physics-based animator

[Michael Rudolph]

On Thursday 13 March 2008 01:17:20 Hans Chen wrote:
> From scratch? Wouldn't StepCore <http://edu.kde.org/step/#stepcore>
> do the job quite well?
> Aaron, is there a way to make the desktop obey the law of physics?
> Not very useful I believe, but fun. And it would show the true power
> of Plasma. I think it would great if someone could make a containment
> where the widgets fall due to gravity etc., or how would such an
> optional feature be implanted (if possible)?
>
Hi Hans,

I don't think that this would be useless at all. Having objects on the 
desktop behave like real world objects could be a great aid towards a 
more organic user experience.

But you are of course right: it might be abused for fun more, than it 
will be put to good use.

michael