Re: ITP: 3dwm -- a tridimensional window manager
David Z Maze <dmaze@MIT.EDU> writes:
> So if it's not a window manager, what is it? Can you run normal X
> applications inside of it? How is it different from existing GUI
> systems? (Like, is it the same scale as GNOME/KDE, or the same scale
> as Gtk, or the same scale as Sawfish, or the same scale as X?)
The most straightforward description is at
http://www.3dwm.org/docs/3dwm-for-dummies.html - in the terms you
use, I'd say it's the equivalent of X or GNUStep with the
three-dimension capabilities of GL applied to all the basic widgets.
Consider that it was designed for the Chalmers Medialab 3D-CUBE, which
looks like a small cubicle with all the walls being screens (with
alternating left and right-eye images through use of special
goggles). I'm not quite sure what the point of it is on a
workstation, except perhaps as a development environment for VR
applications.
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