[compiz] [PATCH] plugin conflict between Minimize & Animation: add feature "windowanimations"

Danny Baumann dannybaumann at web.de
Thu Jul 5 01:35:11 PDT 2007


Hi,

> The minimize plugin conflicts with Animation. For example, it doesn't
> let Animation draw shade animations, and interferes with other window
> event animations. The animation plugin now minimizes the relevant
> effects to taskbar, so using the two plugins together doesn't make
> sense anymore. Moreover, by default Animation is off, Minimize is on,
> and when users enable Animation, naturally they don't know they should
> disable Minimize, or they forget to do so, which results in bad
> animations. (e.g. "magic lamp" zooming to taskbar). So here is a patch
> to minimize's metadata to state that it provides a feature
> "windowanimations", which Animation also provides, to ensure that they
> are not used at the same time.

Having minimize provide this feature definitely makes sense - I've just
applied your patch.

Regards,

Danny



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