[Compcomm] CCS Manager problems / features

[Erkin Bahceci]

On 6/3/07, Patrick Niklaus <marex at beryl-project.org> wrote:
> > - It takes very long to start up. Can't the plugin options be loaded
> > when the user clicks on the plugin button? I guess Compiz Settings
> > Manager was doing this. Like this, it will take longer and longer to
> > start up as new plugins get added.
> >
>
> Thats more an CCS-library thing, it takes some time to initialize all
> plugins + metadata etc. (since XML parsing is slow sometimes) You
> should talk to Dennis or Danny if you have some suggestions on this,
> but I'm quite sure there is no real alternative to this behaviour yet.
> CCSM itself does not initialize the plugin options widgets at startup,
> but when you click on the plugin button in the main window. ;-)


>From 3-4 seconds down to about 1 second. Pretty good! Thanks Dennis.


> > - Plugin options are not sorted in any way, i.e. randomly ordered (xml
> > order is not used either). Alphabetical ordering would be nice to
> > have. e.g. "minimize animation" should be at the top in the "minimize
> > animation" option group, instead of being at the bottom.
> >
>
> Currently the options are sorted after type, which looks sometimes
> quite random, indeed. I'll change that to alphabetical ordering.


I see that it's xml order now. That's even better than alphabetical
because it allows the plugin author to arrange them. Thanks Patrick!

Can you do the same (xml order) for groups and subgroups too? Would be
good for the Animation plugin.

Also the selection boxes and int lists don't show the items in their
integer (i.e. xml) order. Can you fix that?

Oh, and hiding subgroups with more than 3 items was kind of neat, but
I can't see that anymore. Is it removed now?


Thanks,
Erkin