AIGLX / XGL related work

Is this the right forum to discuss 2D graphics acceleration
related RFEs
to Metacity (along the lines of what Compiz does)? Are there
development
efforts in progress where I can be of assistance?

Compiz is currently the commonly used window-manager for
acceleration
enabled desktops (aiglx/xgl). I, for one, prefer metacity
over compiz
(omitting compiz rant).

Below is the list of eye-candy that I find useful in compiz
and would
like to help implement in Metacity:
1. Fade-in newly created windows and menus; Fade-out closed
windows 
   and menus; Organic minimize and maximize
   - Makes the desktop experience feel very smooth and
seamless
2. Exposé (think MacOS) type view of all open windows 
   - Easy to switch between windows or keep an eye on
multiple
     windows without changing their actual size.
3. Alt-Tab strip (think Vista style)
   - See contents of window in the strip
   - Dim other windows in the background except for selected
4. Real transparency

Next, list of eye-candy that I don't use but can see being
useful:
1. Desktop on a cube
   - Each workspace on a cube, rotate cube when switching
   - (I use a single workspace)
2. Workspace Strip
   - See adjacent workspaces in a film-strip (up to 3)

Compiz stuff I don't care much about (have disabled):
1. Wobbly windows or menus
2. Rain or water droplet on desktop effect
3. Zooming into or out of windows
   - Perhaps reasonable from an accessibility standpoint
     but not really the window-manager's job

-- 
Saikat
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On 10/7/06, Saikat Guha <saikatcs.cornell.edu> wrote:
> Is this the right forum to discuss 2D graphics
acceleration related RFEs
> to Metacity (along the lines of what Compiz does)? Are
there development
> efforts in progress where I can be of assistance?

Yes.  Soeren has been maintaining that part of metacity so
you'll have
to ask him for details (he should be on this list, so it may
just mean
waiting a bit).  There unfortunately hasn't been a lot of
communication in this area, but I seem to be hearing through
the
grapevine that Soeren and others working on metacity
acceleration may
have decided to instead work on compiz.  You are of course
welcome to
work on metacity's compositor, I'm just pointing that out to
let you
be aware of things.

If the rumors are true, I would like to assist the compiz
folks by
getting metacity's window management capabilities into it
(at least
the ones that make sense; e.g. wireframe is probably better
left in
metacity since I don't see why anyone using compiz would
want it).
And hopefully do it in a way that shares those abilities
between the
two, though I'm worried that may be more work than
independently
maintaining the abilities in both..

Anyway, hopefully Soeren can point out more details...

Hope that helps,
Elijah
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