Clutter Reaches 1.0 Release Candidate Status

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 24, 2009 @09:12AM from the my-clutter's-been-manifest-since-1974 dept.

nerdyH writes "Intel's interesting 3D UI technology has arrived at a significant milestone. Emmanuele Bassi on Monday released Clutter 1.0rc1, commenting 'This is a development release of Clutter 0.9 leading towards the 1.0 stable cycle. It is the first release candidate for the 1.0.0 release.' Clutter is a centerpiece of Intel's Moblin stack for netbooks, MIDs, and IVIs. It aims beyond the traditional 2D 'desktop' UI metaphor, stepping up to a 'theatrical' metaphor in which 2D interface objects are likened to 'actors' moving around on a 3D 'stage,' with developers in the role of 'director.' Also updated Tuesday: the Clutter-GTK+ library, aimed at helping GTK+ developers Clutter up their existing apps."

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Re:Wow! by AlexanderTe · 2009-06-24 12:03 · Score: 3, Interesting

That's what I'm working on right now with the prototype that are using Cairo and Xorg.

To move the applications around on the screen, I need to convert from "pixel input" to vector points, and when I've managed to do that at desktop level, it shouldn't be hard to do the same with the content of the apps.

I've thought about showing an overlay with important actions when an application is to small to be controlled directly. When the mouse is over the app, a media player for instance can use 1/3 of the bottom of the app to show buttons for play, pause, next etc. But that's just an idea. If it doesn't feel intuitive, then it's a scrapped idea. :)