[compiz] Thumbnail plugin

[David Reveman]

On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:38 +0100, Bellegarde Cedric wrote:
> Le mercredi 10 janvier 2007 17:55, David Reveman a écrit :
> > Let me know what you think about the my suggestions and keep up the good
> > work.
> 
> It should be cool to have a way to get thumbnail of minimized windows too...
> Beryl has just fork thumbnail plugin (so sad...), they seems to use pixmap to 
> get thumbnail of minimised window (with some beryl core modifications). I 
> think i prefer no thumbnail than a mix with live/pixmap thumbnails.
> 
> So, it will be cool to have a way to temporaly get the texture of a window 
> without unminimising it.

Being able to draw minimized windows will be solved when the server can
do input transformations. Window map state and window minimize state
will then be separated and map state will just be used as a way to save
some server resources.

So live updating thumbnails without using any additional resources will
be possible eventually. I'm not very interested in hacking up some
temporary solution before we have input transformation support in the
server. Just be patient, eventually it's going to work perfectly.

-David