Compiz fusion cube && other eyequestions

[GivePeaceAChance]

Hi,

I run KDE on my box. I don't want anything to do with gnome if possible.

Just installed compiz-fusion, and I've got a tonne of sweet eyecandy stuffs going on, but one thing I'm missing is being able to have a cube. I can do the elongated desktops a la |1|2|3|4| and my "cube" can unfold itself, and I can rotate my "cube" on the y-axis, but I don't ever get the chance to see a cube that fills up, say, 75% of my screen that I can rotate with the mouse.... Where is this option?

Also, I want to have a transparent terminal with readable text. By transparent, I mean the window is transparent, and WHATEVER is beneath it shows through - not just the desktop background like the fake transparency. I've hard of rvxt (I think that's what it's called) but the transparency it does also makes the text transparent. I want the text to stay sharp, while the rest of the console becomes truely transparent.

Is there a way to turn off window decorations (i.e. titlebars, borders, etc) for specific apps? Again, this is with regards to a terminal. On my Fluxbox setup, I had a fake-transparency borderless aterm that looked really spiffy when there was no application behind it to reveal that it wasn't actually truly transparent. I'm trying to achieve that here.

Is there a way to have the desktop background fade to another one? Or can the background only switch instantly? It'd be cool if I could have an image fade to another.

Finally, I really want a MacOSX like application bar. Avant-Window-Navigator has been suggested to me, but it's based on gnome, and I don't want to deal with gnome on my system. Does anyone have any suggestions/links to the next best thing that mimics the OSX bar (or takes the concept even further)?

Thanks for your help!
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