On Thursday, November 26, 2015 7:17:54 PM CET Marco Martin wrote: > in brief the problem is: > * there is a window at a given position, like 10,10 > * we want to move it to like 10, 20 > * the movement has to "look" animated. > > now, if i understood correctly, actual animation of the window position > should be avoided, so would need after the window position is changed, for > kwin to keep rendering it at the old position and then animate it still > translated to the actual final position? > > what would kwin need to do to do this third point in the best/smootest way > possible? (note this would be utterly useful for plasma tooltips as well)
It's not really difficult. We need an effect which gets hinted that on position change there should be a transition. For that probably one new X property/Wayland protocol is needed which gets evaluated when the window moves. Cheers Martin
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