Re: SUN's Project Looking Glass

[Gary <gary-list-silug@mygirlfriday.info>]

Hi Steve,

On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 14:01:57 -0600 UTC (1/24/2004, 2:01 PM -0600 UTC my
time), Steven Pritchard wrote:

S> I'm still trying to figure out if it looks cool or, well, stupid.
S> (Not stupid in a M$ Bob kind of way, more in the
S> vast-majority-of-E-themes kind of way.)

I think it looks way cool being able to slide back work like that in the 3-D
thing, like opening up a door... different than the shade roll-up concept in
KDE.

S> I can say that it looks like it would *seriously* suck CPU to implement
S> most of that, or at least require hardware OpenGL and everything layered
S> on top of that. (The freedesktop people have talked about that sort of
S> thing.)

yah, I bet it would suck CPU... big time... Overall, two thumbs up by me,
hee, hee..

>> Low bandwidth plays best.

S> The high bandwidth one worked fine for me.  8-)

actually me too, I forgot to delete that on the copy to the list, from the
original... <g>


--
Gary

Artificial Intelligence is no match for Natural Stupidity


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