[compiz] Thumbnail plugin

[David Reveman]

On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 10:19 +0100, Stjepan Glavina wrote:
> > 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
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Beryl has support for getting thumbnails of windows when they're
> unmapped. When a window is unmapped, the pixmap is saved. Look at the
> code: http://glug.grm.hia.no/beryl/trunk/beryl-core/src/window.c
> (search for 'thumbTexture' and 'thumbPixmap').
> Do you have any plans to add support for this in Compiz core too?

I don't know, showing a saved pixmap isn't good enough. You want live
updating thumbnails even for minimized windows and we need input
transformation support to do that properly. So I'd rather wait but it's
your plugin so it's really up to you.

Before you start sending patches to kde and gnome maintainers I suggest
that we discuss the interface that will be provided by the thumbnail
plugin. What does it currently look like?

- David