The NEW 3D PanUbuntu Was: Is it me or does Hardy run like a pig?

[Emanoil Kotsev]

Donn wrote:

> I always thought (but not deeply :) ) that a first-person *world* would
> make a great UI. Imagine something like PlaneShift (the game, very nice
> BTW) where this happens:
> 
> I am in the main room of my castle. Each wall is a 'desktop' I can zoom
> into it, tear away zip across to another (or the ceiling). I can go out
> the door into another set of desktops. Perhaps I code in the main room and
> run email and stuff in the next.
> 
> I don't have time to walk through doors and down stairs, but I can setup
> hyperspace portals to any room.
> 
> Icons to start apps can be on desktops or can be hanging like paintings on
> the walls or floating around the space.
> 
> I can have a vast room full of folder icons. Documents that I can throw
> around (bump desktop style) and arrange into stacks as I need.
> 
> The Recycle room can be a pile of trash -- folder and document icons all
> scrunched-up. I can arrange them as I need. I pull a lever on the wall and
> the floor opens and they all fall into a giant fire!
> 
> I get a call on Skype (I know, don't kill me but Ekiga just won't work)
> and I zip up to my sky-room where the interface floats before me. If I
> need to drop a file onto the chat I can open a 'globe' which calls the
> entire castle into it and I can quickly zip to the folder room and find
> one. I drag the 3D document icons to the chat.
> 
> Daemons could be actual monsters and such. Apache would be an indian with
> the feather :) They walk about in the dungeons mostly. Their speed of
> walking (flying, lurching) could indicate their activity. When the fork,
> they clone and the children are smaller and chained to the parent.
> To kill them you shoot them. Of course :D
> 
> Outer space could be where you keep widgets orbiting the planet. Want to
> see the latest Dilbert? Hyperspace to there and fly around your widget
> space.
> 
> SSH would start a new castle next door!
> 
> And so on. Would be cool. Now go code damnit!
> 
> \d

Donn, I had almost the same dream. In my one  directories are also rooms and
files are objects and there is a virtual assistant, who brings me the skype
phone when I'm being called or the notepad if someone contacts me on icq.
Unfortunately I discovered recently that the idea has been already
implemented and a research in the AI field has been done :-( funded by X
millions of € and $. Check this: www.smartkom.org

About the 3d desktop as a startup the virtual space without "fire effects"
would be enough. I remember there was a demonstration of such kind of thing
already with kde2 and now the compiz and beryl projects did touch the
topic. Unfortunately my stupid intel graphics card will never do this with
two monitors - how can I punish intel - I I wish I would be david and intel
was goliath, but this turns to be another dream :-D.

Integrating apps into such a desktop would be hard I agree, but a 3d desktop
is a good thing to start with. Mail me when you start working ;-) I would
write pyhton (panda) code or whatever I can code then.

regards