compiz: initiation of scale plugin doesn't work correctly

Previously it worked better: Press and release got in to the selection mode. Then it required a selection or the escape key to exit the selection mode.

Now as stated above it is just unusable since you have to hold the key down during the selection. Release of the key will cause the selection mode to abort.

The best solution would be to work as the old behaviour with the slight modification to accept the same keypress to exit the selection mode as you use to enter it.

If you have f12 to get in to selection mode I see this workflow:
f12 (press and release) gets you to the selection mode.
Select a window or f12 (press and release) exits the selection mode. I can see that escape might be good to accept also.

I think this bug is quite urgent since it makes the scale plugin totally useless.

By looking at the compiz code it seems that both KeyPress and KeyRelease will cause scaleInitiate to be called. But there are no way for that function to determine which one of them where used. If the type was provided it would be easy to just ignore one or the other.

src/event.c
and
plugins/scale.c

seems to be the related files.

Note: I only spent 5 mins looking at this and I don't know the compiz code so I may be totally wrong here...

Confirming this issue, which is really annoying and renders the scale plugin (which i previously found the most useful) completely useless for me.

It appears that the compiz team is aware of this bug and someone's created a fix:

http://forum.compiz-fusion.org/showthread.php?p=67739

all we need now is for an ubuntu dev to integrate his patch.
This is coming from this forum post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=6126675

It's been a little while, can we get any acknowledgement from a package maintainer somehow? I'm unsure of the procedure once the bug report is here and it's still not getting integrated, do we contact the package maintainer?

And what about it? I don't like current situation: one of the most important
features (mb the most important) doesn't work.

2008/11/26 fatalGlory <email address hidden>

> It's been a little while, can we get any acknowledgement from a package
> maintainer somehow? I'm unsure of the procedure once the bug report is
> here and it's still not getting integrated, do we contact the package
> maintainer?
>
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> compiz: initiation of scale plugin doesn't work correctly
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/281911
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This bug was fixed in the package compiz - 1:0.7.8-0ubuntu5

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compiz (1:0.7.8-0ubuntu5) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Michael Vogt ]
  * patch cleanup with compiz upstream, removed:
    - 0001-Make-sure-that-unredirected-fullscreen-windows-are-f.patch
    - 0003-Move-input-focus-back-to-the-active-window-after-red.pat
    - 015-disable-glib-plugin.patch
    - 019_fix_wnck_2.19.4.patch
    - 022_fix_session_managment.patch
    - 024_add_config_notify.patch
    - 031_add_compiz_common.patch
    - 038_from_git_fix_incomplete_rotate.patch
    - 043-blur-plugin-fix-from-git.patch
    - 043-new-gnome-session.patch
  * removed no longer applied patches from the repo too
  * debian/rules
    - fix build failure with latest control center
  * debian/control:
    - add missing libgnomeui-dev build-depends
  * rebuild against latest libgnome-desktop-dev

  [ Christopher James Halse Rogers ]
  * debian/patches/050-scale-keybinding-toggle.patch
    - Allow setting the scale initiate keybinding as a toggle (LP: #281911).
      Patch from upstream git.
  * debian/patches/051-new-kde4-plasma-api.patch
    - PanelSvg has been renamed to FrameSvg in KDE 4.2. Upstream bug is
      https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18637

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Wed, 17 Dec 2008 21:19:13 +0100

can this fix be backported to intrepid-updates or intrepid-updates?

I second Alex' request. IMHO this bug deserves a backport to Intrepid.

Any updates on this bug ? Would be great to see this fix in the backport !!

I'd also be very happy about a backport to Intrepid. Please? For me, "scale" via a key press is the single most useful feature of Compiz.

I also really like Mattias' new suggestion of having it exit selection mode when pressing the key again. Don't know if that's been implemented in the fix.

Thanks for all who do all the hard work of fixing bugs and updating packages!

I'd also be happy to see this fixed! It's been a few months since scale has worked properly, and I eventually forgot about it until now.

Another supporter for Intrepid backport... this was a very useful tool when it worked.