http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian Just another Dev.compiz-fusion.org weblog Fri, 18 Jan 2008 13:23:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've started my bachelor final year project last week with Christian Frøseth and Eirik Askheim, and we'll be working on visual improvements in the Totem media player. Our main focus will be the full screen ui, redesigning it with Cairo/Composite effects. Given this context, I'm very much looking for input and ideas ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2008/01/18/bachelor-final-year-project-to-improve-totem/ The maximumize plugin was invented during the ubuntu developer summit, and is incredibly simple at the moment. All it does is resize a window so it fits the largest available space it's in. That is, if you have two terminals, maximumizing both will fill screen. This is convenient for using all ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/12/18/the-maximumize-plugin/ I've been working on a new Compiz Fusion plugin currently known as Shelf (it was named miniwin2 for a brief period, more on this further down). This is a fairly straight forward idea, and I'm doing this as a bounty for Canonical. What it does is simple: It visually scales a ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/12/12/shelf-plugin-preview/ It's been somewhat quiet from the Compiz and Compiz Fusion front lately, relatively speaking, and there's a reason for that. A while back, David Reveman started working on what is known as the "object framework" for Compiz, which represent the single biggest do-over that Compiz has had since it's inception. To ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/12/06/the-way-ahead-for-compiz/ I just got back from FOSS Camp and the Ubuntu Developer Summit, and that was quite a rush. Technically, I am writing this on Logal Airport in Boston, waiting for my flight to board to go back home. I am not going to go into details about that was discussed, there ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/11/03/foss-camp-and-ubuntu-developer-summit/ I just got back from the GNOME Boston Summit, and spent quite a few hours traveling with my laptop at hand. This brings up the question whether Compiz Fusion is suited to be run on a laptop on battery power or not. My current laptop is a HP Compaq NC4010, with ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/10/09/compiz-fusion-on-a-laptop/ I'm currently at day two of the GNOME Boston summit, and I spent time yesterday discussing and pushing some of my orca hacks off to Joanmarie who're going to fix them up and get Orca talking to eZoom. We talked about creating a new API for general accessibility functionality to complement ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/10/07/ezoom-orca-and-gnome-boston/ I recently participated in a Compiz Fusion development sprint in London to make sure Compiz Fusion is a smooth experience in Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon, to be released this month, with Compiz Fusion by default. We fixed some very specific issues, and generally smoothed things over. The wrapper script that is now ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/10/02/compiz-fusion-in-gutsy-compiz-fusion-on-older-atis/ Summer of code is over, and by and large, things are working. I've gotten some text-caret stuff working through python, but on the POC level, and this would be the only missing part of my project, which I personally believe have exceeded the original goal in other areas. We WILL ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/08/25/xfixes-the-problem-and-the-dirty-workaround/ After several months of work, we are finally ready to present Compiz Fusion as a release, Compiz Fusion 0.5.2. The version number is derived from the Compiz version number we're basing the release on, and is a developer release. Just like compiz just branched 0.6.0, we will be branching Compiz Fusion ... http://dev.compiz-fusion.org/~kristian/2007/08/13/compiz-fusion-released/