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Metisse - New Looking Glass Alternative
Interested in a 3D desktop? zoso submitted news about about a project called Metisse, writing "There is working and freely available alternative to the (soon to be released under GPL) Sun Looking Glass 3D desktop ( Slashdot story here)
If you have spare CPU/GPU cycles just go download and compile the first publicly available version of this X Desktop. Everything looks nice (screenshots here), has OpenGL support, transparency and all other whistles...."
It is in case your monitor is not actually lined up with your chair, now you can just twist the picture.
ask yourself, "What problem does this solve?"
Where are the 3D Apps? Why 3D desktop always have to be like 2D desktop, except for some 3D change..
;)
Its not a evolution..
I'll stick with the command line..
why is it programmers have absolutely no idea about GUI design ?, why not speak to graphic designers or IA, a little intuition could go a long way, but as long as the desktop looks like something out of 1980's no amount of 3D or alpha blending will make it look good
you never could polish a turd
Right now these folks would prefer a spare webserver and some bandwidth. :-)
I'm all for whistles, don't get me wrong, but without the bells, I'm just not convinced.
Steven N. Severinghaus
1) If you are standing to one side of your monitor, it would appear perfectly straight.
2) Writing code in a microgravity environment, you would need your windows to match your attitude relative the monitor.
3) Twisted? At least it's not doing the hokey-pokey.
4) Or *is* it?
5) If your document were Medusa, you would not want to look directly at it.
6) If you combine two sideways documents and a Clippy, you can make an airplane and fly it around your desktop.
7) 2D is teh L4M3.
8) You get more points per kill because it's harder to shoot them.
9) Extreme coding challengers are bored and want new horizons.
10) Anybody can type in a straight line.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Famous last words:
"Screenshots here."
First Upside-Down Post!
ex$$
"I know this, this is UNIX!"
Only if it's an idiotic action! :)
We need a 3d input device, perhaps like the ones used in Minority report?
Will this do?
I'll turn into a supernova and burn up everything. Well I'll turn into a black little hole and you'll turn into string.
Our intelligent designer has never created an animal that we couldn't improve by strapping a bomb to it.
I would like Apple to add peeling to the next version of OS X.
Albuquerque PC
Why throw a ton of people into quickly improving an emerging new technology when we can split all those people up into smaller teams to try & develop the same thing from several different angles.
...End Rant...
Thus rather than continually improving upon potential "killer apps" (not that I'm saying Looking Glass is such an app), we can all slowly develop slightly different versions of the same thing, all the while ensuring that cross-compatability doesn't exist.
Oh! And don't forget the reunion party in 2 years when we all get drunk and lament the fact that products from the likes of Microsoft stole the fire that should have been ours. Even though our solution was technically superior to Microsofts.
Ok... Maybe I do sound a bit jaded, but it sure does seem that as soon as a killer new technology or application comes on the market, we suddenly have a ton of applications being produced trying to replicate the performance of that technology, rather than either building upon the strengths of it, or developing a totally different, non-copycat alternative. Wassup with that?
I think this qualifies: umop ap!sdn
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is a desktop window manager that mimics how MY desktop works, so I can feel comfortable, at home, and productive. I mean, they call these things files and folders, and it's called a desktop,and you have "tools" and whatnot, right? So how come they never LOOK or ACT like any *real* desktop?
Here is an example...uhh... this would be.. ummm, well, it's just an example.. *mine*
Random crap just appears, then the next day it's gone. You never owned it, it ain't yours, you don't know what it is,and it's usually scary looking anyway so you don't care when it goes away again.
You lay something down, go to the kitchen, come back, and the real important "thing" you just were working on has now morphed into last months bank statement, which now has a phone number on it with no name attached, but a date next to it underlined TWICE.
Odd random fires occur.
You notice that the old candy dish you throw your keys and change and junk in now has a birds nest with 5 little peepers all looking for some food. They get the last of your chips from the bottom drawer. For a moment you think about asking the dog how the birds got there, because he's the only one that would really know. Then you realise he'll just tell you what you want to hear anyway, so you forget about it.
You go to reach over to your small tools area to work on some hardware, and find that compound reverse dado titanium layered over fine ceramic skill saw blade you bought last year.
There are many odd Cds with no labels leaning up against the lamp base,all very important, but you have to use your magic 8 ball to see if you should try them out or not, because at least one of them you remember has hack_orifice_of_doom_2000 on it.
You try to make a post-it note and find 6 empty card board packages that pens and pencils came in, but not a single pen or pencil to be found. The cardboard boxes though you KNOW you can make something cool out of, so you lean them on the random cds pile leaning on the lamp base. That takes up the space that your duct and electrical tape is now using, so you put the electrical tape in your pocket and chunk the duct tape under the desk.
The point was moot anyway, because you don't HAVE any post-it notes.
You go to change out some RAM, and not finding a handy mylar bag, you take that old chip bag in the bottom drawer, that is now REALLY empty, turn it inside out, and put the ram sticks you will never use again EVAR into the bag and back into the drawer, for future archaeologists.
You go to print something, and you MUST decide,for paper, do you use the backs of the distro something 3.2RC1 HOWTOS you printed out four years ago, or do you use the backs of your girlfriends letters she's written but hasn't mailed off yet... hmmm.. hmmmm
Now, someone builds a computer version of an ergonomic actual human being uses-it desktop like that, call it "3D", I'll take a gander at it.