[Panel-devel] Pager extended for "viewports"

[Timothée Lecomte]

Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Thursday, 21. September 2006 02:19, Timothée Lecomte wrote:
>
>   
>> Unfortunately, it looks like Dirk took a slightly different approach.
>> Dirk chose to have one KMiniPagerButton per viewport
>>     
>
> Nope, not really. I did start to implement minipager per desktop with viewport 
> support, but eventually I gave up and just quick-hacked it for now. I'd be 
> very happy merge the changes that are necessary to make this a bit nicer.
>   
Well, give a try to what I sent and tell me what you think.
For the impatient, here is a screenshot with a desktop made of 8 
viewports in 2 rows:
http://tipote.free.fr/compiz-pager-screenshot2.png

>   
>> I chose to keep one KMiniPagerButton per desktop, but to modify its
>> shape according to the viewports layout it contains. The underlying idea
>> is that those viewports are really just a tiling of a large desktop (as
>> defined in EWMH), and this is particularly sensible when using compiz.
>>     
>
> Absolutely, thats what I understood as well. 
>
>   
>> Moreover, a window can naturally be across two viewports, whereas this
>> is a little less easy to implement with Dirk's approach.
>>     
>
> Oh, that works already. But I agree that wasn't the right solution.
>   
Ah, ok, I missed that when reading your changes. My mistake.

>   
>> - windows drag&drop in the pager does not work reliably when you try to
>> move a window from another viewport. I guess there is a problem
>> somewhere with the viewport position offsets, but I could not pinpoint
>> it yet.
>>     
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> I have the same bug suspect its an issue with compiz.
>   
It's quite possible.

> :
>   
>> - showing the desktop name actually doesn't show anything useful with
>> compiz, since there is one desktop only (currently).
>>     
>
> This is one of the biggest reason for me hacking it as viewport == desktop 
> into the minipager. This way at least some of the KDE settings are kept as 
> they were with kwin.
>   
Well, it's really limited to the desktop name, I don't think it's that 
critical: when you use it, you lose the real aspect ratio, which is 
quite nice to have in my opinion.

>
> Dirk
>   
I'm sure we can do something good here !
Best regards,

Timothée