Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 20th Dec 2006 21:20 UTC, submitted by mkools
Project Looking Glass has hit the magical 1.0 mark: "This release is the culmination of 3 years of work, starting with Hideya san who originally conceived of a bold, new type of window system, through the initial shake down of the proof-of-concept demo by an internal Sun community, followed by the open sourcing of the technology, which generated such enormous interest that it brought down the java.net servers several times. From that point on many people from around the globe have contributed to the project; contributing to the core, contributing applications, performing testing, writing and translating documentation, etc. The project owners (Hideya, Paul, Krishna and myself) are very grateful for all of the great contributions we have received from you, the LG community."
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2006-05-18
They turned the grand vision over to those less qualified to perfect it.
I don't think I've ever seen a less intuitive filemanager than this fm3D..
Sure, when I twist the window, the icons remain in 3D space, but there seems to be a lot of work to be done in the interface department. Menus aren't a bad thing, neither is text.
Sun showed this thing off to early. Once they did, everyone else (Apple, Microsoft, OSS developers) jumped all over their 3D-space ideas and implemented them in a perfectly digestible fashion. No need for the massive Java overhead, just make your native display toolkit better.