As revealed yesterday, Mandriva today released a special version of its Mandriva One 2007 distribution, using the 'Metisse' 3D environment (which is actually not a 3D environment). "Metisse is a window manager developed by the In Situ project. Available under the General Public Licence exclusively for Linux, Metisse differs from a classic 3D desktop ('the cube') in the way that it offers innovative windows interactions, thus enforcing work efficiency."
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it's nice they try new stuff, but really, it's useless... pretty much like compiz, actually.
ok, it's not all bad, a few things can be used in some rare cases, and they certainly look cool - but again, apart from the experimentation, how are they going to be usefull?
maybe something comes out of this, and we can thank mandriva for supporting it, sure. let's hope so, then.
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I've played with the Metisse set up before. Big Linux 2.0 had it on their liveCD. Unfortunately it was all in Portuguese. But it was kind of cool. This was a long time ago though, nice to see someone else using it, though is Mandriva just using it so that they're not another "Me too!" on compiz / beryl?
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Linux will certainly have the best looking desktop and with the most choices available. With Beryl/Compiz and now Metisse, it's finally happening for desktop Linux. While many of these 3D desktop effects are superfluous eye candy with no real added value, they do LOOK cool. And if there's one thing Microsoft and Apple have proven, form (i.e., eye candy) wins out over function hands down. Take the iPod for example: there are many mp3 players on the market that beat it in features and functionality but none of them have captured the "coolness" factor like Apple's offering. Having a lot of options is good early on as it promotes competition and rapid development. Soon, however, the creme de la creme will be adopted and the rest will simply fade away. May the best features win! I completely expect Metisse functionality to be present in a not-too-distant version of Compiz or Beryl. Mandriva has at least introduced this to the masses for bug testing and improvement. Good job Mandriva!
Edited 2007-01-25 20:54
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Metisse predates compiz and beryl by at least 6 months, probably more. Big Linux 2.1 had it.
http://www.biglinux.com.br/
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It seems somewhat related to the "Focus follows mouse" principle, at least the focused window shall not be toplevel.
This is a peculiarity of X windows ( I remember I first saw it more than 10 years ago on OpenLook Sun Sparc workstations...), I miss it daily at work with Windows.
Is there any poll on the ratio of users of "focus follows mouse" versus "click to focus" on Linux ?
