panels and popups sliding effect

[Marco Martin]

On Sunday 26 July 2009, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Sunday 26 July 2009, Marco Martin wrote:
> > i'm really on the fence on where to put this and how to call it.
> > Becasue if we put other stuff like that like the taskbar thumbnails and
> > the glow effect they wouldn't have much to do with animation, and i'm
> > kinda wondering if plasma is the right namespace/lib for that, hmm..
>
> Plasma::WindowEffects as a name space in libplasma is just fine i think.
>
> cons:
>
> * it's not really 100% in the right "theme" for libplasma (a components-on-
> canvas library)
>
> * it's potentially useful to many other applications that otherwise
> wouldn't need libplasma
>
>
> pros:
>
> * it allows us to use it in libplasma (Dialog, ToolTip, etc)
>
> * it allows us to use Plasma defines, such as location (which putting it in
> kdeui, for instance, wouldn't); perhaps this could be worked around, though
>
> * from libplasma all plasma shells and plugins can easily take advantage of
> this functionality
>
>
> so not perfect, but i don't see a better place for it. let's put it in
> trunk, start using it and see if something better doesn't become evident
> before 4.4.0 is released.
ok, so for now WindowEffects is in :)


Cheers, 
Marco Martin