Hi all, Unfortunately, I wasn't able to join the hangout today to discuss this (I'll be mostly away for this week).
So, the issue is that: 1) the activity switcher opens up too slow. The user would expect for it to be shown instantaneously. At first, my plan was to add a delay, check whether the meta key is still pressed and then show the switcher (the same behaviour as alt+tab), but that was not possible due to slow opening. 2) If the activities in plasma are not initialized, that is, the user didn't switch to each of them at some point before invoking meta+tab (and keeping meta pressed), plasmashell dead-locks for some reason. Which I haven't found the source yet. So, from what I see here, there are two things needed to fix this. 1) Make opening the activity switcher fast. That would need to throw away the lazy loading that we currently have. And I'm not sure that would be a sufficient improvement. 2) Make it a part of kwin (apologies to M.G. for this one). It could use the same QML elements as the real activity switcher, but without the search bar and the stopped activities that need to go away for meta+tab in any case. Advantages for this would be that kwin already has a global instance of KActivities::Consumer class, which means it keeps the cached list of activities - no need for anything to be loaded on meta+tab apart from the QML delegates. Thoughts? Cheerio, Ivan KDE, ivan.cukic at kde.org, http://ivan.fomentgroup.org/ gpg key id: 850B6F76, keyserver.pgp.com _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
