Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-09-20 Thread Stef Bon
Hi all, long no sound from me, but alive and kicking. To start, we need a location on the Internet, starting with documentation, where it's easy to write/create (2d at least) drawings and formulas. Do you agree? Stef ___ Development mailing list

Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-08-21 Thread Tobias Hunger
On Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 5:36 AM Stef Bon wrote: > Yes the 3D window manager looks a lot at the idea I want to work on. Projecting "normal" 2D applications into 3D space is pretty useless and full 3D applications do not really make sense for that many use-cases. I have used both 3dwm and fresco

Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-08-21 Thread Edward Welbourne
Stef Bon (21 August 2018 05:36) > Also important here is what is called in Dutch a "verdwijnpunt". I do > not know the translation, but the horizon is something like that, > where all parallel lines meet..) Searching for it on nl.wikipedia.org I get a page [0] whose pictures tell me it's what we

Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-08-20 Thread Stef Bon
Yes the 3D window manager looks a lot at the idea I want to work on. Any point in the 3D WM (a good name!) has three components: (x, y, z) these are projected on the visible 2D screen, suggesting 3D like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3D_projection Very interesting is also:

Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-08-20 Thread Tobias Hunger
Hi Stef, in my misspent youth I played with Berlin (later Fresco), which went into that direction. The website is long gone, but the internet archive has a copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20080223200807/http://issues.fresco.org:80/ The code is still also still around:

Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-08-07 Thread Stef Bon
Thanks a lot for the time. I'm kind of busy now, but soon (2/3 days) I will come with a response. We'll build an awesome 3D desktop! Stef ___ Development mailing list Development@qt-project.org http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/development

Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-08-06 Thread Stef Bon
Oeps, where I write distand I mean distance. In my language (Dutch) the word for distance is "afstand", notice the trailing d. But I can safely assume everybody who read my post did understand it ;) Stef ___ Development mailing list

Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-08-06 Thread Stef Bon
Thank you both for the info. I've been thinking about a desktop in the form of a cube, simular like the 3D cube ysed by KDE. This cube is only activated by the switching of the desktop (1->2) for example, and the ctrl-F11 key, sooming out of the cube. That cube is - I think - the basis for a good

Re: [Development] About 3D desktop.

2018-08-06 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 6 Aug 2018, at 15:36, Stef Bon wrote: > > Hi, > > There are various desktop effects which offer 3D effects (kube for example). > > I want to know I anyone knows about any plan to create a 3D desktop, > eg a desktop with not only the coordinates height and width, but also > depth. > > I