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Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

Registered: 2010-03-30

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[REQUEST] Unity's/Compiz Modal Dialog plugin

Hello,

Would it be possible to get Unity's/Compiz's Modal Dialogs on Arch? I'm not that much of a programmer myself, but to me it seems like you'd have to install Ubuntu's Compiz package. It still is a plugin though, so I got some hope that some of you could still write a PKGBUILD for this. Sorry for not including the dependencies and such, but that is because of the above reason.

Thanks for your time!

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rufflove

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From: Holmfirth, UK

Registered: 2010-11-22

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Re: [REQUEST] Unity's/Compiz Modal Dialog plugin

Shame it has been added as a Unity plugin rather than being added to the core. "Unity" ... Is the name intentionally ironic? There is an out-of-date Unity package on the AUR - I would start enquiries there, if I were you.

Last edited by rufflove (2011-07-07 01:28:09)

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triplesquarednine

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Registered: 2011-04-12

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Re: [REQUEST] Unity's/Compiz Modal Dialog plugin

i would bet that if you wait a while smspillaz (the head developer of Compiz, who works for Canonical now) will probably push this plugin into master (git). probably once he feels that it is stable...

One example; i first saw the 'grid' plugin's FX (the animated frames) appear in Unity, then a while later it was merged into git/master.

I'm sure if you mentioned interest either at his blog;

http://smspillaz.wordpress.com/

visit his youtube channel, and message/comment about it.

http://www.youtube.com/user/smSpillaz

or contact compiz-devs some other way... you could put it out there more directly. i don't think posting in the Arch forums will have any impact at all, on what plugins are pulled from Unity into Compiz. sure someone might make a pkgbuild, but it probably is something that should be done upstream and like i said - this will most likely be added to the master branch, you probably won't even need to get in contact at all.

if you look at the compiz.org cgit/gitweb logs, you'll see that compiz-devs merge into master/git from other branches all the time. they merge to master from a few branches such as the bzr branch, where this plugin currently is currently living, launchpad ~unity-team, etc.

http://cgit.compiz.org/compiz/core/log/

that's my 2 cents, cheerz

Unia

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From: Stockholm, Sweden

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Re: [REQUEST] Unity's/Compiz Modal Dialog plugin

Thank you both. It's worth a try posting on the blog, and otherwise we'll just wait and see.

Last edited by Unia (2011-07-07 10:02:16)

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If you can't sit by a cozy fire with your code in hand enjoying its simplicity and clarity, it needs more work. --Carlos Torres