[vos-d] VOS: Idea for instant publicity...

[S Mattison]

> Is it?  My cube is transparent :-)  (Although it's actually a prism -- I
> use 3 workspaces only -- and I set it to about 20% opacity just for eye
> candy)

What are you using, Beryl? That's not compiz! xD
Then again, I only have Compiz 0.3.4...

> CS does run under OGL if you tell it to.  What I don't know if it can do
> is integrate its scene graph into an existing OGL context.  The
> alternative is adding another alternative rendering backend to Compiz.
> My 3d programming is too rusty to say which option is more feasible.

I think it shouldn't be too impossible to make our own
Cube/Prism/Square plugin... How difficult could it have been for the
original programmers, if it's just a single plugin among many? And
since it's all opensource, can't we work with those developers?

> I dare say, I'd hope it to *replace* our desktop, in which case something
> like this would be necessary for backwards compatibility (like the dos
> box in a windows machine).

In my pet project "VirtualityOS", I came up with a different 3d mode,
wherein you could not only 'step away from the desktop', but also 'use
3dspace AS a desktop', so you could navigate around, as though the
taskbar were a sort of 'vehicle', that is, it would remain snapped to
the screen, but it would move with the camera.

Ah, but I best digress before I give away ALL my ideas!
-Steve