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Pointless ponderings about mouse movement
Ahh, the humble computer mouse. It's been our loyal companion for quite a while, hasn't it? Everyone has one, or something approximating it. For an OS-control environment, wouldn't it still do a ...
"mptp" wrote:
It wouldn't be any more complex than the current typical desktop environment. The only difference is rather than having the equivalent of a bunch of pieces of paper on top of one-another, to be sifted through to find the one you want, you have a series of pieces of paper floating in front of you that you can look behind and move around to find the one you want.
As it is, there are already many ways in place to find that window. You have the entire taskbar showing you which things are open so you can directly click on it. If you have multiple windows of a type open, it presents you with a nice list of them. If they are in 3d, they would still be blocking each other visually, and moving your head to peer behind them would be far more involved, and making them transparent wouldn't work much better than making them transparent on a 2d screen. Additionally, with this scheme, once you do manage to spot the window, selecting it is more complex, as you have to manuever your cursor in 3 dimensions. This is far, far more cumbersome than a normal OS interface.