Looking Glass GPLed

Markrian · n00b Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 46 Location: Kent, UK

No words.... ... should have sent... a poet..!

EDIT: Just in case you have no idea what Looking Glass is, it's a 3D window manager developed by Sun Microsystems that looks fantastic.
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ralph · Advocate Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 2001 Location: Hamburg

Cool!

Where's the ebuild? :twisted:

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playfool · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 11:34 am Post subject:

it's wank regardless, what does a 3d environment get us, aside a lot of usability problems..

nothing that's right, it's useless eyecandy, it offers no improvement over the current situation.

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Raoul_Duke · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 2:08 pm Post subject:

I see both arguments.......looking glass looks like nonsense ATM, no advantages to current 2D WM's........but then, having it open source does mean that perhaps we'll see some interesting developments elsewhere :wink:

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placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

It does look like it will just be more eye candy, and more than likely I will give it a shot and probably go back to Fluxbox in a heartbeat. However, it's not like it's a waste of time since there are some people that like this stuff. I personally would rather have FDO's Xserver because of true transparency, but that's just me and something that I like. :wink:

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 17136

I watched the demo video a while back. Looked quite impressive. Mostly, I think it is the OSS version of softare that perpetuates the need for faster processors.
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codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:29 pm Post subject:

riis · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 3:45 pm Post subject:

Cool, I can't wait to try it. Although I am affraid it sucks balls, but hey, you have to try it.

On a side note that article in the register was hilarious:

HydroSan · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:13 pm Post subject:

I don't know why people are bashing it. SUN Microsystems is pratically opening up every single flagship product to us (Solaris, Java, and now their new baby, Looking Glass), in an attempt to help both the Open Source community and themselves. I have to say that they have great courage opening up these technologies.

Secondly, Looking Glass is probably the most sleek-looking WM I've seen yet. It beats the shit out of any WM so far I've used (KDE, GNOME, Fluxbox, XFCE4, XPDE, E, FVWM) in terms of eyecandy, and actually looks innovative and different. I'm not saying the rest of the WM's are crap and they should burn in hell, but what I'm saying is that now the Open Source Community has another key to making Linux a good, stable, secure and nice-to-look-at operating system for anyone.
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stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

MMMM. I'm having flashbacks of MS's "chrome" they were going on about in the late 90's.
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playfool · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:39 pm Post subject:

codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:46 pm Post subject:

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stonent · Veteran Joined: 07 Aug 2003 Posts: 1139 Location: Texas

Screenshots for those not familiar.

http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/details.html
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HydroSan · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:52 pm Post subject:

playfool · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:53 pm Post subject:

d0nju4n · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 4:59 pm Post subject:

usability aside, looking glass is quite sexy indeed.
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codergeek42 · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:05 pm Post subject:

shash · Apprentice Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 220 Location: India

From what I saw of the screenshots, it would probably be cool on a large monitor (say, 19" or so) and high resolution (>=1024x768).

It should be nice for organising windows and keeping things that you're not using still visible, but thinner, even if they are parallaxed. Like chat windows and the like...

headache · Apprentice Joined: 26 May 2004 Posts: 226

Solaris has not been GPL'ed yet.
1024x768 is not high resolution.

I'd love to try Looking Glass. It looks nice.

I would have thought that most of the forum members would have jumped on this since I have the impression that eye candy is the most important part of a system based on the numerous "Show your desktop' threads...
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Stormy Eyes · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 5:34 pm Post subject:

It looks cool, but what can you do with it that you can't do with X.org with Openbox? 3D isn't a panacea.

HydroSan · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:02 pm Post subject:

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HydroSan · Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2004 6:04 pm Post subject: