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Use a separate button on keyboard or the mouse to allow windows to be pushed back in to a virutal 3 dimensional screen that the windows space suddenly become 3d rather than 2d. This is not new per NYU research/bell labs a decade ago, but modern commercial technology (microsoft crap) has a lot of catching up to do. Depth would allow spacial hypertext linkages and a concept of spacial locality for file systems which is much more realistic for human beings who are accustomed to a spacial universe.
sweetheart, Oct 25 2003
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My first response to this idea when I first heard about it (okay, my second response; my first response was, "Cool!") was that my desk is really three-dimensional in only the loosest sense. It is mostly covered in two dimensional articles (paper), so a two-dimensional screen replaces it nicely. However, I expect that having a three-dimensional user interface available would create an experiment-space that might shed light on new uses and ideas.
To that end, I went and found a project I had heard about quite some time ago called 3Dwm. It seems to be alive and well and very interesting. While googling around, I also found this Illinois Institute of Tchnology project with some very interesting concepts of how such an interface should behave.