Re: RFC: New KWin effect for notifications

2015-11-27 Thread Marco Martin
On Friday 27 November 2015 08:00:32 Martin Graesslin wrote: > > 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 > posi

Re: RFC: New KWin effect for notifications

2015-11-26 Thread Martin Graesslin
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 posit

Re: RFC: New KWin effect for notifications

2015-11-26 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Thursday, November 26, 2015 12:56:21 PM CET Martin Klapetek wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > > On Thursday 26 November 2015, Martin Klapetek wrote: > > > I've considered the slide effect but it has number of short- > > > comings for the notifications usecase and

Re: RFC: New KWin effect for notifications

2015-11-26 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 26 November 2015, Martin Klapetek wrote: > * setting an offset makes it appear out of nowhere; > that itself would be moreless fine, but the disappearing > animation makes it look really strange, it basically just > shrinks in height in place. This works fine when things > looks

Re: RFC: New KWin effect for notifications

2015-11-26 Thread Martin Klapetek
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 12:43 PM, Marco Martin wrote: > On Thursday 26 November 2015, Martin Klapetek wrote: > > I've considered the slide effect but it has number of short- > > comings for the notifications usecase and would have to > > be modified heavily to replicate the current effect. > > wh

Re: RFC: New KWin effect for notifications

2015-11-26 Thread Marco Martin
On Thursday 26 November 2015, Martin Klapetek wrote: > I've considered the slide effect but it has number of short- > comings for the notifications usecase and would have to > be modified heavily to replicate the current effect. what are specifically the shortcomings? I would like if it's a diffe

RFC: New KWin effect for notifications

2015-11-26 Thread Martin Klapetek
The notifications animation recently regressed for some reasons and after discussing with Martin G, he suggested to make KWin animate the notifications. I've considered the slide effect but it has number of short- comings for the notifications usecase and would have to be modified heavily to repli