[compiz] Thumbnail plugin

[Stjepan Glavina]

On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 14:51 -0500, David Reveman wrote:
> 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.
> 

Beryl has support for getting thumbnails in it's core. Their both
thumbnail and switcher plugin can show thumbs of minimized window. All I
can say is that looks and works much better than in Compiz.
Vista does the same thing.

Isn't it be better to show a saved pixmap instead of an icon or nothing?

This is just useful and if you don't like it, it can still be just an
option.

What do you think?

Stjepan