Re: The State Of The Art

[hitchhiker <hitchhiker cybermail net>]

>  To preserve the illusion of space (so that you can remember where your
> windows are), movement between areas of the... um... work surface is going to
> need to be animated (ie you see the sphere spinning around you rather than
> "jumping" from one area to another). I imagine this would place some heavy
> demands on your hardware... any thoughts, E users?  ;)
> 
>  Also, if you're going to have freedom of movement in three dimensions you
> have the possibility of windows ending up upside down (spin 180 degrees
> horizontally, then 180 degrees vertically... you're back where you started
> but the other way up).
> 
>  Just thinking aloud BTW, I don't want to knock the idea, it's very
> interesting. GUIs definitely need to move away from the flat desktop
> metaphor, it's just a question of finding a better one...

great ideas.

I think we're going to need to move this off the gnome-list.
anyone know were we can get our own list for free?

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