Compiz Fusion gets new filters and toys

Compiz Fusion, the merger of Beryl and Compiz 3d desktop managers for Linux, has added a few new toys for the adventurous Linux geek.

First, a colorize filter that frankly doesn't look very useful to us. Ok, so it might be fun to tint everything green, red, or blue for a few minutes but, beyond that it just seems like it would get annoying.

The second, "Shift Window Switcher" is actually pretty sharp. Shift adds Windows Vista style 3d tab switching to the already slick Compiz Fusion package. We're going to go ahead and ask (beg) that Ubuntu 7.10 include this plugin by default. Please? Pretty please?

Tags: beryl, Compiz, compiz fusion, CompizFusion, linux, osupdates, plugins