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3D-Accelerated Haiku Desktop

We all know DarkWyrm from apps like Mr. Peeps, Seeker, SimplyVorbis and Capital Be. Some might also have read his excellent articles on interface design and usability but now he writes on something completely new: a 3D desktop for future Haiku...

Quoted from the article:
Using the 3D accelerated power of modern video cards to do basic 2D desktop tasks is a novel concept. OS X pioneered it. Vista and Linux copied it. Haiku should improve it. This will involve significant -- major, in some cases -- changes to the Deskbar, Tracker, the app_server, and possibly other system components, but the changes will be well worth it. Visual effects detailed here are not merely "eye candy", as some would call it, but have the dual purpose of giving the user a better idea of what his computer is doing while making the interface more visually appealing.

Just like the earlier articles on interface design a very nice read. It shows just what a Be enthusiast DW is! Read the rest here.