SUMMARY This bug is part of an ongoing effort to rethink the options available in System Settings. The end goal is to consolidate some obscure options to make Plasma feel simpler to use and improve the user experience. I was advised to make individual bug reports with my suggestions. More details with all the suggestions and talking points can be seen in this shared document: https://collaborate.kde.org/s/oEkdeYerKqaZNyC -------- The new Overview effect offers a toggle to enable/disable blur. That option is duplicated since the user can already disable blur by deactivating the blur effect globally in the Effects KCM. A user that doesn't like the effect most likely will want to disable it everywhere anyway, and disabling it only in the overview effect doesn't bring any benefits and only serves to create an inconsistent user experience. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: KDE neon Unstable Edition KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.80 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.91.0 Qt Version: 5.15.3 Kernel Version: 5.13.0-28-generic (64-bit) Graphics Platform: Wayland Processors: 6 × Intel® Core™ i5-9400F CPU @ 2.90GHz Memory: 7,6 GiB of RAM Graphics Processor: Radeon RX 570 Series
In addition, turning off blur here actually worsens the UX because the background distracts you from the windows in the foreground. When blur is disabled globally, this effect should probably have an opaque background to ensure usability.
The blur effect does a different thing. Technically-wise, I would like to avoid adding any inter-dependencies between effects.
Technically that can makes sense, but from a user perspective, it's generally odd to have multiple settings that control the same thing, with each one controlling that thing in only some random-seeming places.
Git commit 028dd552cfb9d826b40b9620d869c98d2aa3dca3 by Niccolò Venerandi. Committed on 25/09/2023 at 13:14. Pushed by niccolove into branch 'master'. Merge desktop grid and overview together with a new three-state design Merges the desktop grid and overview effects together in a new three-state one; you can switch between them with a certain shortcut or gesture, and you can also still access either the desktop grid or overview directly. Default shortcuts are also updated to be Meta+G for Grid, Meta+W for Overview, Meta+Tab to switch between the three states and Meta+Shift+Tab to cycle in the opposite direction. Related: bug 474044, bug 460661, bug 460774, bug 456572, bug 449601, bug 449801, bug 461510, bug 463886, bug 459754, bug 459749, bug 459748, bug 459467 FIXED-IN: 6.0 M +2 -0 CMakeLists.txt A +7 -0 kconf_update/CMakeLists.txt A +20 -0 kconf_update/kwin-6.0-overview-activities-shortcuts.py A +11 -0 kconf_update/kwin.upd M +16 -3 src/libkwineffects/effecttogglablestate.cpp M +3 -1 src/libkwineffects/effecttogglablestate.h M +0 -1 src/plugins/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -49 src/plugins/desktopgrid/CMakeLists.txt D +0 -127 src/plugins/desktopgrid/desktopgrid_config.cpp D +0 -48 src/plugins/desktopgrid/desktopgrid_config.h D +0 -206 src/plugins/desktopgrid/desktopgrid_config.ui D +0 -32 src/plugins/desktopgrid/desktopgridconfig.kcfg D +0 -9 src/plugins/desktopgrid/desktopgridconfig.kcfgc D +0 -250 src/plugins/desktopgrid/desktopgrideffect.cpp D +0 -99 src/plugins/desktopgrid/desktopgrideffect.h D +0 -18 src/plugins/desktopgrid/main.cpp D +0 -92 src/plugins/desktopgrid/metadata.json D +0 -306 src/plugins/desktopgrid/qml/DesktopView.qml D +0 -328 src/plugins/desktopgrid/qml/main.qml M +27 -6 src/plugins/overview/kcm/overvieweffectkcm.cpp M +15 -1 src/plugins/overview/kcm/overvieweffectkcm.ui M +3 -0 src/plugins/overview/overviewconfig.kcfg M +229 -24 src/plugins/overview/overvieweffect.cpp M +37 -16 src/plugins/overview/overvieweffect.h M +44 -36 src/plugins/overview/qml/DesktopBar.qml M +541 -193 src/plugins/overview/qml/main.qml M +24 -18 src/plugins/private/qml/WindowHeapDelegate.qml M +1 -0 src/plugins/windowview/qml/main.qml M +0 -2 src/plugins/windowview/windowvieweffect.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/commit/028dd552cfb9d826b40b9620d869c98d2aa3dca3