Hm... Good questions. Doubleclicking a desktop cube or free-floating desktop panel could zoom-and-snap it... Of course, I might like the option to make the desktop background completely transparent so I could see the 3d world beneath it too... But this is madness!
Hmm... Crystalspace does all our work for us... Pure OpenGL means we'd have to do all the work... And there's no way to integrate the two, is there? Run CS under OGL? Damn! That would put a big damper on things if we couldn't work past it. Well, it's a good can to kick around now and then, ne? I like your signature quote btw! ;D A linked opensource network protocol (err, I mean the VOS project!) seems inevitable. And in my mind, it seems inevitable that such a protocol will someday link to our desktop... For Freedom! -S On 5/4/07, Lalo Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We've talked about that before, back when Compiz was a new thing. We > could actually do better, a plugin *alternative* to Cube, that allows you > to create "workspaces" as free-floating billboards in virtual space. > > There are two big problems, however: > > 1: Compiz is "pure opengl"; might be hard to integrate that with the > CrystalSpace-based Interreality. > > 2: Just like with Cube, the workspaces would only become usable (in terms > of accepting input) when you "stick them to your screen" (zoom and > position so that it corresponds exactly to the screen). Of course we > could facilitate that, probably with some kind of snapping. This is > because at the moment X doesn't do the kind of input redirection that > would be necessary to allow them to work in any other mode. (Beryl has a > really neat hack to allow input when you're zoomed *in*, but that > wouldn't solve our problem here). > > Also, I don't know about the "instant" in the title... this is something > that would take weeks to develop, months to make bug-free :-) _______________________________________________ vos-d mailing list [email protected] http://www.interreality.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/vos-d
