Minutes Monday Plasma hangout

[Marco Martin]

On Monday 03 March 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.

I really don't like the idea of the separate process, really overkill.
as to "where it is", right now it was managed by the desktop view qml to be 
able to work well with the active shell as well, where the switcher is very 
minimal, and always on the same window.
So it needs to be completely replaceable in another shell and needs to be 
possible to stay in the same window of the main containment.

it's also derived from how much I'm wary of adding much complexity in the 
switcher, since if we want people to start to use it we actually have to make 
it much simpler than is now, rather than more complicated


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Marco Martin