Re: Desktop Effects

[Jens Granseuer <jensgr gmx net>]

Matthias Clasen wrote:
> I don't know if you have seen it yet, but Ubuntu has recently patched
> the appearance capplet to include a "Desktop Effects" tab. I don't
> know if they plan to upstream that, but we already had plans to do the
> same (even if our idea was not to make it three check boxes that
> essentially amount to a crack - more crack - insane crack slider). So
> I think it makes sense to do this upstream for 2.22.

That's bug 461730 [1].

As I said in a orevious posting when this topic came up, it would
be nice to know what the differences between the distros are in
that respect. I know they exist, but that's about it. I've seen
the Ubuntu one because it's attached to the bug, but only knowing
this one approach I don't feel I have the means to decide whether
that's the best option there is or whether another distro's
solution would maybe be better.

I think Bastien suggested making a page in the wiki where the different
"extra effects" tabs/capplets/whatever could be introduced, and I agreethat  
would be a good idea. We could easily reuse the appearance capplet
page [2], for example.

Jens

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=461730
[2] http://live.gnome.org/ControlCenter/AppearanceSettings