Merge lp://staging/~mc-return/compiz/compiz.merge-plugin-animationjc into lp://staging/compiz/0.9.8

I feel like animationjc and animationextra should probably be merged into either animation or animationaddon. Two less plugins to maintain. Thoughts?

Black Hole, Flicker, Ghost, Popcorn & Raindrop

Sam, I would fully agree on that.
I have a few other ideas regarding the simplification and optimization of CCSM in general as well: For example hiding plug-ins that depend on other plug-ins and make no sense being shown in CCSM and just confuse the user (like hiding all cube-related plug-ins in CCSM if the cube is disabled for example), but that is offtopic here and requires some other place of discussion I guess ;)

There is another animations-plug-in that is missing, but currently crashes latest Compiz versions (but did already work in 0.9.x series). It is called simple-animations (Animations that are easy on the eyes). What should we do with that one, Sam ?

I guess animations-add-on was just separated to introduce and define a "Animation Time Step For Intense Effects" which can differ from the "Animation Time Step" usually used, but this function could be moved to one plug-in also, so it won't get lost...

Animationaddon exist so that distributions don't have to ship huge binaries of stuff they don't use ;-)

In any case, I'll get around to looking at the best way to approach this soon. It will take a low priority though over the next few weeks since we really need to ramp up efforts to fix up the OpenGL|ES work before I go on holiday since I won't even have a computer -.- .

Thanks for looking into that issue.
Unfortunately I found out that exactly those plug-ins here, which I merged first, do not seem to work with latest Compiz 0.9.7.8 anymore. :(
I can enable "Animations Experimental" and change settings, but when I select one of those 5 plug-ins (Black Hole, Flicker, Ghost, Popcorn & Raindrop) in "Animations" (for the Open-animation for example) they simply do not work. They do not crash Compiz, but they seem to not be executed either. :(

This branch keeps failing to build (when merged with lp:compiz)

In file included from /home/dan/bzr/compiz/tmp.jc/plugins/animationjc/src/popcorn.cpp:1:0:
/home/dan/bzr/compiz/tmp.jc/plugins/animationjc/src/private.h:6:33: fatal error: composite/composite.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.

I tried to investigate what exactly is the problem here, but did not find out yet.
The strange thing about this error is that composite/composite.h should exist and the other animation plug-ins use almost the same code.
Another strangeness here is the fact that it compiles as standalone plug-in (but does not work then), but does not compile when merged with lp:compiz.

The PLUGINDEPS opengl and composite are missing to fix compilation here.

Unfortunately I am having problems to upload to launchpad since a few days, I hope I'll be able to fix this soonish though.