need a new desktop? try looking glass

arshlevon

i am usually not for bells and whistles and stuff, but i found it neat that this is a non OS specific desktop with features from windows vista and osx. i havent installed it yet but plan on checking it out. its all 3d and i think i seen something about it before, but now it has reached a 1.0 status..
for more info go here
https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/

to download go here
https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/binary-builds.html

notman

I've used this before and it's pretty cool, but it wasn't very stable or complete. It was very beta at that time though. Do you know if 1.0 is a non-beta stage?

Michael Knubben

you'd assume as much from a 1.0, wouldn't you?
This thing's been in development for a few years allready if i'm not mistaken, so this could very well be a finished build.
I never knew it wasn't OS specific, that *is pretty neat, i'll admit. I usually end up turning off the shiny stuff after a few days of 'hey, this is neat' anyway, since it tends to get in the way.
Admittedly some of the newer linux-desktops do *feel a lot smoother than windows, which does a lot for the user experience. Windows xp tends to white-out or hang pretty quickly when something's loading, i find.

JKMakowka

tried it a few day back on my Linux box when the 1.0 version was announced.
The cool thing about it is that they really try to get some usefull features out of a 3D desktop, instead of it just beeing eye-candy.
But it really is just a experimental test desktop that is no where even near to beeing useable, so that 1.0 is pretty confusing. It should be better called 0.010 alpha version

notman

See, that's why I asked... 1.0 does suggest non-beta, but it sounds like it's still in the beta stage. There wasn't too much useful about it when I tested it other than organizing your CD catalog I would like to see how they've improved upon it though.