[compiz] Tried out Beryl (Animation pugin)

Erkin Bahceci erkinbah at gmail.com
Wed Oct 4 23:00:31 PDT 2006


Context of the patches were wrong in my previous post. Use these
instead. (Again, they should be applied after Mike's last patches).

- Erkin

On 10/4/06, Erkin Bahceci <erkinbah at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I had thought that inter-plugin communication was possible through
> "privates" without adding anything to compiz.h, but apparently it's
> not (hence the name privates :) ). I guess this is only possible
> through X window properties, right? Is there a way to do this type of
> communication in a simpler way (and without modifying compiz.h)?
>
> Anyways. For now, I removed everything related to disablePostprocessFX
> for Animation to work with Compiz. I might have a go at X window
> properties, later.
>
> I attached the diff files that should be applied *after* you apply
> Mike's last diff files.
>
> Hopefully this will get Animation to work with Compiz properly.
>
> - Erkin
>
>
> On 10/4/06, Erkin Bahceci <erkinbah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 10/4/06, David Reveman <davidr at novell.com> wrote:
> >
> > > I understand that it's a replacement and sure, if it proves to be stable
> > > and well maintained I'll gladly deprecate the minimize plugin. However,
> > > minimize effects are likely going to be implemented in other plugins and
> > > it seems that especially the tracking of the icon geometry property
> > > would be nice to share.
> >
> > Sure, makes sense. When and into which file will that function go then?
> >
> >
> > > You can always host it somewhere else. I'm working on making sure that
> > > it's easy to use plugins that aren't hosted in the compiz repository at
> > > fdo. I'd like to avoid having a lot of code in the compiz repository
> > > that isn't maintained.
> >
> > Ok, that suits me. I just won't be able to do testing and conversion
> > for Compiz. Someone else who uses Compiz daily can do those. But I can
> > look into problems if someone lets me know about them.
> >
> > - Erkin
> >
>
>
>
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