Comments on: Sneak Peeks at openSUSE 10.3: Compiz and Compiz Fusion

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:48:25 +0000

would also like to comment on the multiple cubes idea ….basically I think it is a great idea but like everything it will never be perfect and their are always alternatives so I would like to mention an interface idea that my brother developed for fun…the rubics cube interface. The square on any given contains functional areas (my brother did utilities in a given geographical area but it could be process overlays just as easily). Selecting a square on a face effectively drills down to a lower level search category (visually the rubic cube turns and a new face is constructed with search result elements displayed). The dimensions of the cube vary according to data set size and if the dataset is too large another summary level ‘square’ is presented to allow further drill down searching.

Hope this is helpful/useful to the Open Source community in some way (awesome work guys)

By: scot

scot — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 11:35:35 +0000

Yea we get showed all these great features on how compiz is so wonderful. If we only knew how to use it! People don’t have countless hours to waste on trying to figure out how to use all the plugins. There is absolutely squat for documentation. Im going on three hours now just surfing google trying to figure out how to configure the settings in cssm. Nothing so far. Just a few half stabs from the public on explaining the settings. This looks like to be one hell of a program and I thank you all for it. But Im sorry to say all your hardwork is being wasted because the lack of official documentation. Im going to disable it now and wait for some official docs.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 23:02:26 +0000

How do I get this to work? I’ve installed it with 1-click install, but it’s not activated it seems… do I have to go the 10.2 way and change some links? Pretty confusing

By: James

James — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 20:23:27 +0000

It would be great if this would actually work as a one-click install. In my experience, it doesn’t actually work.

you still have to mess with all the settings and hope you might get it activated.

By: Al

Al — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 19:43:03 +0000

I agree with Max: I think that helping to the people to migrate from Windows is very very important. Most of people (non-techies) start using Windows and I think that it’s easy to migrate to Linux, but they need help for the initial steps. For example, myself. I now use Linux since april, and at the first time, I had a lot of problems trying to understand the file system (Where is “My PC” and what all those ETC, BIN, MNT, etc. folders for?). Most Linux users think that everybody know what is a repository and what is it for. It was also a problem for my at the first times.

I agree with Adam too: the support for basic elements like mouses and keyboards with multimedia keys must be improved. A stupid thing like a mouse not recognized can make a new user go back to Windows again.

Also other things like use Firefox or Thunderbird in Windows, can make the migration easier, so I’m sure that spreading Firefox and Thunderbird in Windows is great for Linux. I have been using Firefox from many years ago, and in Linux I feel at home when I use Firefox and Thunderbird ;)

By: JKS

JKS — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 04:12:21 +0000

I wanted to comment on the idea with the multiple cubes. I for one don’t plead in favour of several cubes, but of bodies on pentagonal, hexagonal, heptagonal… (you get the idea) bases to increase the number of available desktops.

Since switching the desktops one by another by turning the body right or left is bound to get ever more time consuming with each additional desktop, you could use a feature that by moving the mouse pointer onto the upper side of the cube (or whatever body it is) you get the possibility to switch directly to a certain desktop by clicking right onto it (if in the foreground) or onto its backside (if the wanted desktop shows away from the user), respectively.

Of course that could be realized with multiple cubes as well, if the stack of cubes is drawn apart as soon as you draw the mouse pointer on top of one.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 28 Sep 2007 17:00:05 +0000

I love all those features. Linux might finally get much wider acceptance. Right now we have more eye candy than OS X and Vista.
From what I remember eye candy was reason for many people to switch to OS X to begin with. More users under Linux = more features.

One favor please. Could you please include a video tutorial for people new to Opensuse/Linux that shows off all the great features and eye candy? I think that would make it easier for people to switch. A lof of users want something visual to convince them. Please don’t make it too simple, most people know how to use a computer by now, make it easy for people who have been using Windows for years and want to discover all the neat features Linux has to offer.

Oh, and please make the Wine/Crossover Office integration better, so that people can port all their Windows programs over to Linux, while they’re slowly switching to a different operating system. Remember one step at a time…

By: Anton vd Haterd

Anton vd Haterd — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:02:52 +0000

Sorry I forgot to start Compiz-fusion with this command:

compiz –replace ccp&

Compiz fusion now works great.
Looks very good. I like the ring switcher.

Thanks

By: Caster Troy

Caster Troy — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:21:44 +0000

Respect !
Good job !

By: Niels Jensen

Niels Jensen — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 16:25:26 +0000

In the spring I showed the Cube to some people I am working with on a project to improve the ability of operators to handle critital situations. We are quite enthused with this technology. However, for use in the situations, we are considering it would be extremely useful to have a series of cubes on top of each other.

For example at the top level one can flip through a series of process overview displays.

Upon selecting one of the overview display one can move down to details about the selected area.

etc.

The compiz-fusion technology can be used to create a functional based structure among the display in current DCS systems, such as Honeywells Experion.
I am certain this will improve operations.