[SATLUG] Beryl - what does it get you?

[ed]

Hector Bojorquez wrote:
> hmm..
> the curmudgeons fail to understand that eye-candy explorations are
> experiments in usability...
> if it were up to them.. we'd all be still using command lines for
> EVERYTHING....and the technology would fail to serve its masters... as
> opposed to the other way around.
>
> personally.. it looks kinda cool to me..
>
>
> On 8/7/07, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> On 8/7/07, ed <etillman93 at peoplepc.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> It looks real pretty; kinda even mimics Macroshaft Windoze Siesta.
>>> Question?  Why?  What _/does/_  it get you?
>>>       
>> Well, let's see.  It never fails to get a rise out of curmudgeons on
>> LUG mailing lists.
>>
>>     
>>> I came to Linux to escape resource-hogging eye-candy for its own
>>> benefit.  This seems a step backward in the process...
>>>       
>> A desktop GUI should be functional AND beautiful.  Beryl has useful
>> features such as the ability to zoom and read small text, an "Exposé"
>> feature that shows previews of all open windows, negative view,
>> opacify, and real alpha transparency for all applications.  These can
>> be useful features for the vision-impaired and  disabled people who
>> might have a hard time using a mouse.  Personally, I just like eye
>> candy.  ;)
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Yeah...  I s'pose I can be am ol' curmudgeon at times...  Its just that 
I'm exploring Linux as a way to beat Vista. The last thing I really want 
to do is mimic it.  I want the functionality I'm accustomed to, in a 
smaller, faster footprint, and Linux supplies that in spades -- a 5.9GB 
Linux (Ubuntu) footprint vs an 11.9 Windoze XP footprint on the same 
laptop?  Which way seems more practical for the same functionality?  
Now...  If I could only get my networks functioning properly...

Cheers!

Ed