Re: improve minimize animation #102175

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> If it is useful, I like to finish the patch. But then I need someone
> to help me with how you are supposed to get an image of the windows
> titlebar. Just like the code for opaque animations in effects.c, my
> patch takes a snapshot of a part of the screen to animate with.
> Problem is that if the titlebar is occluded snapshotting doesn't work.
> I wonder if there is a way to get Metacity to render the titlebar into
> a GdkPixbuf? If so, the patch would be easy to complete.

You might look at how the theme control panel and metacity-theme-viewer 
render the theme previews... that should make it fairly clear how to do 
it. You may need to go to a pixmap instead of pixbuf.

Havoc