[Novalug] Any Eye Candy for Linux? Also, Window transparency?

[donjr]

On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 11:02 -0700, Subba Rao wrote:
> 
> Is there any good eye candy for Linux (sort of like Apple's
> interface)?   KDE and GNOME's cursor icons are sort of animated, which
> is still very slow compared to Apples icons.  I haven't seen any
> application icon animation on Linux yet.  Please let me know if there
> is any eye candy package for Linux.
> 
> Is true window transparency available on any distro as a default
> install?  I am talking about cascaded window transparency.   Sometimes
> I want to see the performance output of the window in the background.
> Currently I am only seeing the wallpaper in the current window
> background.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Subbarao

Well you could try googling for: eye candy linux

The first hit of which leads to:
| A nice thread has been put together with many links to eye candy for
|  your linux desktop. Lots of things in there I'd never heard of :)
 <http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=114534>

Or a few hits down: 
| Linux.com | aDesklets: Eye candyfor the Linuxdesktop
| aDesklets: Eye candy for the Linux desktop -- article related to
| Desktop Software. <www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/07/05/1525221>

And the above article even starts off with the following line:
| Have you ever seen the Mac OS X desktop and wished all that eye candy
| were available for Linux? Now you can jazz up your Linux .....



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