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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: CoverSwitch Effect
From:       Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date:       2008-02-25 20:40:34
Message-ID: fpv942$fmo$2 () ger ! gmane ! org
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Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On po 18. února 2008, Martin Graesslin wrote:
>> I had time to work a little bit more on the effect during this weekend. So
>> I fixed your issues and implemented reflections (thanks to Rivo for the
>> great hint), a start/stop animation and config dialog. I had the chance to
>> play around with a Mac, so I got quite some inspiration for the animation 
>> ;-) (will be done in future) One thing I allready implemented: a slow
>> motion mode. Just press meta+s and the effect will be in slow motion. I
>> think that is something we could also use in other effects (e.g. present
>> windows).
> 
>  What would be the purpose? I think we could easily add an option for slow 
> animations like Compiz has by simply making the time reported to pre-paint 
> calls smaller than it should be, but I don't see why anybody would want a 
> shortcut for that.

For developers, so the animation is slow enough to see if it's working 
as intended? For people that want to ogle the eye-candy? For people 
making demonstration videos? (The best reason is probably the first one, 
though I guess this can be done temporarily in the effect code as well.)

-- 
Matthew
"Doggy!" -- Robots from Freefall (http://freefall.purrsia.com)

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