[Compcomm] Animation depricating Minimize. There is one last thing that minimize can do

[Sam Spilsbury]

Ok, I think I'll try to stop interpreting ;-)

This is great news by the way

On 5/10/07, Erkin Bahceci <erkinbah at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/07, Sam Spilsbury <smspillaz at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 5/10/07, Erkin Bahceci <erkinbah at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > For animation and wobbly, you'll see in the code that both plugins
> > > create vertices which are stored in CompWindow structure, and
> > > therefore shared, and which the plugins set absolute positions for.
> > > What I'm proposing is to make them "add" their "position changes" onto
> > > the current positions of those vertices instead of setting absolute
> > > positions for them. They just need to know what point on the window
> > > each vertex corresponds to (it's a simple list of vertices). This can
> > > be done by putting 2 more values (x, y) for each vertex in CompWindow,
> > > so that every plugin can compute their "position changes" according to
> > > where each vertex corresponds to on the window. Currently each plugin
> > > only has this information for the vertices created by itself.
> > >
> > > For plugins to request creation of vertices in a particular way, there
> > > could be core functions like requestRectangularGridVertices and
> > > requestRadialGridVertices (this one would be much better for, say, a
> > > whirlpool animation), etc. with some resolution. The resolution could
> > > be a core option.
> > >
> > > No need to submit gridmaps or anything else.
> >
> >
> > So you mean like a gripmap interface within compiz? That apps can plug in to?
>
> I don't know what you mean by a "gripmap interface". Combining
> animation effects could be done as I tried to describe before. The
> vertices are already in the core. Animation and Wobbly plugins create
> vertices according to their internal representation of the animation
> effect they want to achieve (you could call that a grid). That doesn't
> need to be shared.
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