Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!news.swapon.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Basic question about Linux versions - 3D Linux Date: 15 Mar 2025 19:54:21 GMT Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: <67d547af$0$29714$426a74cc@news.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net vbPdILL2SVKr7PUzqxeKIgIUuumHbUFhyo+E+ThmpYGL5oWI07 Cancel-Lock: sha1:lDEmhS5oO/S0OjTe7RukCp/l7Ts= sha256:xayHLCaaFmp55znVL3+14AXOhcVssQ8yByVBw9Ib66A= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 1745 On 15 Mar 2025 09:38:04 GMT, vallor wrote: > On 15 Mar 2025 09:26:07 GMT, Stéphane CARPENTIER > wrote in <67d547af$0$29714$426a74cc@news.free.fr>: > >> Le 14-03-2025, x a écrit : >>> What add ons and operating systems now exist with 3 dimensional space >>> as its GUI rather than a 2D one (like most GUIs)? >> >> In fact, each time you have transparency, you have 3D. > > Compositing does sort of have that effect, but I think he was looking > for something more like "lawnmower man" (I think). > > https://github.com/capisce/mazecompositor When the thread started I was thinking more in lines of a Linux distro that required you to wear funny glasses with red and green lenses rather than using perspective and shadowing to give a depth effect like artists have been doing for centuries. As for rotating desktops, quivering windows, and all the rest of the stuff, I can live without it.