The point of the cube?
I often notice people saying that desktop effects, particularly having four desktops on the vertical faces of a cube, are pointless.
For a start it often makes people sit up and say ‘wow, what was that?’, especially during fast switching (Ctrl+Alt+left/right). Most desktop effects do this, including the (honestly, pointless) fire writing rubbish.
The cube itself, I find, is actually quite a good idea. Macs now have ‘Spaces’ as well, as they call them. Such an innovation, yes. It helps to keep however many programmes you have open at once organised, which I do find quite useful.
I’m not the most productive person in the world, and for me keeping ‘work’ open in one desktop, and ‘not work’ open in another helps me concentrate on just one task at a time. In this screenshot, I’ve got an essay open on the right and Evolution open on the left, as well as Firefox and xchat. It’s flashy, yes, but I just find it helps. Not all desktop effects are pointless.
