[compiz] movement backend

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Wed Jul 11 16:04:53 PDT 2007


On Sun, 2007-06-24 at 13:31 +0200, Anders Storsveen wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I'm just wondering what the status is on the new movement  
> architecture that I think David mentioned a few months ago. The point  
> was to get more predictable and accurate movement in the plugins.  
> Since the current method recomputes speed and direction every  
> "timestep". So the movemnt is actually computed on the fly, instead  
> of having a predetermined path which is rendered. This gives the  
> kinda wobbely feel of the scaler and similar plugins which some  
> people (like me) think looks kind of unaccurate and non-professional.
> 
> I think David mentioned a rewrite of this to a paradigm more like  
> that in the animation plugin. Has there been any work in this yet?

Yes, I've done some initial work on this and hopefully I'll have to time
to finish it sometime soon.

-David



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