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Thanks, Martin!
by Anon on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @02:07

I'd like to thank Martin Gräßlin for being one of the few third-parties to be contributing to the KWin effects (and I'd pre-emptively invite those of you who'd dismiss his efforts as "pointless eye-candy" to stick a sock in it, thankyou :)) - I for one hope to see more of this from you!

There's a youtube video here - as usual, I suspect the standard disclaimers of "it's faster when you're not running recording software" apply:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNKZVKgXP8

Not to reduce his achievements, but this fairly rich effect, with complex motion, fading, 3D stuff, onscreen text etc, is achieved in a scant 818 lines, much of which is comments and general boilerplate:

http://websvn.kde.org/*checkout*/trunk/KDE/kdebase/workspace/kwin/effects/coverswitch.cpp?revision=779045

I wonder if the reason more people aren't stepping up to help with this is that they feel it must be much harder than it really is?

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Matt on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @02:36

Beautiful! How much code in compiz for a similar effect I wonder?

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by jospoortvliet on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @03:28

I wonder why there are Youtube video's showing the KDE effects ported to Compiz ;-)
I thought Compiz already had every effect under the sun (after all, they've been around for a while), yet apparently the KDE ppl still managed to come up with some cool and must-have effects Compiz wanted and even showcases on Youtube...

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Max on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @11:43

This is awesome. We're finally ahead of compiz on something... :)

They're copying us!@!!!

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Lubos Lunak on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @03:16

Third-parties? He's got an SVN account :).

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by jos poortvliet on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @01:45

He probably meant 'anyone who isn't named Lubos Lunak' ;-)

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Matt on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @04:48

There is a better vid here with reflection and smoother motion:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=sjNKZVKgXP8

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Matt on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @04:56

Ooops I meant here:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=dv1Nu4425g8

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Bobby on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @10:36

Really cool :)

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Richard M. on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @09:55

More effects???

Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Bobby on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @10:30

I would like to say a big thanks to him too. I just can't imagine computing without eye-candies anymore. As for those who consider them as useless, well they don't have to use them.

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Max on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @11:44

Same here...

If it wasn't for eye candies I wouldn't have switched to Linux. Totally true!!

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Max on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @11:41

Thanks for listening and thanks for making more eye candy!!

Can't wait to see the video.

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Re: Thanks, Martin!
by Heller on Sunday 02/Mar/2008, @13:54

I love those effects to but I must admit that some things like the selection effect in dolphin, in open/save dialog box... (fade in...) are a little too much :-/

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Re: Thanks, Martin! -love the effects :)
by Steve on Monday 03/Mar/2008, @11:26

Thanks Martin Gräßlin!

It's great to see more people are coding cool eye candy. Can't wait to see what you come up with next. I'm on the edge of my seat.

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