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How can I contribute a new Icon Effect?

Asked by zachery sharon

I'd like to make/suggest a new "Icon Effect" that zooms the icon on hovering, but also zooms the nearby icons by a proportional amount. As in: .....ooOoo....., much like the os x doc does.

I don't expect it would be that hard to do. Is it possible to simply write a plugin, or is this part of the main code?

Thanks,
Zach

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Michal Hruby (mhr3) said : 		#1

Please see http://moon-shiny.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-things-are-way-they-are.html

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zachery sharon (zacherysharon) said : 		#2

Thanks for the link.

So, I gather that even if I wrote an applet that handled the parabolic zoom (create 5+ different zoom levels and feed false mouse-hover calls), it would cause the text dialogs to display on every applet whenever you hovered over one. Fixing that would require changes to the main code.

Oh well, thanks. Maybe if I write a working applet sometime, I could convince the maintainer to handle zoom and the text dialog with different calls (if they aren't already).

Thanks again,
Zach

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Michal Hruby (mhr3) said : 		#3

The main problem is that each applet lives in separate process and synchronizing them to zoom would be non-trivial and require IPC harakiri.

In 0.6 version we plan to move the rendering of the icons into the core process, so that things like this would be actually feasible without IPC magic.

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zachery sharon (zacherysharon) said : 		#4

I look forward to that.

Thanks.