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Sun Wants to Make Linux 3D
gruenz writes "Linux Planet writes in this article about a project inside Sun developing "an experimental 3D successor to Java Desktop that they believe will change the way we interact with computers." A demo is available from Sun. 'In the demonstration, Jonathan Schwartz, vice president of Sun's software group, increases the transparency of a window so that you can see through it, turns a window on its side so that it sits at the edge of a screen like a book on a book shelf, turns a window completely around and leaves a note on the back, and takes a database of CDs presented as physical CDs, that you flip through, reading the labels, just as you would with real CDs, until you locate the one you want.'" It's called Looking Glass, in case you've heard that name before.
.... they might start by posting the video in non-proprietary format!
"It was a summer's tale: Just a boy, his Linux, and a head full of dreams..."
I have used it, and it sure beats using a plain 2D KDE (even though the lovley kermamik interfaces looks 3D). I just hope sun decides to be innovative unlike the Gnome team who remove features, really annoying when you can't extract files from the context menu because the Gnome developers thought it would make it "bloated"
I have a fetish for traffic cones
The geek in me thinks this is pretty cool but...
They really need to be worried about their business which is slipping away while they are screwing around in the lab.
This reminds me of all of the times while I was in school that I would work on some project that I was interested in instead of studying the boring stuff that I needed to study.
You're report cards are in guys and it is time to hunker down and take care of business for a while. You need to worry about things that are going to add to your bottom line. I don't know how a 3D interface for Linux is going to do that effectively.
Hahah! Uncomplicated like a Mac? OSX is so brutally unusable it's laughable. Keyboard-shortcuts, strange dialogs, poor error messages, not conforming to it's own recommended UI standards...
They dress it up nice, but it sure ain't simple. You want uncomplicated, try PalmOS 3.5 and below.