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Omnimaxus

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Registered: 2024-12-02

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Question about XFCE, Wayland, and window animations ...

Hi to everyone.  I have a question.  Now that the next version of XFCE has been confirmed for release with Wayland soon, do we know anything about if the inclusion of Wayland will mean actual window animations?  Fade in, fade out; that kind of thing?  I understand about XFCE being a "lightweight" and "classic" desktop environment, but honestly, with much of the hardware out there (including the older kind, even), I would imagine that it's mostly able enough to handle window animations, especially in a desktop environment that's already considered "lightweight" by itself.  And Wayland is a whole different game, too.  It's supposed to modernize desktop environments.  So will that modernization be extended to window (and menu?) animations for when users close them, open them, and so on?  Thanks.

Tamaranch

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Registered: 2020-12-31

Posts: 324

Re: Question about XFCE, Wayland, and window animations ...

All this is managed by the compositor, and Xfce doesn't yet have a compositor (a port of xfwm4 is planned, but has barely begun). So it depends on the compositor you use. With wayfire, for example, everything you're talking about is supported, I think.