OMG!!! Project Looking Glass

[Waggy]

Just check it out...
Bess GUI IWMC!!

http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass...ss/details.html







This just in: Microsoft makes some deal with Sun Microsystems. Details later on that. Do I smell Intimidation people?                    

[Waggy]

Take one more....

                   

[Waggy]

Wanna take lil notes? Forget notepad.....

                   

[CRaZyAnGeL]

very very jed
will hav to organise to get dis lol                    

[Evangelion_01]

WHOA! Now THAT is cool...VERY VERY cool...

Do I smell a burning graphics card and RAM?
 
Or if its the same base as and OS without the necessary specs or just a plain optical illusion with the GUI?

It's unique to Linux...*listens to see if he can hear Bill Gates screaming yet*                    

[TriniXaeno]

looks like something objectdock woulda done.

Very slick!!!

Sun iwmc.

I wonder if they gonna throw this on their new Java based operating system?                    

[snake_eater]

that real bad i want that

*remembers minority report*                    

[Flippant]

looks v cool
but you gotta have a 21 inch monitor at least
or better a 50 inch plasma                    

[Evangelion_01]

*collapses on the floor, laughing at Sns! operating system *

Whoo, now that is poetic justice man! Whoo, good laugh there

Anyway, as I hear from what Waggy discussed, its actually not a very in depth system in terns of needing system resources.                    

[Waggy]

From what I hear it's exclusive to linux, and anyne who used linux knows that it can handle LG.
And LG's a mere GUI from what i heard. Just like KDE or gnome.
The transparency thing can be pulled off by xchat, so no biggie there.
As baego said, the taskbar/system tray can be pulled off my object dock. Both of these apps run on windows fine.  The tricky part for rcourses is actually watching a movie in a window and seeing it in the taskbar also. And c'mon, if your system could handle Q3 it could more than handle this. Being able to  flip the windows and take notes in the back will be hard on the ram. But  I know everyone here does have about 20 browser windows open lookiing at norp, so that wont be a prob. Plus a swap file 250MB or bigger will take care of that.

And maybe it will run on windows sometime in the future. I hope they release another OS that Sun had their hands in tho. Or maybe not. Windows sucks and we like it that way

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004...20040402.3.html                    

[coldstorm]

something at last to use all this graphics card power when u not gaming or running photoshop                    

[unimatrix001]

i wah dat OS....                    

[Evangelion_01]

Like I said-I waiting to see if Gates will go on bended kneee, begging for a remake of this for MS and/or Windows

*listens for screams and pleads*                    

[ARCH_ANGEL]

I think this might get me to look at my pc monitor long enough to get work done but then again its so pretty it would not be a help to my productivity thats due to the ADD of course                    

[Anonymous]

Like I said-I waiting to see if Gates will go on bended kneee, begging for a remake of this for MS and/or Windows

*listens for screams and pleads*

lol nah i think he will do what he always do and steal it.                    

[unimatrix001]

u kno i really wish dat dey would sit down on there asses and take what they already have and make it more stable... "got rid of the blue screen of death" my foot... i always getting it on xp an 2k3... jess it at a higher res an it does give more info... it still blue an it still annoying... man i fine windows XP/2k3 has enough features for now. it need stableness-ness                    

[richjob]

http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/darktip...3662252,00.html

"One day back in the early 1490s, Christopher Columbus came up with the crazy idea of sailing West to the East Indies to prove the world is round. Citizens of the Old World scoffed. "Siete pazzeschi!" exclaimed his best friend, Giuseppe. "Você morrerá!" cried his contemporary, Vasco. But Columbus managed to charm Queen Isabella of Spain, and she backed his wacky idea. The rest is history.

Fast-forward to 2004. A couple of weeks ago, Dark Tipper Kevin Rose stormed into "The Screen Savers" production meeting. "I've discovered a 3-D desktop for Linux. Say goodbye to 2-D!" he proclaimed, "and I found this really cool 3-D Linux screen saver, too!"

No one scoffed. No one called him crazy. Someone may have giggled, but there was definitely a pause in the room as Kevin stood there, wide-eyed and excited. "That's nice," said Kevin's boss, Ken. "Put it in the calendar."

So Kevin put it in the calendar and your Linux desktop will never be the same. On tonight's 'Savers, history will be made as you set sail to your 2-D desktop and say hello to 3-D.

3D-Desktop

3D-Desktop is an OpenGL program written by Brad Wasson. If you have multiple virtual desktops, 3D-Desktop performs the desktop switching graphically in a three-dimensional space. (If you own Mac OS X Panther, 3D-Dekstop performs a function similar to Panther's fast user switching.)

Can't figure out what we mean? That's OK, it's one of those things you have to see to understand. You can watch an animated gif to get a better idea of how 3D-Desktop works.

Learn more about 3D-Desktop. If you want to try it, you can download it for free, but Wasson accepts donations for his hard work. Drop him some coin if you like the software.

Download 3D-Desktop

GLMatrix

Oh yeah, Kevin also mentioned a 3-D screen saver. He's talking about GLMatrix. It's essentially a 3-D version of the popular screen savers inspired by "The Matrix" films. GLMatrix is part of the XScreenSaver screen saver and locker for the X Window system. Both GLMatrix and XscreenSaver are free. "                    

[Waggy]

Like I said-I waiting to see if Gates will go on bended kneee, begging for a remake of this for MS and/or Windows

*listens for screams and pleads*

http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2004...20040402.3.html
 well according to that they kiss and make up. So I think it wont be far.                    

[SideSwipe]

This looking real sweet. Future of the desktop here...