kwin thumbnail effect in Workspaces 2

[Martin Graesslin]

On Monday 21 January 2013 12:52:07 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Monday 21 January 2013, Martin Graesslin wrote:
> > > in QML terms, the perfect solution would be an item than knows the
> > > geometry of the thumbnail it will be rendering, and then all of the
> > > above problems go away.
> > > 
> > > but if that QML item is not in kwin (something that should be avoided),
> > > that implies making information available from kwin about thumbnail
> > > sizes for specific windows.
> > 
> > The logic to determine the size of the thumbnail is not very difficult. We
> > could provide a QML item (outside KWin) which has the same algorithm
> > implemented and annotate code in KWin and the item to keep it in sync.
> > 
> > Not perfect, but better than setting some X properties...
> 
> now more difficult! would be possible to even tell the thumbnail to be
> clipped? I'm thinking if one wants to show thumbnails in a scrolling list,
> which has not 100% width or height (unlike in active)
use Alt+tab with thumbnails and notice that they are clipped in a scrolling 
list :-)

Yes already built-in, should not be difficult to add some properties to make 
that work.
> 
> (i get it won't be possible to draw on top of it for obvious reasons, but
> can live without it)
maybe we also find a solution to that problem...

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Martin Gräßlin