Am 14.02.2004 um 02:58 schrieb SmallSqueak:
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> 	http://wwws.sun.com/software/looking_glass/demo.html
> 	Is there anything similar between Croquet and Looking Glass ?

Not much. Looking Glass seems to be nothing more than a fancy window 
manager. All it does is take the 2D windows and use them as texture on 
3D objects. The same could easily be done in MacOS X desktop, where 
each window is already a texture displayed via OpenGL (cf. 
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/fastuserswitching/). Or one could 
perhaps modify XFree86 to look the same - IIRC, there is even an X 
extension being developed that allows exactly this: managing each 
window as a separate surface, possibly using OpenGL.

> 	Would the Croqueteers have any comments on the Looking Glass ?

Well, you could compare the goal of "create fancy-looking window 
decorations" with the vision of the Croqueteers. Perhaps their summary 
gives you a glimpse on the difference 
(http://opencroquet.org/summary.html).

- Bert -