The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017)

Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by Nursie on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @09:39AM (#26791955)

I liked the cube for the same reason - virtual desktops just kinda clicked when I could rotate the cube to get to the stuff running just off screen. I've never really bothered with them before (or since).

You could make the 'cube' have an arbitrary number of faces, but I don't think there was the zoom mode you talk about.

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by dale_glass on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:00AM (#26792214)

I recall not being able to use the top and bottom faces, for instance. But maybe that was just the KDE implementation.

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Re:The Dawn of a new Command Line Interface (2017) by Nursie on Tuesday April 13, 2021 @10:36AM (#26792713)

True, you could not when using compiz with gnome either, as I did back then.

You could add more faces to the cube so that it became a slice of a pentagonal prism, hexagonal prism, heptagonal, octagonal etc. Or take one away so you were working on the sides of a triangular prism.

But you're right, there was no vertical freedom of movement. You couldn't use a Rhombicuboctahedron, cool as it might be :) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombicuboctahedron)

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