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Actually, the rotating cube effect started with the OS X fast user switching feature and was "borrowed" by a lot of virtual desktop systems like Compiz or the O
by evgen 18y ago
Actually, the rotating cube effect started with the OS X fast user switching feature and was "borrowed" by a lot of virtual desktop systems like Compiz or the OS X virtual desktop apps "Desktop Manager" and "Virtue Desktops". Since Apple already uses this visual effect for changing users it is not going to use it for switching desktops and therefore went with a different visual effect -- if you really like the effect you can get it with the previously mentioned third-part virtual desktop apps.
- thwarted 18y agoOSX had 3d rotating cube fast user switching in 2002? Most likely it was "borrowed" for that from someplace else. http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/oldnews.php http://desk3d.sourceforge.net/oldnews.php
- nailer 18y agoLike thwarted said, 3D desktop was doing this on Linux back around 2002, before OS X had multiple local users.. You'd zoom out, the cube sat in the middle of the screen, about 75% of your monitor, rotate, then zoom back in. It was a little flickery, but damn cool, and worked on the KDE setup I had at the time.