Bug 413598

Summary:	Closing a window in "Present Windows" should not change the layout
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Alexander Ewering <ae>
Component:	effects-present-windows	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	k2squared, kde, nate
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:

Description Alexander Ewering 2019-10-29 15:58:26 UTC

When closing a window, the windows are rearranged. When closing multiple windows in one go (probably not an uncommon scenario), this breaks the mental flow and slows down the process.

In my opinion (tm), closing a window should simply not trigger a re-layout. Maybe make it an option!

Comment 1 k2squared 2019-12-01 07:12:55 UTC

Agree.

While the windows become larger as some are closed, and it becomes easier to identify what's in each window, every time they change position the user has to perform another visual scan of all windows to tell what's what.

Windows that were already identified when the effect is first invoked have to be visually re-scanned and mentally re-processed once they move, and this repeats for every window closed. The cognitive workload increases much more than any benefit one might get from having the windows get bigger.

Comment 2 k2squared 2019-12-01 07:47:23 UTC

Seems it was discussed in 2013, but is still open:

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=315314

Comment 3 David Edmundson 2019-12-01 12:54:21 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 315314 ***