Cube zoom out and cube reflex :D

[lagorgy]

just for anyone that doesnt know, now you can zoom out the cube updating compiz to current git, and there's a cube reflection plugin that's awesome u can get it from here:

git clone git://anongit.opencompositing.org/compcomm/plugins/cubereflex

great work, thx.

[amgeex]

At last! This is great news, thanks a lot mate! :D

[delfick]

screenshot ?? :D

[lagorgy]

here's the screenshot.

http://img471.imageshack.us/img471/6688/screenshotqd7.th.png (http://img471.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotqd7.png)

[amgeex]

Holy $Hi7!!! This is tempting me too much, I *may* have to install compiz git... :twisted:

[delfick]

wow!!! :D

[FunkyM]

Another one...
http://media.sukimashita.com/temp/compiz-plugin-cubereflex.jpg

[defer]

Looks nice, any special reason for it not showing the reflection? I can load the plugin fine (in the end) but there's no reflection.

[RYX]

Hmm - indeed, looks nice, but ... have people nothing better to do with their PC than staring at their cubical desktop :D ... ? Planar desktops are much more usable and dynamic.

;)

[davim]

wow :D REALLY nice

[andqso]

@RYX:

I hope we're not starting a cube/plane flame war here.
But in defense of the cube desktop...

Planes, in my opinion, are only useful if they are laid out side-by-side. The standard square arrangement is problematic if you want to move windows around with the mouse as it takes up all four edges of the screen. This, naturally, makes it harder to get at panels and menubars that line up with the top and bottom of the screen.

If we've got four desktops in a row rather than a square, we might as well map them onto the sides of a cube. It's a nice visual metaphor (and with the new OSX coming out, it's one of the last things we have that Apple doesn't. The nerve, making it sound like they invented multiple desktops...).

So don't knock the cube.

[amgeex]

Man, this is all for the chicks! (sheaaa right!)

[RYX]

@andqso: :D ... Don't take me too serious in that, I used the cube long enough myself ... I just somehow fell in love with a 3x3 planar desktop and my "python-powered-plane"... (If I want to see reflections, I go to a friend and play Oblivion on the PS3 ;) ...)

[mikedee]

Looks nice, any special reason for it not showing the reflection? I can load the plugin fine (in the end) but there's no reflection.

Commit 0a9ef8c3e26794e1f7b1f4c broke this for me too, you can get it to work again by typing this in the cubereflex directory

git-revert 0a9ef8c3e26794e1f7b1f4c
make clean && make install

Just quit the editor that appears after typing the revert command.

[maniac]

Looks nice, any special reason for it not showing the reflection? I can load the plugin fine (in the end) but there's no reflection.

Commit 0a9ef8c3e26794e1f7b1f4c broke this for me too, you can get it to work again by typing this in the cubereflex directory

git-revert 0a9ef8c3e26794e1f7b1f4c
make clean && make install

Just quit the editor that appears after typing the revert command.
It was broken for single head setups only, I guess that's why onestone didn't notice it.
I've just fixed the issue in git.

[mikedee]

Looks nice, any special reason for it not showing the reflection? I can load the plugin fine (in the end) but there's no reflection.

Commit 0a9ef8c3e26794e1f7b1f4c broke this for me too, you can get it to work again by typing this in the cubereflex directory

git-revert 0a9ef8c3e26794e1f7b1f4c
make clean && make install

Just quit the editor that appears after typing the revert command.
It was broken for single head setups only, I guess that's why onestone didn't notice it.
I've just fixed the issue in git.

Yeah - I mean who has a SINGLE head setup these days... Its understandable that these things slip through

[mikedee]

I've just fixed the issue in git.

It doesnt seem to fix the problem with switcher though..

[Yohann]

can the cube drop shadow on the reflective plane ? it will look more realistic :D

[origin of]

[manuel@unix cubereflex]$ make
bcop'ing : cubereflex.xml -> build/cubereflex_options.h/bin/sh: --header=build/cubereflex_options.h: No such file or directory
make: *** [build/cubereflex_options.h] Error 127


:roll:

[mikedee]

You need bcop :roll:

[andqso]

compiz (cubereflex) - Error: cube ABI version mismatch
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'cubereflex'

This was working for me before. The value of the cube abi key is 0.

[maniac]

compiz (cubereflex) - Error: cube ABI version mismatch
compiz (core) - Error: Couldn't activate plugin 'cubereflex'

This was working for me before. The value of the cube abi key is 0.
Do a make clean && make install in your cube reflex plugin directory. The cube plugin was updated and so its ABI version doesn't match the version in cubereflex anymore.

[andqso]

I thought I'd done that, but I guess I forgot. Thanks.