concepts seem nice, the effects are nice, but unless I were to spend a lot of time on it (and its on Mandriva, so lets be real, that won't happen) then its more confusing than helpful.
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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    I think the one bit of Fitt's Law everybody seems to forget is the fastest point that you can access is the one you're already on.
    Not necessarily. With menubars on each window it's really easy to overshoot your target. A global menubar at the top of the screen completely eliminates that because...well, it's at the top at the screen. It's impossible to overshoot the target.

    I'm really not as crazy about the eye candy OpenGL WMs provide as much as the added functionality, such as scale/showdesktop, dropshadows to better visually distinguish windows from each other, etc. And now that Unredirect Fullscreen Windows finally works in Beryl, I can watch video fullscreen and play WoW without switching back to Metacity. So it's all peachy for me.

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    Re: Metisse, a *useful* accelerated desktop

    Very nice, looks like lookingglass or Vista. Can't wait to see it on Ubuntu.

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