Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 11th Mar 2003 19:00 UTC, submitted by Mike Janger
Mike Janger writes: "What is Open Croquet? Alan Kay (one of the inventors of Smalltalk, one of the fathers of object oriented programming, conceiver of the laptop computer, inventor of much of the modern windowing GUI, etc.) is working on it. But what IS it? Have you guys looked into it?" I downloaded its 90 MB late last night. It's an 'academic' project featuring a futuristic OS 3D environment running through the Squeak environment on Windows or Mac. It requires a supported 3D accelerator (however, it didn't work with my Voodoo5 in hardware mode so it was painfully slow).
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why do i need 3d GUI (windows manager) on a 2d screen? there are applications which have to visualize things in (pseudo) 3d, but why do i need a 3d desktop? navigation in a pseudo 3d space is much more difficult than in 2d.
please think about good concepts for 2d GUIs, there is still lots of potential. and if you develop 3d desktops go real 3d.