compiz - Nov 2007 - Check behaviour of Compiz Fusion KDE 0.6.2-3.1

Check behaviour of Compiz Fusion KDE 0.6.2-3.1

Hello,

I am trying out the release "Compiz Fusion KDE 0.6.2-3.1" on my
openSUSE system.
I would like to share some more experiences about its usability.

1. Context menu by title bar
1.1 The context/actions menu that appears after a right click on the window
title is displayed in English despite German is my primary language in the
regional settings.
I assume that translations will be improved in the near future.

1.2 The menu "To Desktop" shows only two entries. The KDE desktop
switcher
applet offers me eight buttons for workplaces.

1.3 I can move a window to the desktop 2. This has got the unexpected effect
that it vanishes from the title list by the KDE control bar. Is the task bar
setting "Show windows from all desktops" not respected?

1.4 A similar effect can happen if I switch to the second desktop. The titles
from the first desktop are not shown.
The pager seems also to "forget" the first one.


2. Apparent program errors
The software "kde-window-decorator" crashed yesterday after a bit of
looking around.
I guess that the same issue was reported by "tribunal" already.
http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=5584


3. Application switching
It can happen that a garbled "preview" is displayed after several
switches with
the key "Alt+Tab".


4. After a reboot
4.1 The item "Compiz Fusion Icon" is not automatically executed after
a login
because I did not put it into the autostart. But the eight workplace buttons are
still displayed by the KDE desktop switcher applet.

4.2 If I click on "2", the KDE control bar is not visible any more on
the second
desktop (even no panel-hiding button). I expect that it should stay accesible on
all my desktops on the top.

4.3 If I return to the first desktop by scrolling with the mouse wheel, the
button number is resetted to the value that was specified by the setting
"Number
of desktops".

Regards,
Markus
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Le Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:43:12 +0100,
Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring at web.de> a ?crit :
> Check behaviour of Compiz Fusion KDE 0.6.2-3.1
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying out the release "Compiz Fusion KDE 0.6.2-3.1" on my
> openSUSE system. I would like to share some more experiences about
> its usability.
> 
> 1. Context menu by title bar
> 1.1 The context/actions menu that appears after a right click on the
> window title is displayed in English despite German is my primary
> language in the regional settings.
> I assume that translations will be improved in the near future.
Suse issue...
> 1.2 The menu "To Desktop" shows only two entries. The KDE desktop
> switcher applet offers me eight buttons for workplaces.
You have 2 desktop and 4 viewports, it's normal...
> 1.3 I can move a window to the desktop 2. This has got the unexpected
> effect that it vanishes from the title list by the KDE control bar.
> Is the task bar setting "Show windows from all desktops" not
> respected?
Kde bug... (viewport support)
> 1.4 A similar effect can happen if I switch to the second desktop.
> The titles from the first desktop are not shown.
> The pager seems also to "forget" the first one.
Kde bug... (viewport support)
> 3. Application switching
> It can happen that a garbled "preview" is displayed after several
> switches with the key "Alt+Tab".
No problem here so it may be a bug in your driver
 
> 4. After a reboot
> 4.1 The item "Compiz Fusion Icon" is not automatically executed
after
> a login because I did not put it into the autostart. But the eight
> workplace buttons are still displayed by the KDE desktop switcher
> applet.
Because you select compiz in kdm?
> 4.2 If I click on "2", the KDE control bar is not visible any
more on
> the second desktop (even no panel-hiding button). I expect that it
> should stay accesible on all my desktops on the top.
Kde bug... (viewport support)
> 4.3 If I return to the first desktop by scrolling with the mouse
> wheel, the button number is resetted to the value that was specified
> by the setting "Number of desktops".
Kde bug... (viewport support)
> Regards,
> Markus
To use viewport with kde, use this:

http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/taskbar-compiz?content=49484
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kicker-compiz?content=46021

C?dric.

> To use viewport with kde, use this:
> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/taskbar-compiz?content=49484
> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kicker-compiz?content=46021
Thanks for your answer.
I hope that the support for current features will be improved with KDE4.
http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spec/wm-spec-1.4.html#largedesks

Regards,
Markus

>> 1.1 The context/actions menu that appears after a right click on the
>> window title is displayed in English despite German is my primary
>> language in the regional settings.
>> I assume that translations will be improved in the near future.
> 
> Suse issue...
The entries are correctly translated before Compiz Fusion is started.
Is there any GUI synchronisation involved via the desktop communication protocol
to retrieve the correct labels?

Regards,
Markus

Hi,
> 2. Apparent program errors
> The software "kde-window-decorator" crashed yesterday after a bit
of looking around.
> I guess that the same issue was reported by "tribunal" already.
> http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?t=5584
This problem is already fixed in both git head and 0.6 branch.

Regards,

Danny