On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Jon Smirl wrote: > Long ago I loved the command line. I was an expert at > it. When Window 1.0 came out I got my first exposure > to a mouse. For about a year I wouldn't get one, but > now I can't live without it.
Similar for me. And as I've read about a 3D Window System, my mind started to travel.... I was thinking that it would be good to have a 3D X Server which can do the same things as todays X Servers do but also supports an 3D windowmanager API and possibly an extended 3D Application Window, or better Object API. Such advanced 3D windowmangers could then use these APIs to arrange 2D Windows and 3D Windows within the three dimensional world of the X-Server and of course the views into this world. Maybe even more such as brightness and color-correction. For example, the 3D windowmanager could then manage some xterm and emacs windows for those people which can't live without emacs or their favourite ASCII programs and of course their favourite webrowser. To let them live in the 3D world and give them already some benefits of 3D, the X-Server could render the flat output they produce not into flat framebuffer memory, but into textures which are displayed on objects in the 3D world and can be already transparent for example to give some nice views. The real 3D windows would of course not need to be flat, they could be externally as todays Mesa Applications look external, but new 3D windows could of course be 3D objects then. Where they appear and how you get them, destroy them, size and move them would be handled by the 3D windowmanager then. Bernd PS: For initial 3D windows I think of 3D clocks, which you can size, rotate and view them from a different angle with different lightning and fog. Also minimized icons or desktop icons could be small 3D objects hanging around behind, at the bottom of the screen or where you want them. Far or near, bright or dark. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
