Oh...to be sure, it will suck the you know what out of your CPU and your
memory. It is also very much eye-candy. However, that is why these two
guys use it...it makes their presentations rock.
I have tried it and found absolutely ZERO functionality that I couldn't
live without.
I think your rant is accurate.
Dave
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Project Looking Glass
> From: Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com>
> Date: Tue, December 06, 2005 1:22 pm
> To: slug@nks.net
>
> On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 10:29:50AM -0700, David R. Meyer wrote:
>
> > We have some people in our company that use Looking Glass on their
> > systems now. They use it primarily for doing presentations, etc. as
> > the native functionality within Looking Glass really makes for sharp
> > presentations.
> >
> > I am not sure what distro they were using but I know one guy was using
> > SuSE Pro (I think it was 8.2)...it was a little while ago.
> >
>
> I hate to say this, but I'm trying to figure out why this is a good
> thing. Nothing I saw in the screen shots couldn't be accomplished
> without 3D capabilities. If you want a little gizmo that says what a
> window is, "roll it up" and you can see the window label in the rolled
> up title line. If you want to attach notes to a window (on the back in
> the screenshots), just add a gizmo to the window manager to allow this.
> Yeah, you can do it in (fake) 3D so it looks kewl. But why? Sure would
> suck up CPU/GPU cycles.
>
> This is related to another complaint. Have you ever seen a curses screen
> being used day in and day out for input (like an invoicing application)?
> Fast as hell and rock solid. Translate that same input page into a
> webpage input page or some other GUI, and it runs like snot, compared to
> the curses/console screen. The curses screen looks like crap, but
> functionally it's superior.
>
> Anyway, I'm sure someone had to do Looking Glass just to do it. I just
> question whether it actually has benefits that couldn't be acquired
> through some other, less resource-intensive strategy.
>
> </rant>
>
> Paul
>
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