Speaking of Desktops

[Jon Pruente]

On 10/3/07, Justin Dugger <jldugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> I've been working with Ubuntu 7.10 recently and compiz-fusion is far
> better than Beryl as represented in 7.04.  The Fire plugin no longer
> crashes things, and the organization of plugin packages is smarter,
> with a hierarchy of quality and reliability. them.
> ...
> Compiz is great for a technology preview, and highly impressive to
> bystanders and people sitting behind you in class / meetings, but I
> think if Ubuntu really wants to deploy compiz by default, someone
> needs to step up and pay attention to those details.  The Technical
> Board takes the opposite viewpoint, that until they ship by default
> nobody will pay attention to details large or small, and I guess
> that's the definition of a community distribution.

I just "discovered" a nice feature in 7.10.  Hove the mouse over any
window, hold Alt and scroll the mouse wheel - the window will shift to
varying levels of transparancy.  This is actually a useful
productivity feature, as you don't have to change window focus to do
it.  It even works on the panels.