Bug 449846

Summary: Missing features for replacing present windows
Product: [Plasma] kwin Reporter: Christian (Fuchs) <kde>
Component: effects-overviewAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: task CC: michael.magyar
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.24.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Christian (Fuchs) 2022-02-09 12:33:50 UTC
As per discussion in the VDG, currently missing features in the overview effect to be able to replace the other effect(s): 

-- needed before replacement

* Show only windows of a specific desktop
* Show only windows of a specific application

(With keybindings each) 

These are needed because e.g. task manager has an option to use the effect in which the windows of a grouped application are shown 

* Possibility to set a flag to disable the virtual desktop bar on top

needed for the above, mostly, since it doesn't make sense to have a desktop bar in this situation 

--- would be good before replacement

* Possibility to configure mouse buttons and their effects, mainly for pulling a window to the current workspace, but also for people who want to disable closing 

* show the window previews of the windows matching the filter you just entered in the text field 


Present windows also has some other options, e.g. ignoring minimized windows and a more fine grained configurability of placement and presentation, not sure if / how often these are used. The above are more functionality than aesthetics and I think at least some of them are a must have before present windows can be replaced.
Comment 1 Vlad Zahorodnii 2022-02-09 12:36:15 UTC
Please create a bug report per issue so it's easier to track. As for these issues in particular, there's already https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=445930.