KWin is currently lacking a window maximize/restore effect. That should be fixed.
Git commit e7be09916a62be6266c9f45d6688dca7eacfa71f by Martin Gräßlin. Committed on 26/10/2012 at 11:50. Pushed by graesslin into branch 'master'. New Maximize Window Effect Animation for going from restored to maximized and vice versa. FIXED-IN: 4.10 REVIEW: 107050 M +1 -0 kwin/effects/CMakeLists.txt A +1 -0 kwin/effects/maximize/CMakeLists.txt A +6 -0 kwin/effects/maximize/package/CMakeLists.txt A +60 -0 kwin/effects/maximize/package/contents/code/maximize.js A +21 -0 kwin/effects/maximize/package/metadata.desktop http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/e7be09916a62be6266c9f45d6688dca7eacfa71f
hi Martin, that's smooth, but now i feel the lack of animation when a widow is pushed to side borders and automatically resized to half/a quarter of screen size. i feel that animating this kind of action is the necessary next step to take cheers