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by eMPee584 on Monday 07/Jan/2008, @15:59

I'm sure some of you have seen Anand Agarawala/Ravin Balakrishnan's prototype of a new Desktop (if not, be sure to check it out at http://bumptop.com/, it's really great work).. I think the usefulness of this does not scale to any kind of computing one would like to do, but it is to be noted as a very refreshing and exciting INNOVATION in the field of graphical user interfaces. I don't know if plasmoids scale to 3D yet, but it would sure be kool to have that possibility, also in the next few years we will see the arrival of 'real' 3D screens as consumer products, so if we talk about 'visions' and computing NG(tm) then certainly we at some point need to give some thoughts about the third dimension ... ;)

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Re: BumpTop..?!
by SVG Crazy on Tuesday 08/Jan/2008, @05:23

Anand Agarawala/Ravin Balakrishnan's prototype of a new Desktop is kinda messy, but since it's just a prototype I think it is very important to share these ideas to make things better. I don't really know if plasma is going to be in a few years (since it will be able to be pretty much everything ;)) but I think these kind of ideas of making the desktop and apps windows real 3D will pretty much be possible with the addiction of widgets-on-canvas on qt 4.4.

The preview of this technology can be seen here:

http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2007/11/22/widgets-on-the-canvas-integrated/

Aaron already mentioned about moving plasma to widgets-on-canvas and webkit for applet rendering:

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/01/pencils-down.html

What will happen then? Only the future will say... And I'd say it's a near and very exciting future...

Sorry for my English, still learning...

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