[compiz] Tried out Beryl (Animation pugin)

David Reveman davidr at novell.com
Thu Oct 5 11:57:29 PDT 2006


On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 14:16 -0500, Erkin Bahceci 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?

There should be a Rectangle for the icon geometry in CompWindow and it
should be monitored like all other properties. minimize and animation
plugins should just use this Rectangle instead of reading the property.

> 
> 
> > 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

-David



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