Add slice animation when showing/hidding guake

[lennart]

Three very important points why the quake console is still much better

- There need to be no ugly gtk bars. That ruins the quake feeling. So at the option you can hide the tab bar, and replace it with a little border like Quake's. - Quake console has real transparency (at least the client I used), Guake has not. I want to see my gnome windows behind Quake. - The Quake console slides in to the screen nice and slowly, Guake just pops up

Fix these and I will be very happy!

[pingou]

Euh I am confused are you talking about yakuake ?

For your concern:

• In the latest git version the gtk bar can be removed
• see bug #87 for something in the same spirit
• See bug #12

So only remains the The Quake console slides in to the screen nice and slowly, Guake just pops up

Btw patches are welcome ! ;)

[lennart]

Hehe sorry for not looking to similar bug :p

I'm talking about Quake when I say Quake... Isn't the idea Yakuake based on the gameconsole which is made popular by the game Quake?

Also I'd like to add one thing: it would be cool if the guake console would be really on top of the screen, so not underneath the top gnome panel.

Unfortunately my python skills are not (yet) good enough to make patches, but maybe some other time :D. Anyways, I'm going to check out the latest git version :)

[lincoln]

Humm, you reported too many things in a single ticket =/

As pingou said, some things you reported are already being developed, so I think the best thing I can do is rename this ticket to explain the last thing you asked and nobody has reported, the slice animation =)

Thank you.

[lincoln]

Replying to lennart:

Also I'd like to add one thing: it would be cool if the guake console would be really on top of the screen, so not underneath the top gnome panel.

Hmm, I'm not sure if it is possible to be done in gnome, once metacity has a special code to reserve space on the screen to the gnome-panel. And is it really useful? I'm not sure that gnome-users would like to hide they gnome-panel when running guake.

[gw0]

Replying to pingou:

So only remains the The Quake console slides in to the screen nice and slowly, Guake just pops up

Imho animations and effects just waste precious CPU cicles. So there should be an option to turn it off, if someone will implement it. :)

[andrei]

I humbly suggest this  http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=197409

It's a guide to combine compiz with guake to get quake :) My guake has some nice flames (the guide minimizes the burn effect (minimal settings), but I thought it would be nicer to let that fire there...) They don't mention that you need to enable Advanced Animations in the Compiz Control Panel... I think the tutorial is a bit old, but I found everything in the latest Compiz version.

[bdemirkir]

Compiz does animation work well. There's no need to add another animation functionality i think.

[grok]

Hi, I've installed guake and searched in vain for that feature. the lack of it is very confusing, as even the wikipedia article says : "Its design was inspired from consoles in computer games such as Quake which slide down from the top of the screen when a key is pressed, and slide back up when the key is pressed again."

Compiz would be fine and it's nice to learn about its general purpose abilities, but I use many computers without 3D acceleration including my main one.

I have the top gnome-panel rearranged and set to auto-hide on the left btw. I would like to waste CPU cycles on that, as firefox and xorg are wasting them without doing anything of value ;)