From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Colors and other fun
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 27 Jun 2007 14:35:18 EDT."
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From: Bakul Shah <bakul+plan9@bitblocks.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:09:51 -0700
Message-Id: <20070627190951.73A8B5B3B@mail.bitblocks.com>
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> By 3D design, do you mean 3D widgets? You might note that most
> Plan 9 apps don't use widget toolkits (although libframe is sort
> of like one), but libpanel (by Tom Duff, used by mothra) uses 3D
> widgets, as does Inferno's Tk (although both are ugly by most
> standards; I'm no fan).

I don't mean 3D widgets in particular.  I don't even like the
word widget.  If they'd called it a gizmo it might have
evolved differently....

I am not sure what I mean :-)  Guess some sort of 3D UI.  A
way to deal with 3d objects.  Things like Cocoa's (x)(-)(+)
3d buttons are pretty silly and you don't lose anything by
flattening them.  Eyecandy is not what I mean.  To me design
is more about function, not just making things non-ugly.