On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 17:27:53 +1000 David Seikel <onef...@gmail.com> said:

> On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:37:30 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)
> <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> 
> > > I want the pager to not display miniature "snapshots" of the
> > > contents of windows, just representations of the location and size
> > > of those windows.  
> > 
> > it literally can't even do this in e17. at best it can make a
> > duplicate of the wallpaper in the background of the pager. the
> > miniatures are literally just themed image things. they just happen
> > to be much nicer now thanks to edje.
> 
> Window snapshots in the pager was actually there for a very brief
> moment, before it got reverted for some reason.  Perhaps Wanderer
> managed to catch that version?  I still don't understand why it was
> reverted, I know lots of people actually ask for it.  I don't actually
> care either way myself, but it's nice eye candy and different.

because doing snapshots is horribly expensive and it doesnt keep up with
content changes etc. if u are doing proper miniatures, then use the compositing
infra and frankly thats not possible (well not easy) until we make compositing
core and make everything a single nice canvas. :)

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The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler)    ras...@rasterman.com


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