Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 15, 2006 10:59 PM
Interesting, yes. Jaw dropping, hardly. Useful, not at this point. Basically, you get wobbly, transparent menus and windows which gives a 3d effect but which also makes those menus and window content harder to read. It's nice eye candy, but after I got over the gee whiz factor, all that wobbling became very annoying and distracting. The other main showcase item is the desktop pager which rotates about in a 3d cube. Very eye catching but it's slower than a normal 2d pager and I found it more difficult to keep track of what things were on which desktop. This soon became an annoyance and distraction as well. After a while I just wanted the pager to go to the selected desktop instead of popping up a cube and rotating to it. Bottom line first impression, I can't imagine how anyone would find these features useful or an aid to productivity. It's nice eye candy, but the net effect on me was a decrease in usefulness and productivity. All the eye candy effects soon become a distraction when trying to get anything done. The whole concept/metaphor of the 3d desktop needs to be seriously rethought IMHO.
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Re:The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful...
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 15, 2006 10:59 PMBasically, you get wobbly, transparent menus and windows which gives a 3d effect but which also makes those menus and window content harder to read. It's nice eye candy, but after I got over the gee whiz factor, all that wobbling became very annoying and distracting. The other main showcase item is the desktop pager which rotates about in a 3d cube. Very eye catching but it's slower than a normal 2d pager and I found it more difficult to keep track of what things were on which desktop. This soon became an annoyance and distraction as well. After a while I just wanted the pager to go to the selected desktop instead of popping up a cube and rotating to it.
Bottom line first impression, I can't imagine how anyone would find these features useful or an aid to productivity. It's nice eye candy, but the net effect on me was a decrease in usefulness and productivity. All the eye candy effects soon become a distraction when trying to get anything done. The whole concept/metaphor of the 3d desktop needs to be seriously rethought IMHO.
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