Unity

Merge lp://qastaging/~3v1n0/unity/alt+tab-background-load into lp://qastaging/unity

alt+tab-background-load
Merge into trunk

Proposed by Marco Trevisan (Treviño) on 2012-02-25

Status:

Merged

Approved by:

Marco Trevisan (Treviño) on 2012-03-13

Approved revision:

no longer in the source branch.

Merged at revision:

2091

Proposed branch:

lp://qastaging/~3v1n0/unity/alt+tab-background-load

Merge into:

lp://qastaging/unity

Diff against target:

326 lines (+114/-60)

2 files modified

plugins/unityshell/src/SwitcherController.cpp (+104/-54)
plugins/unityshell/src/SwitcherController.h (+10/-6)

To merge this branch:

bzr merge lp://qastaging/~3v1n0/unity/alt+tab-background-load

Medium

Fix Released

Link a bug report

Reviewer	Date Requested	Status
Andrea Azzarone (community)		Approve on 2012-03-07
Tim Penhey (community)	2012-02-25	Needs Fixing on 2012-03-01
Review via email: mp+94669@code.qastaging.launchpad.net

Description of the change

Add some background operations to the SwitcherController to make the Alt+Tab to show-up quicker

The switcher controller now when initialized setup a lazy timer (now set to 10s) that on timeout will construct the
switcher view, to make the first time usage quicker.

Also, I've added an idle that will run as soon as the user presses the switcher key combination, that constructs the view in background (and shows an invisible window, since the the ShowWindow operation can take longer than just setting the view visible) to make sure that when the show-timeout occurs everything is already there and it just needs to be shown (setting its opacity).

Tests included into the branch lp:~3v1n0/unity/alt+tab-background-load.tests