GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 96348
Should have an animation when unminimizing from the window list
Last modified: 2009-03-15 15:20:04 UTC
would be nice if their was an animation when unminimizing from the window list (similar to the animation when launching an app from the panel) this animation should math the metacity animation for consistency. Also is it a bug that the panel launcher animation is different from metacity's?
I'm moving this to metacity. I believe libwnck merely sends a _NET_ACTIVE_WINDOW message and lets Metacity handle it (see xutil.c, function _wnck_activate), so any un-minimization animation would have to be done by Metacity. Let me know if I'm in error. I'm a little curious as to the rationale, though. Is it simply wanted because there's a minimization animation? The minimization animation exists to help users learn where they can access windows that have been minimized. I don't see why the same thing is needed for activated windows.
I suspect this does mostly fall into the 'eye candy' category, although it is occasionally reassuring to know when you're Alt-Tabbing through a list of windows (for example) that the one you've ended up switching to is indeed one that you thought was previously minimized, rather than another instance of the same application that wasn't. This could be one of those things that people don't really miss now because they've never had it, but if it was implemented now and removed later a lot of them would kick up a fuss :)