Its actually full of nonsense

I came across Topaz Brainstorm while searching for themes on Gnome-Look

Heres the link (http://www.gnome-look.org/index.php?xcontentmode=185)
When I googled for this term, I got mixed results. Some said it was a software that would replace Gnome, Others said It was a bunch of ideas and mockups for Gnome 3, Then a post on ubuntu brainstorm says that Gnome 3 will be called Topaz. Well, looks like Gnome 3 mockups to me

Heres a few I liked (Click on Image to go to the Gnome-Look page)

I was trying to get the Cylinder and Sphere/Globe effect on My Ubuntu. After trying many scripts that install compiz from git, I found my copy of compiz completely broken. Then after days of googling, I found this https://launchpad.net/~compiz/+archive.

And it seems, all you need to do is edit your /etc/apt/sources.list and add these lines

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/compiz/ubuntu hardy main

and then

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install compiz compiz-gnome

And you might also want to do a “sudo apt-get upgrade” to upgrade compizconfig-settings-manager.

You can now go to System > Preferences > CompizConfig Settings Manager and enable Cube Reflection and Deformation (Well, this is why I wanted version 0.7.6.) and edit to your liking.

now just

compiz –replace &

Screenshots Here (http://d1g1t.net/2008/07/17/desktop-screenshots-july-17/)