Bug 447895

Summary:	"breeze" is a confusing name for a window switcher
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Andrew Brouwers <abrouwers>
Component:	Theme - Breeze	Assignee:	visual-design
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.23.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	6.0
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Description Andrew Brouwers 2022-01-03 20:41:29 UTC

SUMMARY
(Sorry if this is mis-filed!).

I dislike the default alt-tab visualization.  After browsing settings, I finally found Window Management -> Task Switcher, and "Visualization."  Personally, I think "Breeze" and "Breeze Dark" are pretty poorly named, since they provide very different visualizations not tied to the color.  For example, I prefer "Breeze Dark" regardless if I'm using light or dark colors.  I really don't agree with the justification that light vs. dark even warrants a separate visualization (why not just use the same default for both?), but that's probably a different argument :-)

Any thoughts on simply renaming these to something not tied to light & dark theme?

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-01-12 20:02:27 UTC

I agree. IMO There should be only one and it should follow the Plasma theme's colors, and it should be called "Sidebar" or something like that.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2023-01-13 21:43:48 UTC

Partially fixed with https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/merge_requests/3436. With that, there will no longer be a "Breeze Dark" task switcher.

There will still be a "Breeze" task switcher until we rename it to something like "Sidebar". See also https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/issues/53 and https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-desktop/-/issues/63

Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-05-17 18:57:34 UTC

This Task Switcher has been renamed to "Sidebar" in Plasma 6 (and moved into the kdeplasma-addons repo).