Bug 512257

Summary: New feature: Bring back the ring switcher as an alternative possible task switcher
Product: [I don't know] kde Reporter: Sven Olaf Oostenbrink <so.oostenbrink>
Component: generalAssignee: Unassigned bugs <unassigned-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: normal CC: kde
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description Sven Olaf Oostenbrink 2025-11-17 19:15:42 UTC 
In the (long long ago, > 5 years ago) past, I used KDE with compiz that had a task switcher called "ring switcher", that would show the current task windows all together in the shape of a 3D-ring with the bottom part of that ring being very close to the screen, displaying larger windows, and the top part being "further away", showing very small windows.

I currently use the flip switcher which works so-so okay-ish, but it is often still hard to see exactly what window I am looking for. I recall that the ring switcher being awesome for 

1. It had ALL windows directly visible. The bottom ones being larger, top one smaller, but all were visible and it was very easy to switch to the correct window when you had 20 windows open on your desktop
2. It looked amazing, which I used as a bling-bling selling feature of why KDE and Linux are so awesome to work with

I don't think KDE has ever had such a thing, which was really sad, because I remember it was actually very useful.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Kubuntu 25.10
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.17.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.17.0-6-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 12 × AMD Ryzen 5 7600X 6-Core Processor
Memory: 64 GiB of RAM (62.0 GiB usable)
Graphics Processor 1: AMD Radeon RX 7600
Graphics Processor 2: AMD Radeon Graphics
Comment 1 David Edmundson 2025-11-18 22:33:09 UTC 
We are not adding gimmicks upstream.
Comment 2 Sven Olaf Oostenbrink 2025-11-19 21:47:56 UTC 
Where would this need to be added, then? 

I would also not call this a gimmick because half of KDE could technically be called that. I know its bling, I use this sort of bling 
1) because its actually useful, it shows all the available windows and its very clear what is being done 
2) to show people how awesome KDE is to try and get them to switch to linux from windows or mac

Where would I have to go for this?