The option can currently be activated from Virtual Desktops Settings -> Advanced. A better home and preview would be better for these settings.
In more detail, this option can make a wallpaper, larger than the geometry of the zone, scroll appropriately with each desk change. Consider a nice panorama picture, which is as wide as the total desks' width. Then, at most, E will scroll the background by 1 / (number of desks) for each desk change. The direction of the scrolling is dependent on the desk change itself. Also, the user can specify a coefficient of maximum scrolling for each axis. If the coefficient is 0, the wallpaper will not move.
More advanced animations can be constructed with edje. The data item "directional_freedom" "(1|0) (1|0)" can toggle the actual wallpaper scrolling done by E for each axis. A message with the current x/y position, panning w|h, and zone w|h is sent to the background edje with each desk change animation tick. An example embryo script that handles the message, and changes a hypothetical "a1" part in the "e/desktop/background" group is shown below:
public message(Msg_Type:type, id, ...) {
if (type == MSG_INT_SET) {
new x = getarg(2);
new y = getarg(3);
// new max_x = getarg(4);
// new max_y = getarg(5);
// new w = getarg(6);
// new h = getarg(7);
custom_state(PART:"a1", "default", 0.0);
set_state_val(PART:"a1", STATE_FILL_POS, 0.0, 0.0, -x / 4, -y / 4);
set_state(PART:"a1", "custom", 0.0);
}
}
SVN revision: 40543
* e_border_center() will center window in a better way, accounting
the shelves/panels instead of just centering on the screen. This is
better and most noticeable if screens are small and a big shelf on
just one edge.
* e_border_move_without_border(), e_border_resize_without_border()
and e_border_move_resize_without_border() will assume the given
values do not acount border/decorations (client_inset) and will do
automatically. As stated in documentation, this is specially useful
when it is a new client and thus have no decorations when it is
positioned, when decorations are added window would be placed at
wrong position. One can try this by adding efwin window overflowing
the bottom-right corner, closing it and when reopen fileman would
try to make it inside the screen, this would not work well with
part of the window still being outside.
* e_win_move(), e_win_resize() and e_win_move_resize() will now use
new e_border functions.
SVN revision: 40307
between all ecore graphic engine to ease porting of application and reduce the amount of
specific code per engine. This patch does just that.
All your application should continu to work has previously, if it's not the case
please report any new behaviour regarding mouse and keyboard.
SVN revision: 39505
Handle mouse clicks inside the edge input windows so that menus & such can
still be shown if a user clicks the mouse down while on top of one of the
edge windows.
SVN revision: 33258
2. quickly add a new icon for "removable devices"
3. add removable device support to e17's fm - via dbus/hal. seems to work
well :) (requires pmount to mount devices though)
SVN revision: 28143
2. fixes to patches to re-enable smooth scale again
3. fixes to make txtblock colors work
4. fixes to edje for premul + grad api changes
5. fixes to ecore to work in premul space
6. fixes to e17 for premul space
7. fixes to emotion for premul
8. rebuild of .edj files as premul requires themes to be rebuilt
9. removed unused fils from cvs (eap and old img files)
SVN revision: 26235