Tired of seeing a prosaic, two-dimensional splashscreen every time you boot your system? Sun Microsystems recently released to developers early code for Project Looking Glass, a 3D desktop enhancement application Sun hopes will soon liven up a desktop near you.
Sun’s Looking Glass Provides 3D View
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“At the moment, four applications supported by Project Looking Glass are Mozilla 1.4 and its mail client; Star Office;Evolution’s mail client; and Real Player.”
only 1535 programs left.
Is to make sure that you don’t have to be using Looking Glass in a *Nix environment…. or at least I’d hope it to be.
If you don’t like *Nix you’re pretty much stuck with Windows, at least until Haiku start to come around…
Ok, it’s just the window manager incompatibilities? Can’t they just write a compatibility layer for it to make it work on the same calls as… say … openbox? Or have they introduced new things that it needs for programs to function in it?
I just hope the porting is pretty easy, so project maintainers aren’t thrown threw partial redesigns to make it work in Sun’s environment. I imagine it must be pretty easy.
I played with this when they first released it and its very cool, but very young. right now there is problem that alot of people have where the screen doesn’t refresh correctly so you can’t see anything when using terminal. I can’t wait until this thing actually works well its such a cool idea.
Now we’ll just have to wait for the 99 obligatory “what’s the use? It only waists CPU cycles…blah blah” comments.
Hey Eugenia, why did you only post a link to the PC World article?
Hasn’t any more UNIX/Linux centric sites written about this?
And most of all, why didn’t you post a link to the project and the sourcecode!?
we need someone to come out with a live cd of this !! where are teh knoppix hackers when you need them
Now we’ll just have to wait for the 99 obligatory “what’s the use? It only waists CPU cycles…blah blah” comments.
I remember posting that at least twice before. I think you’ll just be getting accusations of repeat.
find some better articles. That one is misinformed nonsense. To say
“At the moment Project Looking Glass is still in development, and so only runs on a computer using the Java Desktop System. We are currently shipping the developer’s version with Java Desktop System and Solaris, and plan to have a working version available for Linux”
is stupid. The JDS IS Linux. It also runs on Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, and Debian. This article is poorly written and poorly informed.
Now where the hell is my 3D mouse??
I am still not convinced this is a revolution in user interfaces. Woooo… a 3d 2d interface….. Its a cool toy but nothing more.
…couldn’t detect and activate my USB mouse. :/ Otherwise it LOOKED cool. I mean GNOME 2.6 with Debian, how can you go wrong?
Mike
Posted to wrong freaking topic. Sorry folks!