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Subject:    Re: Magic Lamp Minimize Effect
From:       Sebastian =?iso-8859-15?q?K=FCgler?= <sebas () kde ! org>
Date:       2008-08-03 22:14:39
Message-ID: 200808040014.40011.sebas () kde ! org
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On Sunday 03 August 2008 19:24:34 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 3. August 2008 18:15:36 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> > On Wednesday 30 July 2008 10:01:31 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > I started to work on the magic lamp minimize effect as wished in bug
> > > #167387. (That happens if you are bored in the evening and don't want
> > > to work on cube ;-) )
> > >
> > > So here is the first result. As always I'm glad about feedback.
> >
> > After some time of using it, I still love it (will keep it as minimize
> > effect, I think :)).
>
> Quite a point where I start to miss that I'm now using packaged KDE and not
> trunk as work environment any more.

(-: OTOH, it's a good sign that more an more people start relying on packages. 
It means we actually run what we ask our users to run, it's a sign of KDE4 
maturing...

> > Right now the minization is done into a fixed size rect behind the
> > taskbar. It would be nice if the effect used the width of the taskbar
> > item to scale down to. The minimize effect does the same, so basically
> > the window is scaled from window size to taskbaritem size. Did you try
> > that, did it work visually?
>
> Actually I had not tried. But here's the patch. It's hard to say which
> version looks better. Personally I don't mind, but the first version had
> some glitches (hardly visible in that speed).

What do you mean with first version exactly? The first patch you sent for 
review (before you committed it)?

In any case, impressed  by the speed of your reply+patch, awesome :)

I'm running it now, and it does exactly what I meant. I find it quite 'round' 
now. I'll let you now if I get ideas for further improvements, though I think 
it's in really fine state now.

Thanks for this cool effect :)
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sebas

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