I think what MC Return is trying to say is that unity overrides the user-specified behaviour when either one of these plugins is loaded and either it shouldn't, or unity should be marked as conflicting with those two.
On a technical level, not overriding the behaviour is harder than it sounds but patches welcome. John Lea <1006...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: >@mc-return; I'm changing the status of this bug back to Opinion because >it is a design change. However if you could attach a screencast of the >requested animation, we will review it against our existing animation >and make a decision on whether or not this change should land. > >Sorry about this, but it is really a design change, not a bug fix, >christian giordano needs to signoff all animation changes. > >** Changed in: compiz > Status: In Progress => Opinion > >** Changed in: unity > Status: In Progress => Opinion > >-- >You received this bug notification because you are a member of Compiz >Maintainers, which is subscribed to Compiz. >Matching subscriptions: Compiz bugs >https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006434 > >Title: > Show desktop plug-in fades windows out and ignores movement and > movement direction settings completely once unityshell is enabled > >Status in Ayatana Design: > New >Status in Compiz: > Opinion >Status in Unity: > Opinion >Status in “compiz” package in Ubuntu: > Opinion > >Bug description: > It fades the windows out/in to hide/show the desktop like the "Fade to > Desktop" plug-in should do instead of moving the windows out of view > like it did in the past. > > This is happening because this plug-in and its settings are ignored > once unityshell runs and Unity uses its own code to fade to the > desktop (unity/plugins/unityshell/src/UnityShowdesktopHandler.cpp/.h). > >To manage notifications about this bug go to: >https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1006434/+subscriptions -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of compiz packagers, which is subscribed to compiz in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1006434 Title: Show desktop plug-in fades windows out and ignores movement and movement direction settings completely once unityshell is enabled To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ayatana-design/+bug/1006434/+subscriptions _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~compiz Post to : compiz@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~compiz More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp