[mdlug] Very early screenshots for my "first person filemanager"

[Mike Ward]

While you're at it, if a file is deleted while you're in the directory (so
that it's in your field of vision), a little gremlin should come running by,
eat it, and run off.

On a slightly less stupid note, have you considered being able to manipulate
files as well? For example, maybe I can walk over to a file, pick it up, and
walk over to some other directory, and put it down, thus moving the file.
Cleaning up my mess of a home directory might be more fun if I can lie to my
brain and say it's a game :)

- Mike

On Nov 23, 2007 10:38 AM, Ingles, Raymond <Raymond.Ingles at compuware.com>
wrote:

> > From: Michael Corral
>
> > When it comes to writing a file manager, get used to people making
> > lots of requests. :) No doubt somebody (ahem) will insist that you
> > include ACL support, so that Linux will be "ready for the desktop"
> > and "support reasonable security practices". ;)
>
>  Yeah, I'm sure there will be plenty of requests. I'm hoping that people
> with more 3D experience will start taking roles in the project, frankly.
> I've tried to modularize the code so it's fairly easy to work with. (For
> a counterexample, tdfsb is all one big source file...)
>
> > > But now we've got 3D hardware in
> > > every computer sold, and we're not really taking advantage of it.
> >
> > The only thing holding us back are those pesky monitors. :)
> > Until someone comes up with a device that can produce holograms for
> > the objects the computer displays, then everything will continue to
> > be just variations on the same theme (projections of 3-dimensional
> > objects onto a 2-dimensional screen).
>
>  Yeah, but people still go to movies. There's still room to grow before
> we get to holograms.
>
> > You could argue that many existing GUI file managers (like Nautilus or
> > Konqueror) are already 3D: the icons in many cases are "3D", icons and
> > windows can be placed "behind" others, etc.
>
>  That's true, and this might be a misguided effort, but I still think
> there
> ought to be a way to apply that power to other means than games and CAD
> visualizations.
>
> > How are you going to handle files of size 0 bytes, since you can't
> > take the logarithm of 0 to determine the icon height? Even a 1 byte
> > file would have a height of 0 = log_2 (1), by your sizing scheme.
>
>  /* Can't take log of zero (empty file). */
>  if (file_r_info->file_info->fsize > 1) {
>    /* This scale allows the height value to be used for both
>       vertex and texture coords. */
>    height = log(file_r_info->file_info->fsize) / (10*log(2));
>  } else {
>    height=0.01; /* Don't have to use polygon offset or anything silly
>                    like that. */
>  }
>
> > Also, will the display have a legend for the permission colors, so
> > you don't have to remember what color corresponds to what permission?
>
>  That'll be configurable, yes.
>
> > And shouldn't you have colors for setgid and the sticky bit?
>
>  I do, listed in the design doc.
>
>  Sincerely,
>
>  Ray Ingles                                   (313) 227-2317
>
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