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pierlooqupon Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006

Good luck then!

pierlooqupon Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006

Oh wow! Any insights for the curious? I’d love to know more than what’s already on wikipedia from a first hand source! Cheers

pierlooqupon Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006

Wobbly windows and cube animation for extra oomph! :-)

pierlooqupon Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006

Thanks for the info and I agree - it was a pretty doomed UX to begin with and definitely not the first time 3d made an appearance on the desktop. The keynote definitely had a wow effect to it though, and it came from an unusual “competitor”.

pierlooqupon Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006

Still I wonder what Sun thought they were going to do with this... I find it fascinating they’d pursue a heavyweight UX project such as a window manager with no clear stake in the game... a last chance at pushing for Solaris adoption?!

pierlooqupon Looking Glass, a revolutionary window manager revealed in 2006

Oh thanks. I should’ve googled cause this part of the Wikipedia article has all the answers:

After unveiling the prototype, Steve Jobs called Schwartz's office and told him that Apple would sue Sun if they moved forward to commercialize it. Jobs claimed that the project is infringing Apple's IP.[3] Regardless of the threat, Sun determined that the project was not a priority and decided not to put more resource to develop it further into product quality.