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I came across this vid surfing around YouTube. To follow up with my wish to have a compositing interface for the N900, this illustrates some of the strengths.

For those that don't know, this is a User Interface for the upcoming NVidia powered Tegra devices. Have a look:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3lea...eature=related

I'm not too crazy about the 3D-barrel-like-window-layout, but I love the fact that they zoom in and out and slide side to side. It enables a large accessible virtual desktop rather than a rather small 'static' desktop that can only display one resolution confined app at a time. Even if a window's contents weren't composited into the zoomable windows squares (eg. icons with text labels upon zooming out, or low res representations), it would still be extremely useful and use very little memory.

I would like to see a similar desktop for the N900, though it's not impossible to be emulated on the N8x0s as well. 3D acceleration would be nice in this case, but it isn't necessary.

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