[compiz] Tried out Beryl (Animation pugin)

[David Reveman]

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 23:30 -0500, Erkin Bahceci 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)?

Yes, you should be using options. One plugin can read and keep track of
options in other plugins. I've been thinking about adding some flag to
the CompOption structure to indicate that a specific option shouldn't be
exported so that configuration plugins don't get too busy when an option
is changed rapidly.

> 
> 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
> >

-David