Re: Composited locate mouse effect

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2008-01-17 at 13:18 +0100, Carlos Garnacho wrote:
> Hi!,
> 
> Now that metacity has a composite manager, I thought it'd be nice to
> have a "locate mouse" effect that's more appealing than the current
> one :), so here's my try!
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/locate-pointer-composited.gif
> 
> You can see the code at:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~carlosg/stuff/random/locate-mouse.tar.bz2
> 
> At the moment it's separated from the g-s-d source, but it won't be hard
> to replace, it's still missing code to do the old animation if there's
> no composite available, though.
> 
yes, and it's missing the -plugin/-manager thing for the
gnome-settings-module.
 
> Another pending issue is that it uses a GtkInvisible to get events from,
> but GtkInvisible currently isn't able to receive style-set signals, so
> changing theme ends doesn't update the effect color. While that gets
> fixed, it should either use a hardcoded color or find another way to get
> an updated GtkStyle.
> 
> To see the effect, just click on the window in the test app, would it be
> possible to get it in for 2.22? I'd consider this just an UI change :)
> 
I like it, provided you adapt it to be included into
gnome-settings-daemon and add the non-composite-case code :-)
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>