[HN Gopher] Vim rendered on a cube for no reason ___________________________________________________________________ Vim rendered on a cube for no reason Author : ohjeez Score : 24 points Date : 2020-03-31 22:12 UTC (47 minutes ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | Cyberdog wrote: | This makes it to the front page? Guess it's a slow day on HN | land. Is everyone else waiting for the April job threads too? | kking50 wrote: | I quite appreciate these kinds of posts. Fun and silly, yet | make you think about the way computers work outside the box. | saagarjha wrote: | This is great, especially the Q & A. | thelazydogsback wrote: | Funny thing is, I think this is just about as useful as every | attempt I've ever seen (real or Hollywood) to add value to GUI by | adding 3D gfx... | nicoburns wrote: | The issues are great, but especially | https://github.com/oakes/vim_cubed/issues/1 | juped wrote: | In the 2000s we used to do this, but with the proverbial Linux | Desktop. | lfowles wrote: | Whatever happened to the promise of cube desktops with wobbly | windows? | autojoechen wrote: | I remember compiz! https://launchpad.net/compiz. Looks to be | still actively maintained | c9fc42ad wrote: | Oh man, compiz-fusion is what got me interested in Linux. I | remember seeing videos circa 2007-8 of people's desktops with | all sorts of crazy stuff. Cube desktops, wobbly windows, fire | trails, etc. I spent forever figuring out how to dual boot | Ubuntu 8.04 and Windows and learned a ton so I could setup | these effects. Fast forward 12 years and now I only use Linux | on servers without a desktop interface at all. | | While this stuff may seem silly and pointless, you'll never | know who it'll inspire to dive in to a whole new world. I'm | glad it's being maintained still | jsjolen wrote: | Now we just need to render Emacs onto a tesseract. | ashton314 wrote: | Is that what the `C-x 4` keybinding is _really_ for? /s ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2020-03-31 23:00 UTC)