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Re: Kwin effect
by Martin on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @07:26

I allready have a little bit of this Coverflow (but called it ringswitch). It is not yet committed as there are still some things to do :-) Give me some more weeks then I think it will be ready, but actual sources can be find in KWin mailing list.

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Re: Kwin effect
by Hans on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @09:08

Martin, you rock! :)

I tried the FlipSwitch, and it's very smooth. However, when using it I found some small issues such as:

- With only two windows, the animation was a little bit weird. I hope you notice what's wrong, as I don't know how to explain it. "Back and forth" is the best description I can think of.

- Hold down <Alt> and <Tab> (given that you have keyboard repeat enabled). Just hold for some seconds and then release the keys. The animation doesn't stop, it'll continue for a while without any apparent method to stop it.

- And finally: better support for multiple monitors. Right now it's between my two screens, which is a little bit annoying (because of the "gap").

Otherwise it works very good, great job! Do you want me to file these issues bugs at bugs.kde.org?

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Re: Kwin effect
by Martin on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @09:32

Thank's for the feedback :-D

>> With only two windows, the animation was a little bit weird. I hope you notice what's wrong, as I don't know how to explain it. "Back and forth" is the best description I can think of.

I know, but I liked it that way, so I did not try anything to fix this issue ;-) Perhaps I'll do something about it. At the moment: "It's not a bug - it's a feature" :-D

>> Hold down <Alt> and <Tab> (given that you have keyboard repeat enabled). Just hold for some seconds and then release the keys. The animation doesn't stop, it'll continue for a while without any apparent method to stop it.

Actually there is a method for it. The animation will continue until the correct window is selected. Ok, I have never tried with holding both keys at the same time. I don't know if this is a real usecase ;-) If you press in a moderate way the animation will continue correctly. By the way - just tested: boxswitch does not work correctly with this use case, too.

>> And finally: better support for multiple monitors. Right now it's between my two screens, which is a little bit annoying (because of the "gap").

That's bad. I only have one screen and of course not tested with two. What are you using? Xinerma or something like that? But I think I know the problem. I'll test it with my laptop and try to fix it :-)

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Re: Kwin effect
by Martin on Saturday 02/Feb/2008, @11:05

>> Hold down <Alt> and <Tab> (given that you have keyboard repeat enabled). Just hold for some seconds and then release the keys. The animation doesn't stop, it'll continue for a while without any apparent method to stop it.

Just fixed this bug with revision 770090. Thank's for the hint ;-)

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Re: Kwin effect
by Hans on Sunday 03/Feb/2008, @03:46

>> "It's not a bug - it's a feature" :-D

Haha, fully acceptable.

>> Just fixed this bug with revision 770090. Thank's for the hint ;-)

Did I mention that you rock?

>> That's bad. I only have one screen and of course not tested with two. What are you using? Xinerma or something like that? But I think I know the problem. I'll test it with my laptop and try to fix it :-)

I use Nvidia's twinview, a snippet from my xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Device0"
Driver "nvidia"
Option "TwinView" "True"
Option "TwinViewOrientation" "RightOf"
Option "UseEdidFreqs" "True"
Option "MetaModes" "1280x1024, 1280x1024; NULL, 1152x864; NULL, 1024
x768; NULL, 800x600; NULL, 640x480"
Option "UseDisplayDevice" "CRT, DFP"
Option "TwinViewXineramaInfoOrder" "DFP-0"

Option "AddARGBGLXVisuals" "true"
Option "DisableGLXRootClipping" "true"
Option "RenderAccel" "true"
Option "AllowGLXWithComposite" "true"
Option "TripleBuffer" "true"
EndSection

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