Comments on: 2008-11-23: Metacity Journal

By: Thomas Thurman

Thomas Thurman — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 02:56:51 +0000

@Rui:
good point.

@Screwtape:
I did see it. That’s pretty bad. Seems we need Vectacity all the more.

By: Screwtape

Screwtape — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:40:24 +0000

Inspired by some of the ‘we don’t need SVG theme support, we can use SVG files in existing Metacity themes’ commentry in recent posts, I experimented a little with SVG the other day, and wound up rather confused and depressed.

Bug 561896 tells my sorry saga, if you hadn’t noticed it.

By: Rui

Rui — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:28:37 +0000

I think you got the boolean meaning of reduced_resources inversed because what Alt-Escape does is certainly more expensive on CPU (all the expose events) and on the wire (all the expose event handlers’ drawing commands). Thus, if it is to be used at all on Alt-Tab, it would be when reduced_resources is False.

Of course that if you have a compositing manager which keeps the window contents and thus the apps don’t get the expose events it would be different.

Also, personally, I don’t like the current Alt-Escape, it’s too much visual noise for my poor eyes to process when I want to quickly change windows. The current behaviour is actually quite good since my eyes can concentrate on a small screen area. YMMV.

Regards,
Rui