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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2021/06/24 14:52, Chavoux Luyt via
lazarus wrote:<br>
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<div>Questions:</div>
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<li>Is it possible to write a 3D desktop environment (with
similar functionality to KDE/Gnome) in Lazarus?</li>
<li>Is Lazarus a good tool for writing such a desktop
environment? Why/why not?</li>
<li>Are there better alternatives that can use OpenGL (or a
game engine using OpenGL) that can be used for writing
such a Desktop Environment (if Lazarus is not a good
tool)?</li>
<li>I have installed (but never used) Castle Game Engine
(using aptitude... but I don't see it in Lazarus). Does
anyone here have experience using it? Could it be used as
the basis of writing a 3D "desktop environment"?</li>
<li>Is there anybody on the list that would be interested in
helping to write this as a new type of user OS GUI for
Linux? Maybe as the start of a future GSoC project?</li>
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<p>It's certainly possible.<br>
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<p>I used to play with this long ago when they made a 3D desktop on
WIndows 98 still - was called 3DNA and the link below here is a
recent review of it.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-0WZJrISYc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-0WZJrISYc</a><br>
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<p>It looks simplistic by today's standards but it was much better
than wat the 3D bob thing on the windows store tries to do (which
I also tried and hated). You may get a good few ideas for how a 3D
space could be less finicky and more useable.<br>
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<p>Unfortunately my hands are a bit full to devote much time to it,
but wouldn't mind chipping in some and most certainly would be a
user/tester.</p>
<p>Good luck with it!</p>
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