Some time ago I told my friend about my change to Linux. He gave me a link to video on YouTube about new 3D desktop for Ubuntu Edge.
Some related video I saw in internet many months ago. It was a Novell demonstration of the new technology.
Of course I was sold of it and I wanted to have it on my computer. But I needed a lot of time to configure it and correct all of the bugs.
Here are pages, where I found a good help:
http://wiki.beryl-project.org/wiki/Main_Page
http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/XGL
Ubuntu Edge has Gaim as standard messenger. My problem is, I don’t like Gaim, because of terrible design. The design of Gaim is so terrible that I could not find words to describe what I’m feeling while I see it. I’m not a designer, but I think that I could make it much better, that it is now.
The existence of Gaim on my computer was stopped with commad:
apt-get remove gaim
But there are not so many messengers for Linux that understand different code pages at the same time and looks like better than Gaim.
As alternative for Gaim I found Simple Instant Messenger (SIM).
SIM looks like as a normal messenger and has code pages choice so you can choose a code page while you are chatting.