On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 16:38 +0000, Mike Dransfield wrote: > David Reveman wrote: > > > > I suggest that we add a plugin and a simple interface that allows any > > application to request that a set of client windows should be composited > > on top of a different client window. > > > > > > Its probably a good time to point you in the direction of > the miniwin plugin, in case you are unaware of it :) > > http://www.anykeysoftware.co.uk/compiz/plugins/miniwin.tar.gz > > It actually creates the window as well as painting a scaled window. > It also handles rotation so may be a good source of code/ideas for > this plugin. > > It is a very popular and highly requested feature, people want to > ditch the taskbar and have miniwin manage minimized windows.
What people? I suspect that it's the people hanging out on IRC and forums which is a very small part of the end-users base. I'm all for including functionality that this group of people ask for but we should keep in mind that most of our end-users are not part of this group. > > On the point of modifying the taskbars to support thumbnailing, > this seems like a good long term goal, but can I request that > something like this is kept around for legacy reasons. It's all plugins and I can't and wouldn't want to stop anyone from using some specific plugin. What I suggested is just what I think KDE/gnome developers would find most useful but I might be wrong. > > Ubuntu users will likely have first access to modified packages > but it would become a nightmare for support if these modifications > were not accepted upstream to each taskbar (gnome is probably a > given, but I am not too sure if KDE would be willing to accept it > unless it was standardized). This is not our problem. We're only exposing the functionality. If gnome/KDE want to use it or not, is up to them. If packagers want to use it even though gnome/KDE people don't want to, that's up to the packagers. -David _______________________________________________ compiz mailing list compiz@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/compiz