[compiz] Thumbnail plugin

[David Reveman]

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 14:12 +0100, Stjepan Glavina wrote:
> Tommorow I'll make a new version. It will just use patched
> libwnck/kdebase as this is the clean way. This way it'll be very
> bug-free.
> David, do you have any plans to put this plugin into the main compiz GIT
> repository? If you do this, I'll add a bug report to GNOME devs and
> request the patch to be included in libwnck.
> 
> Panel apps (gnome-panel, kicker, xfce4-panel) change the property to
> request a thumbnail. The plugin draws it (even with window decorations).
> This is the best way of functioning I can think of.
> I also made a version which draws thumbnails with no interaction with
> the panel. This results in buggy and hacky code.
> There's no doubt the first way is better.
> 
> If you don't think it's good enough to be in the main repository, tell
> me why.

Sounds good, lets add it.

Follow the instructions here to get an fdo account:

http://freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests

you can go ahead and add the plugin once you have an account.

- David