Redesign kwin's kcm "All effects"

[Rick Stockton]

On 03/18/2012 09:48 AM, Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas wrote:
> <<SNIP>>
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> I was thinking today how we could make the above idea even better. So, 
> we could make the "All effect" tab
> able to play the video natively.
>
> What do you think? Should we change the "All effects" tab?
Definitely fix and add videos. But the follow-up question is "which way" 
-- and we NEED to provide text (improved), to handle cases of "no 
internet connection" and "Firewall has disabled download of videos".

With text included as an alternative, I vote for the download option -- 
because the downloads are maintainable on a smaller number of KDE 
servers, rather than making Distro Maintainers re-build Packages for the 
purpose of replacing an embedded video replacement. It also saves disk 
space.

But I would like to add another issue- I don't like "native play", 
unless the Player provides a full set of pause/rewind/minimize/move 
backwards-forwards capabilities. The user should be able to set his/her 
Window Managmenet Options by getting the video out of the way, at ANY 
time. *IF* we agree to require all of those player capabilities, an 
actual player (with it's own Window) might be more attractive than 
embedded play within KCM. But yes, that gets into politics -- which of 
the video-player programs built on KDE to recommend?