Qt Animation can animate our Dashboard without pain... 2009/2/10 Martin Gräßlin <k...@martin-graesslin.com>
> Hi plasma-devs, > > I had the idea to improve the appearance of the plasma dashboard by using a > KWin effect for it. Currently I have some proof-of-concept code, but there > are > still some issues ;-) > > The effect changes the brightness and satuation of all windows on the same > screen as the dashboard (causing some problems for multi-screen setups, but > I > have some ideas to solve them ;-) ). That's the same way as dim inactive or > dim screen for administration mode works. So we can have a nice animation > instead of "it's just there". > > I changed the background of dashboard to be transparent, but nevertheless > there is some black background. I have no idea where that comes from :-( > > My idea for the effect does not only include the way the background is > changed. > I would like to have a smooth transition. I have not yet tried anything but > I > would like to paint the windows transparent and raise the dashboard from > desktop to the top and when deactivating the other way around. I think that > could be a nice animation. If someone has a better idea please provide it > ;-) > > But here is the next problem: the white flash when opening the dashboard. > As > long as there is this white flash an animation does not make any sense. So > we > have to get rid of it. What about never closing the dashboard widget? It is > created during startup and just put behind the desktop. We could also use > the > existing effect to always hide it. Or just have it on top of the desktop > and > have the plasmoids live in there. That way we could also benefit in other > effects. We already had requests to hide the plasmoids in e.g. coverswitch. > > Ah and we can use the effect to block things like present windows and > desktop > grid. Alt+Tab is not that easy to block but it would be possible as well. > We > just have to try hard enough ;-) > > Attached you find the current patch for dashboard and kwin. The kwin code > is > also available in my git branch > (http://github.com/mgraesslin/kwin/tree/dashboard). The dashboard code is > really just proof-of-concept ;-) Please give it a try and provide some > feedback. > > Regards > Martin > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel > >
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