On Wednesday, March 05, 2014 13:38:04 Marco Martin wrote:
> > I have even thought of making it a separate executable so that people can
> > switch activities even when plasma crashes, but that would take much more
> > memory than if it was inside plasma-shell. Some parts of it need to be
> > always running, to be able to react to meta+tab properly.
> 
> I really don't like the idea of the separate process, really overkill.
> as to "where it is", right now it was managed by the desktop view qml to be 
> able to work well with the active shell as well, where the switcher is very
> minimal, and always on the same window.
> So it needs to be completely replaceable in another shell and needs to be 
> possible to stay in the same window of the main containment.
> 
> it's also derived from how much I'm wary of adding much complexity in the 
> switcher, since if we want people to start to use it we actually have to
> make  it much simpler than is now, rather than more complicated

Speaking of which, the freeze is quickly approaching. It would be good to have 
a basic version in sooner, rather than later.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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