Minutes Monday Plasma hangout

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, March 03, 2014 15:20:03 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> Ivan Cukic:
> - Keyboard support for activity switcher.
> - Some fixes/improvements to kactivities/imports (did anyone notice we are
> in  master now  finally)
> 
> Questions:
>  - The time to merge the switcher into plasma is approaching. I'm thinking 
> about the best way to do it. I don't really like the idea that the activity 
> switcher should be in the same box as the applet browser. (especially since
> I'm planning some fancy things that would collide with the idea of being
> boxed.
> 
> I have even thought of making it a separate executable so that people can 
> switch activities even when plasma crashes, but that would take much more 
> memory than if it was inside plasma-shell. Some parts of it need to be
> always  running, to be able to react to meta+tab properly.

By "same box" you mean the same dialog, location, or size?

Separate process sounds like overkill to me, for the reasons you note (and 
mainly memory consumption).

> Offtopic: are we going to market the .0 release as something 'for the 
> adventurous' and 'not for professional work' or similar?

The plan is to have it stable and usable, good quality but possibly lacking 
features. So polishing is needed.

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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