On Fri, 04 May 2007 16:47:23 -0600, S Mattison wrote:
> 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!
Is it? My cube is transparent :-) (Although it's actually a prism -- I
use 3 workspaces only -- and I set it to about 20% opacity just for eye
candy)
> 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.
CS does run under OGL if you tell it to. What I don't know if it can do
is integrate its scene graph into an existing OGL context. The
alternative is adding another alternative rendering backend to Compiz.
My 3d programming is too rusty to say which option is more feasible.
> 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!
I dare say, I'd hope it to *replace* our desktop, in which case something
like this would be necessary for backwards compatibility (like the dos
box in a windows machine).
best,
Lalo Martins
--
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible,
then they seem improbable, and then, when we
summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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