Hello everyone,

First of all, let me say that I'm not a very experienced Linux user, so I'm also not very familiar with Beryl (yet!).
However, I do know a thing or two about interface design, and I recently had an idea that I'd like to share:

The other day, it hit me that computer screens are actually very tiny, and the way they represent information is obviously very different from how we perceive the rest of the world. This is especially significant when dealing with large amounts of data (spreadsheets, images - but also websites and other applications).
In the real world, we mostly just turn our heads to focus on a different part of our workspace - and that's what I think it should be like for computers as well.

So I've come up with the "dome" metaphor; a 360° screen where the separation into individual (virtual) desktops is only optional. With this, you could easily overcome the limitations of 17''-21'' screens simply by using "freeview" (kinda like in 3D games) to "turn your head", so to speak.

Granted, this idea is certainly not revolutionary or hugely innovative (I'm certainly not the first person to think of this), but I don't think it has been discussed in depth before.
Also, there'd be a few issues to work out still (e.g. the radius of this "dome", focussed windows would have to be un-bent etc.), and I'm not programmer enough to be able to estimate the effort such an implementation would require.

So any (constructive) feedback would be appreciated: Do you think this concept is worth pursuing? How could it be improved?