| Summary: | Large Icons task switcher cuts off icons when many apps are open | ||
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| Product: | [Plasma] kwin | Reporter: | twisst <jdmeijers> |
| Component: | tabbox | Assignee: | KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | jdmeijers, nate |
| Priority: | NOR | Keywords: | usability |
| Version First Reported In: | 6.5.2 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | Other | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| See Also: | https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=515540 | ||
| Latest Commit: | https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/b6b88a79cbbc2e0379643023943a2592838f71c5 | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | 6.6.0 |
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| Attachments: | main.qml for the big icons task switcher that makes icon size dynamic. | ||
Wrapping to the next line would probably be better than scrolling here. That way everything is always in view. A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/merge_requests/962 Git commit b6b88a79cbbc2e0379643023943a2592838f71c5 by Christoph Wolk. Committed on 01/01/2026 at 18:07. Pushed by cwo into branch 'master'. kwin/windowswitchers: allow big_icons to use multiple rows When there is not enough space to show all icons in the big_icons switcher, it cuts off the list and scrolls through it as the user moves the currentIndex. This makes it hard to see all the open windows even if there is in principle enough space on the screen to show them all. Instead, we use a gridView, similar to how the thumbnail grid works. In contrast to thumbnail grid, which tries to build the best grid, we still want this to feel like a list, so we do not copy its layouting algorithm but instead just fill up a row of icons as usual, only it is allowed to wrap onto new rows as necessary. The tabbox does not handle dialog height resizing well, so we wrap it in an instantiator that creates it fresh, again similarly to how the thumbnail grid handles it. M +37 -24 kwin/windowswitchers/big_icons/contents/ui/main.qml https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kdeplasma-addons/-/commit/b6b88a79cbbc2e0379643023943a2592838f71c5 |
Created attachment 187698 [details] main.qml for the big icons task switcher that makes icon size dynamic. The Large Icons task switcher scrolls the icons when there are too many to fit the screen. This happens when there are a lot of windows open. It is hiding the icons, which is making this task switcher much less useful. STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Set task switcher visualization to 'Large Icons'. 2. Open a lot of applications. 3. Alt+Tab. OBSERVED RESULT Icons that do not fit the horizontal row are out of view. EXPECTED RESULT It should be scaling the icons down to keep them all in view. (This is how a certain other OS is doing it.) SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux/KDE Plasma: 6.14.0-117036-tuxedo (64-bit) KDE Plasma Version: 6.5.2 KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0 Qt Version: 6.9.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION I applied a fix to the task switcher to change the behaviour on my machine. (I also took out the label with the application name and made the height of the panel dynamic as well so it wraps the scaled-down icons nicely.) I was looking where to offer it as a pull request but the original version in my distro (/usr/share/kwin/tabbox/big_icons/contents/ui/main.qml) does not match the one I found in the repository so that is why I attach the file here as an attachment so others may use it.