Re: The State Of The Art

["jack wallen,jr" <jlwallen courier-journal com>]

i appreciate your desire to take this incredible think tank off this list
and into another but i have to say that i'd miss the process!  though i'm
not advanced enough to help with these ideas (or at least the realization
of said ideas) i can certainly appreciate what is developing here! 

great job you guys.  

On Mon, 24 May 1999, hitchhiker wrote:

> >  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?
> 
> -- 
> - The Hitchhiker
> 
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> great truth is also true."
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