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List:       kwin
Subject:    Re: bug in coverswitch starting animation
From:       Sebastian Kuegler <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-06-08 14:05:31
Message-ID: 200806081605.35302.sebas () kde ! org
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On Sunday 08 June 2008 11:25:53 Martin Graesslin wrote:
>   On Wednesday 04 June 2008 01:51:30 Sebastian Kuegler wrote:
> > Thanks for the quick reaction + patch :-) Your patch changes its
> > behaviour, and makes it in fact behave more 'correctly'. I've used it for
> > a bit, and it behaves somewhat 'asymmetric', i.e. the start animation is
> > two-stepped now - and as a result takes twice as long. In fact I do
> > prefer the old behaviour.
>
> Quite agree. I also tried it and I prefer the old behaviour, too. Of course
> I could half the animation time, but then it would only be 100 ms and I
> fear that older graphics cards would only paint very few frames. So that
> would be not a good solution.
>
> > Or maybe have the active window before the switch move directly to the
> > center+1 position, and the now-active window to the center, the
> > z-ordering would then be switched when the windows are in the right
> > place, as the prev- active has to move behind the now-active one in any
> > way. This is still a bit cheating, but one doesn't see it all that well
> > because it's much smaller (and it happens all the time anyway).
>
> Here the problem is that AFAIK I cannot get the info which window was
> activated before the tabbox was opened. I just did some code reading and I
> think we can change there something for 4.2. So I would suggest to keep
> coverswitch as it currently is for 4.1 and look at this issue again when
> trunk is unfrozen.

Sounds like a good plan. Thanks for having a look at it.
-- 
sebas

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