From fedora-desktop-list Wed Dec 19 17:46:56 2007 From: Matthias Clasen Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 17:46:56 +0000 To: fedora-desktop-list Subject: Re: metacity compositor in rawhide Message-Id: <1198086416.19270.8.camel () localhost ! localdomain> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=fedora-desktop-list&m=119808642303859 On Wed, 2007-12-19 at 18:15 +0100, Jon Nettleton wrote: > That is great to hear. I have been holding off submitting my patches > upstream until this happened. Here is the list if anyone wants to give > input. Some of them are very similar to what xfwm4 already has. > > 1) User configurable transparencies for windows when moved, and also > drop down menus. > 2) Drag and drop "windows" also become translucent. It was brought up > on IRC that cursors are already ARGB, so can theoretically be > transparent causing a problem. I think this is a setting that should be > desktop-wide, so I prefer having it in the window manager. I am open > for discussion on this. I just like being able to grab a bunch of text > or large icon and actually see where I am dropping it. > 3) Changes to the metacity capplet that also includes a checkbox to > turn on compositing. > 4) Unredirected fullscreen overlays. I know this should be handled > with the new Xorg stuff. I haven't followed up how far along the new > memory management code is. > > I understand this should also be brought up with the metacity team, and > it will be. I am more interested in what the fedora desktop team thinks > should be included in a base compositing desktop. I would love to be > able to ship metacity with composite in F9, with the ability to turn on > 3d compositing for more advanced effects. My take on this is that compositing in metacity should be just like window management in metacity: working as smoothly and unintrusively as possible. After a few minutes of using it, you should not notice it anymore. All of the things you have mentioned sound perfectly compatible with that goal... Matthias -- Fedora-desktop-list mailing list Fedora-desktop-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-desktop-list