A comment about the looking glass, that fits to a lot of things…
yeah, but what is it for?
Submitted by ferrix on Sat, 10/22/2005 – 02:13.
I must be getting old and jaded, because all of those currently ‘hot’ exciting developments completely fail to excite me. Be it AJAX or Web 2, file system as database or 3D desktops like Looking Glass, they all strike me as solutions looking for problems – and that’s on the good days. On my bad days I am convinced they are all part of a giant conspiracy backed by hardware manufacturers designed to waste as much processing power as possible on the most basic tasks, all in order to keep us spending our cash on unnecessary upgrades.
Seriously though, I think the idea of 3D desktop on 2D surface is by definition doomed to failure. Get back to me when we have true 3D displays…
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/3171
