January 27, 2009 – 12:00 pm
GNOME bug 504729 suggests that switching with alt-tab, while using compositing, is too slow. This is because all the images of the windows are scaled on the client side before the window is displayed.
There are two possible answers to this problem.
Firstly, we can check for key release while scaling is happening, and if [...]
January 26, 2009 – 6:44 pm
Quick on the heels of our previous post on this matter, and Iain’s explanation of how it can be done in an external process and spawned on a keypress, malept points out Skippy, a program to do just that. However, it appears to be unmaintained. Does anyone fancy picking up the reins? Possibly there should [...]
January 26, 2009 – 12:00 pm
In GNOME bug 502491 someone is asking for an effect like Exposé on OS X. Iain, who wrote the compositor and ought to know, believes it would be better done as a separate program. There was an attempt to do this a while back, called Expocity, but nothing much came of it. Does this [...]
January 25, 2009 – 11:05 pm
True to my promise, here’s the first bug/squib of the day.
In GNOME bug 567757 someone is asking for live previews in the alt-tab window. I can’t think why this would actually be useful, as opposed to pretty, and it sounds like a lot of work and a source of new bugs. I am therefore [...]
October 20, 2008 – 3:19 am
I tried to discuss the gtk_window_present() problem earlier, but I only managed to confuse myself. So here’s an extra rundown; perhaps we can move towards solving it.
The problem is that there’s a call, gtk_window_present(), which is very vaguely specified:
Presents a window to the user. This may mean raising the window in the stacking order, [...]
Suppose you have two workspaces, and a window on each one. You’re looking at window A, so clearly window B is offscreen. You click something on window A, and window A attempts to present window B to you. What does that mean?
Let’s have two concrete examples:
0×01: You’ve clicked a link in Pidgin’s buddy [...]
November 22, 2007 – 1:07 am
Nigel Tao writes:
Hello. I’ve been reading http://blogs.gnome.org/metacity/ with great interest, and was wondering if you had any thoughts on my superswitcher program? People occasionally ask me if I’d push some of it upstream, which presumably means into metacity.
I asked which parts people wanted pushed upstream, and he said “the replacement of the existing alt-Tab [...]
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