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Funny thing is, I think this is just about as useful as every attempt I've ever seen (real or Hollywood) to add value to GUI by adding 3D gfx...

shadowoflight 7y ago
Whatever man, compiz-fusion was the best productivity tool around when I was a kid.
- thelazydogsback 7y ago
  Sorry to harsh your mellow in these trying times dude
- def8cefe 7y ago
  Longest part of any new install was finding the perfect window decorations.
- dheera 7y ago
  I loved compiz-fusion for productivity -- especially being able to draw on the screen was super useful for meetings and presentations. Being able to zoom the screen was also useful. It's a pity it's no longer maintained.
  - CarVac 7y ago
    Alas, I never got the chance to give a presentation and draw on the screen with fire. I always wanted to. KDE has zooming built in nowadays.
- neutronicus 7y ago
  I miss the cube with the workspaces on it. I actually think it was helpful for remembering which stuff was on which one.
  - em-bee 7y ago
    exactly. having different workspaces mapped onto the cube was actually a practical effect. the same with wobbly windows. they'd only wobble when moved, which makes the effect practical, as it doesn't get in the way. i hoped this vim cube would do that too. map different buffers onto the faces, and rotate the cube as you switch buffers, but otherwise stay out of the way to actually let me work
  - mFixman 7y ago
    I had a transparent cube desktop so I could see what was going on the other faces of the cube. Being a master hacker during that time was fun.
- starky 7y ago
  Beryl was the shit when I was in high school. Those wobbly windows were mind-blowing at the time.
  - timw4mail 7y ago
    KDE still has the ability to have wobbly windows...it's always one of the first things I change...normal windows are boring.
dahart 7y ago
I actually really liked the 3d view in firefox (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View) A lot of people said it was silly, and I think IIRC the help pages for it used to have cheeky comments like "Why? Because we can." There's probably a good reason it was deprecated, but I thought it was useful for debugging my often deeply nested DOM layers.
- lukevers 7y ago
  I miss that view! It was so useful, especially debugging z-index issues.
- btilly 7y ago
  Gosh darn it! Now that I learned that it used to exist, I wish I could use it now to help my kids learn how web pages work!
- pierrec 7y ago
  I wanted to try this out, and the closest thing I found is this bookmarklet for Chrome: https://github.com/chrisprice/explodz https://github.com/chrisprice/explodz It appears to still work and it even sort-of works on Firefox except for the mouse-click feature that shows the sides. Clearly not as polished as the old Firefox feature though.
- saagarjha 7y ago
  Xcode’s view hierarchy debugger lets you do something similar and it’s quite useful: https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev4dfdedb7a https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev4dfdedb7a
- xingyzt 7y ago
  Chromium Edge reimplemented it in their devtools: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/23/debug-z-index-3d-view-edge-devtools/ https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/23/debug-z-index...
neutronicus 7y ago
Must not do much CAD
0xff00ffee 7y ago
This is a really funny comment to me for many reasons. I've been saying this since Jurassic Park came out and the Unix UI was basically 3D. Around that time I had some labmates in the mid 90's that thought GUI logins should be skeumorphs that involved doors, keys, and tunnels. And it got worse from there. Fast forward from 1993 to 2013 and I met a guy working on a 3D version of ... Atom editor I think? I was a fucking trainwreck to look at, but damn he was putting his all into it.
JKCalhoun 7y ago
Yeah, thinking we'll see this in Hollywood soon. Maybe "Jurassic Virus: The Beginning".

shadowoflight 7y ago

Whatever man, compiz-fusion was the best productivity tool around when I was a kid.

thelazydogsback 7y ago
Sorry to harsh your mellow in these trying times dude
def8cefe 7y ago
Longest part of any new install was finding the perfect window decorations.
dheera 7y ago
I loved compiz-fusion for productivity -- especially being able to draw on the screen was super useful for meetings and presentations. Being able to zoom the screen was also useful. It's a pity it's no longer maintained.
- CarVac 7y ago
  Alas, I never got the chance to give a presentation and draw on the screen with fire. I always wanted to. KDE has zooming built in nowadays.
neutronicus 7y ago
I miss the cube with the workspaces on it. I actually think it was helpful for remembering which stuff was on which one.
- em-bee 7y ago
  exactly. having different workspaces mapped onto the cube was actually a practical effect. the same with wobbly windows. they'd only wobble when moved, which makes the effect practical, as it doesn't get in the way. i hoped this vim cube would do that too. map different buffers onto the faces, and rotate the cube as you switch buffers, but otherwise stay out of the way to actually let me work
- mFixman 7y ago
  I had a transparent cube desktop so I could see what was going on the other faces of the cube. Being a master hacker during that time was fun.
starky 7y ago
Beryl was the shit when I was in high school. Those wobbly windows were mind-blowing at the time.
- timw4mail 7y ago
  KDE still has the ability to have wobbly windows...it's always one of the first things I change...normal windows are boring.

dahart 7y ago

I actually really liked the 3d view in firefox (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/3D_View) A lot of people said it was silly, and I think IIRC the help pages for it used to have cheeky comments like "Why? Because we can." There's probably a good reason it was deprecated, but I thought it was useful for debugging my often deeply nested DOM layers.

lukevers 7y ago
I miss that view! It was so useful, especially debugging z-index issues.
btilly 7y ago
Gosh darn it! Now that I learned that it used to exist, I wish I could use it now to help my kids learn how web pages work!
pierrec 7y ago
I wanted to try this out, and the closest thing I found is this bookmarklet for Chrome: https://github.com/chrisprice/explodz https://github.com/chrisprice/explodz It appears to still work and it even sort-of works on Firefox except for the mouse-click feature that shows the sides. Clearly not as polished as the old Firefox feature though.
saagarjha 7y ago
Xcode’s view hierarchy debugger lets you do something similar and it’s quite useful: https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev4dfdedb7a https://help.apple.com/xcode/mac/current/#/dev4dfdedb7a
xingyzt 7y ago
Chromium Edge reimplemented it in their devtools: https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/23/debug-z-index-3d-view-edge-devtools/ https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2020/01/23/debug-z-index...

neutronicus 7y ago

Must not do much CAD

0xff00ffee 7y ago

This is a really funny comment to me for many reasons. I've been saying this since Jurassic Park came out and the Unix UI was basically 3D. Around that time I had some labmates in the mid 90's that thought GUI logins should be skeumorphs that involved doors, keys, and tunnels. And it got worse from there. Fast forward from 1993 to 2013 and I met a guy working on a 3D version of ... Atom editor I think? I was a fucking trainwreck to look at, but damn he was putting his all into it.

JKCalhoun 7y ago

Yeah, thinking we'll see this in Hollywood soon. Maybe "Jurassic Virus: The Beginning".