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Re: unity launcher with cairo dock effect

 

No probs. We'll do better!

Il giorno venerdì 2 marzo 2012, C. Cooke <ccooke-launchpad@xxxxxxxx> ha
scritto:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2012 at 05:28:44PM +0100, supernova wrote:
>> Hi to all. Did you ever think to add the cairo dock effect to the
>> icons in unity launcher? I mean a zoom effect on passing of the mouse?
>> I don't want to give Unity a osX personality. Just a thought about
>> design.
>>
>
> This one came up recently on this list. It's not currently possible to
> implement such a feature due to patents held by Apple.
>
> (There was a bug report closed due to this:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/751941 )
>
> --
> for((P=10**8,Q=P/100,X=320*Q/(`tput cols`-1),Y=210*Q/`tput
lines`,y=-105*Q,v=-2\
> 20*Q,x=v;y<105*Q;x=v,y+=Y));do for((;x<P;a=b=i=k=c=0,x+=X));do
for((;a*a+b*b<2*\
> P*P&&i++<99;a=((c=a)*a-b*b)/P+x,b=2*c*b/P+y));do
:;done;(((j=(i<99?i%16:0)+30)>\
> 37?k=1,j-=8:0));echo -ne "\E[$k;$j"mE;done;echo -e \\E[0m;done # Charles
Cooke
>

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