The things I think are the most useful in the OS-X interface are: 1. The ability to sort of "zoom out" where all the application windows are resized to be small enough so they don't overlap, in that state you can pick the window you want to switch to, then all windows resize back to their normal state. They'll keep updating in that "smaller" state too. 2. The quick user switching - will help me convert my girl friend to Linux. 3. The "magnifying glass" effect of the application icones bar at the bottom, allows the icons bar take less space on the screen but still be easy to pick applications when the cursor hovers over it.
There are probably a couple other effect which I found useful but I can't remember them right now (I just watched someone use it). I haven't found such features in the XD2 datasheet, does it have such things? I don't consider myself an eye-candy freak, but these are things that I think I'll use constantly if I had them on my desktop. I asked the guy who showed these to me if he can get me screenshots (he's back abroad). --Amos >From Lior Kesos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 25 Aug 2003: > Nadav Har'El wrote: > > >On Sun, Aug 24, 2003, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote about "Re: Forthcoming > "Blitz" of Announcements": > > > > > >>On Sunday 24 August 2003 23:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> > >>>As far as GUI's are concerned, I'm still trying to recover > >>>from seeing the Mac OS-X on a 17" Powerbook :-). > >>> > >>>When will KDE/Gnome/Anything-opensource-on-linux will > >>>match that interface? > >>> > >>> > Has anyone seen XD2 yes? (Ximian Desktop 2) It's a total OS/X ripoff > looks the same acts the same (except of that cool "change the top panel > > by context of what's focused"). > gdesklets (gnome's karamba (eye candy factory)) even gives the bounce > efect launchers have when application get launched. > Ximian do an excelent job in copying pixel by pixel(almost) good > applications from other OS's and thus making transition to linux easier > and more friendly (aka evolution). > > The only problem with XD2 is it's a memory hog I went back to my kde3.1 > and things started flying... :) > > Peace Love and bouncy bouncy interfaces - > > -- > Lior Kesos - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Content Development Team Leader _______________________________________________________ The FREE service that prevents junk email http://www.mailshell.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
