I feel like 3D desktops will be about as useful as 3D televisions; to whit, not useful. Probably 25 to 50% of the usefulness of a monitor is that you can show

I feel like 3D desktops will be about as useful as 3D televisions; to whit, not useful. Probably 25 to 50% of the usefulness of a monitor is that you can show your neighbor what's on it. Also 3D gives the user headaches often, and you have to wear these huge goggles. Finally, I have enough trouble wrangling windows and getting them to behave with two dimensions. A third dimension just adds a place where the windows can go that I don't want them to go. Gnome doesn't work well for me unless I find a bunch of half maintained bug-ridden extensions to fix the problems that have it has and it still doesn't work properly. KDE is perfect. It used to be slow but now it's not. It's very configurable but doesn't need it most of the time. XFCE for many including myself is the ideal, and is not playing catch up. At least I hope it isn't. I switched to a Mac temporarily recently. I had to install an additional app just so that I could tile my windows in a basic way that is already supported by KDE, windows, pretty much everyone else. They have alpha compositing and all that, but it still felt like a step backward. Not everyone uses a nonlinear video editor for a living.