[compiz] window matching interface and the new match option

[Mike Dransfield]

David Reveman wrote:
>
> PID can be in the core. Process name, host name.. and everything else
> you can think of that are strings should be in the regex plugin.
>
> Window dimensions would be useful. '>', '<', '=' can be used without any
> changes to match interface as those things are up to the expression
> handler to parse and there's nothing that prevents that right now.
>
> If you or anyone else feel like implementing a few of these please do
> so.
>   

I will have a look at PID and window size matching using greater
than and less than, the others are not so important now.

Also do you think it would be OK to add an override redirect match?
It would make it possible to work around a few toolkit bugs (ie. the 
mozilla
menu problem)


>> It would also be very useful if the match string could include a
>> value as well.  This would mean that plugins like blur could
>> have a list of matches with values and it could apply different
>> types of blur to different types of windows.  eg.  It could use
>> 4xBilinear for any window which is wider than 500 px like this
>>
>> min_width=500 =4xBilinear
>>     
>
> I don't think we want this in the match option. What you want is a list
> of (match, int) pairs and that can be created right now by having two
> list options. However, I've been waiting for a good reason to add a pair
> option type and this seems like the perfect case.

It sounds good :)