Comments on: Shelf Plugin preview

By: thet

thet — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 17:47:14 +0000

great plugin!
and i support what peblin stated in post#7: it would rock even more when shelfed windows can handle mouse inputs. left clicks on shelfed windows may not move them around… that does the “Move Window” compiz plugin anyway (+Mouse Button1). i can imagine that this would be no soo easy (also need to scale down mouse positions?)
but it takes keyboard events! so you can zoom in (Enhanced Zoom) and control shelfed windows with the keyboard. really cool.

By: kristian

kristian — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:36:48 +0000

I do read it

Thanks for the feedback people.

There’s no real acceptable way of scaling input. I know Sam is working on doing it in freewins, but frankly, it’s a horribly messy way of doing things.

Hopefully, we’ll have SOME sort of input transformation in X at some random point in time….

By: peblin

peblin — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 08:29:57 +0000

Not sure if anyone reads this - but this plugin is not only a “nice to have” but almost essential when running Compiz on the EEE PC 701. Several windows in Gnome, such as the “user manager”, calculator (in sci mode) and Compiz configuration, are too big for the tiny screen size of 800×480.

The only thing that prevents this plugin from being a true MUST HAVE, is the fact that the window consumes left-clicks for moving the window around. If the window instead where to get the mouse events scaled - oh boy, it would rock! It would make my EEE tremendously more useful.

Many thanks for a great plugin.

By: Phillip

Phillip — Tue, 13 May 2008 19:39:53 +0000

Are you currently working on getting mouse events scaled, so we can still click items while the item is shelved?

If not, That’s a feature I’d love to have, and I wouldn’t mind helping with that, drop me an email later if you’d like.

By: Michael White

Michael White — Sun, 11 May 2008 00:11:06 +0000

Wow. This has the potential to be the most actually useful compiz plugin. It’s amazing.

By: David

David — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 10:13:18 +0000

This looks pretty similar to a feature of Switcher for Vista. Before my days of Linux I tried Vista for a bit and found this program as an OS X expo clone but had a neat docking feature. If you have access to it check it out…I haven’t used it for months so it could have changed, but I remember it to be a nice feature (pity about the whole vista thing)

http://insentient.net/Files/Screenshots/switcher-2704-dock.jpg

By: gavintlgold

gavintlgold — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:10:42 +0000

I hope someday this can be a sort of replacement to minimization, since minimizations can’t have window thumbnails anyway. Maybe even add a button to emerald somehow? It’s got lots of potential, I think. Thanks for the link to my post.

By: Seb

Seb — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 20:29:47 +0000

Excellent ! keep going guys !

By: Vadim P.

Vadim P. — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 16:30:06 +0000

This is really neat. Like Scale, but without the scale!