[compiz] [PATCH] plugin conflict resolution between Fade & Animation

[Erkin Bahceci]

On 7/5/07, Danny Baumann <dannybaumann at web.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > The patches I sent earlier apparently only worked for window closing.
> > Animation's activate event was too late for suppressing minimize/open
> > fading. Here are working patches that are also simpler, they don't
> > involve any compiz-event handling. Now Fade just checks at the
> > beginning whether animation is active or not.
>
> Adding inter-plugin awareness is something we always wanted to avoid
> IIRC. I have a different idea to resolve this conflict: Split fade.c to
> fade.c (which does only the opacity/brightness/saturation change fading)
> and fadewindow.c (which does the open/close/minimize fading). If we do
> that, fadewindow and animation could both provide a feature
> "windowfading" which would leave it up to the settings manager to
> resolve that conflict.
>
> Comments?
>
> Regards,
>
> Danny
>
>

Ok, David wanted something like that too IIRC.

But for the record, we already have inter-plugin awareness in the form
of compiz events. (e.g. Animation has to listen to the "scale",
"switcher" and "group" events to function correctly together with
those plugins).

Regards,
Erkin