It was bound to come from this project eventually:

Why do I say “jumped the shark”, though?

Well, I’m not saying it in a deprecatory manner; I hope to eventually try it out myself to see it first hand.

Rather, I say “jumped the shark” because Compiz Fusion, the window management plugin system for Compiz, has finally come to a point of “not-much-turning-back”; while Compiz and Beryl, the CWM that had forked from Compiz back in 2006 and remerged in 2007, had primarily focused on revolving flat surfaces (the infamous “desktop cube” that was once exclusively a WM feature of Mac OS X’s Quartz Compositor), Compiz Fusion has finally incorporated the distortion of windows and desktop surfaces in various curvatures as a major feature of window management, and it seems like it will become the standard fare of desktop distortions by CF for some time to come.

So….expect many new videos of bouncing desktop balls or waterlogged fishbowls (with fish inside!) or, as you just saw, globes of planets. Revolving cubes are sooooo 2006.

Also, MPX has been merged into X.Org 7.5. Expect Compiz Fusion compatibility (and lots of video demos) later this year, at the least.