Homepage of Eagle Mode (eaglemode) - a zoomable user interface (ZUI) with file manager, file viewers, audio/video player, games, fractals, and C++ toolkit API.

Eagle Mode is a zoomable user interface (ZUI) project created by Oliver Hamann that reimagines desktop navigation through continuous zooming rather than traditional folder hierarchies[1]. The software functions as both a file manager and window manager, allowing users to seamlessly zoom in and out through directory structures using a mouse scroll wheel, replacing conventional tree and detail views[2].

The project demonstrates practical ZUI applications including a file manager, clock, chess game, and 3D Minesweeper variant, all integrated into what it calls a “Virtual Cosmos”[2:1]. According to Linux Magazine’s Bruce Byfield, while initially disorienting, Eagle Mode “soon proves itself as a powerful and efficient tool” that reduces repetitive wrist movements compared to traditional desktops[2:2].

https://youtu.be/G6yPQKt3mBA

  1. Eagle Mode Homepage ↩︎

  2. Linux Magazine - Eagle Mode: A practical Zoomable User Interface ↩︎ ↩︎ ↩︎

  • mattreb@feddit.it
    7·
    15 days ago

    Cool, reminds me of Prezi (a webapp for presentations based on a similar concept)

    • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
      1·
      15 days ago

      No, I think that it has nothing to do with it, complete different concept and use. Prezi is a tool to create presentacions (paid soft), Eagle Mode is an File/system explorer with ZUI, FLOSS. See Video.

    • Zerush@lemmy.mlOP
      2·
      15 days ago

      Yes, I know, it’s a very old app, but still maintaned (last update in february this year) and working as shown in the Video in current OSs. I post it because it is worth to remember the existence of this unique gem, still without anything similar.