From LQWiki

Eye candy is a term that is used to describe useless cruft within software, who's only purpose is to look good. Eye candy is usually desktop effects, including 3D effects, such as making a window shake, transparency, shadows, other animations, etc. So, how can you convince your sister to use Linux ? With eyeCandy, right. Here are some tips about it:

Show her

• Compiz
• Cool games like
  • BzFlag
  • PINGUS
• Excellent applications like
  • k3b for CD/DVD burning
• Voice Synthesis (Make your computer speak - ear candy)
  • festival
  • Swift
• gDesklets