Novell brings OS X eye-candy to the Linux Desktop

Novell brings OS X eye-candy to the Linux Desktop

Novell has delivered to the Open Source community a new X subsystem called Xgl, which brings Os X Exposé features to the Linux Desktop.

The Cubic desktop switching and the nice window scalling and re-arrange to see them all at the same time - I have to admit that I'm addicted to this effect in the OS X - are some of the effects. Too bad the minimizing genie effect is not yet available, but who knows!

Will Apple design new kick ass eye-candy desktop animations? Who knows… But they could get multiple-desktop feature into exposé! I know there are at least two third party applications that delivers multiple desktops to OS X, Desktop Manager which is an old open source project , the last version is Tiger compatible although it's not being maintenned nor it's actually optimized for it, then you have You Control Desktops, although this one is closed source and you have to pay about 30$ - Ok, that's not much I know, but I'm used to open source software without the need of payment unless you want to donate.

Anyway if you want to try Xgl, you can download it from the CVS server at http://cvs.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/xorg/hw/xgl/?only_with_tag=xgl-0-0-1 .