Currently CoverSwitch uses the effect proxy to render the thumbnail bar. As BoxSwitch is no longer used for window switching the functionality should be moved directly into coverswitch.
Or just drop it? What is the additional switcher supposed to fix/improve? If you've too many windows, the box switch with many tiny windows won't help -> present windows. Otherwise i -personally- find it nothing but distracting to have two window lists at once.
> Or just drop it? Also a valid option. Will think about it :-)
Git commit 096de09a0e308faa944c45bb69723e2907da1b19 by Martin Gräßlin. Committed on 01/04/2012 at 09:04. Pushed by graesslin into branch 'master'. Remove thumbnail bar from CoverSwitch Effect The usage has always been questionable as the thumbnails are too small to properly recognize something. Now BoxSwitch Effect has reach its end of life which would have required to keep most of the code just for this thumbnail bar. If required it would be better to integrate the normal QML based TabBox to be rendered together with an effect. FIXED-IN: 4.11.0 M +0 -18 kwin/effects/coverswitch/coverswitch.cpp M +0 -12 kwin/effects/coverswitch/coverswitch.h M +0 -9 kwin/effects/coverswitch/coverswitch.kcfg M +0 -12 kwin/effects/coverswitch/coverswitch_config.cpp M +0 -3 kwin/effects/coverswitch/coverswitch_config.h M +5 -97 kwin/effects/coverswitch/coverswitch_config.ui http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/096de09a0e308faa944c45bb69723e2907da1b19