MDI Widget as a 3D cube?

[minowicz]

I caught a video on youtube, quite by chance, while tooling around. The video showed someone under Microsoft Windows doing something that looked very much like the 3D Cube and Rotate Cube, without quite the number of degrees of freedom. At one point during the video though, instead of the desktop rotating like a cube, the tabbed browser window had the document pane rotating like a cube inside the browser.

It might be outside the the scope of this project, but it made me think that it might not be too hard for someone to look at the possibility of a GnomeMDI Widget that did much the same.

The video is here: [url:c450f]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG9ztjqG6Ak&mode=related&search=[/url:c450f]

[Jupiter]

i agree this would be a great plugin for compcomm

it's called Tab Effect and is a firefox plugin
BUT it is for windows firefox only...UNFORTUNATELY

http://lifehacker.com/software/tabbed-b ... 227866.php (http://lifehacker.com/software/tabbed-browsing/download-of-the-day-tab-effect-firefox-227866.php)

[fluid]

the cube portion of that is a peice of poo called Yodm 3d. theres a few other cruddy things that attempt to emulate beryl/compiz and vista that people love to run on top of windows...about the only one ive ever found worth it was topdesk, and even it has its problems.

most of them use directx or opengl to render things, and they use static images that are updated every few seconds...so the cool "watching a movie on one face while rotating the cube" absolutely doesnt work.

it is likely too, that those things will never see the likes of wall and expo, or group. very innovative plugins for working with open windows and multiple desktops :D

i have looked at that firefox plugin as well, its not really 3d...more of a funny stretching and shading thing than actually applying the page to a cube.

[minowicz]

Riiiight...

So I wasn't realy after a discussion of how they implemented this stuff on windows, or if it is better or worse than beryl/compiz in some way...

What I was suggesting, I thought quite specifically, was that someone could possibly code up a compcomm-aware MDI widget implementation that could offer the same functionality as the bit in the video where the firefox document pane is (rather than the traditional MDI mode of tabbed windows) doing the 3D cube deally.

I recognize that this is outside the scope of the project since presumably it is a Gnome widget that would be written, and not a compiz/beryl plugin... I was just tossing the idea out since I figured that there are probably programmers in the project that have at least some familiarity with Gnome programming.