Behaviour of "Show Desktop"

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 08 May 2015 04:07:10 Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> Evidently, we have introduced new behaviour that is supposed to contain less
> bugs, but it results in a much more limited functionality in a feature
> which has been there forever. The new mode does away with some interaction
> problems but it does so simply by reducing showing desktop mode to a small
> subset of its previous features. It's evident that the increased modality
> introduces more problems currently than it solves. Also, we didn't want to
> break muscle memory, expected and trained behaviour with Plasma 5, but this
> is exactly what we've done by introducing this new feature.

what i fear is that is simply a very complex problem, that every possible 
solution has advantages and disadvantages, that will make happy or angry 
different set of people, so is possible that any way, it will have a visible 
behavior change, so will have a pain period anyways.

the ideal would be then being able to just open new windows when the effect is 
on, the two possibilities here are
a) reset the effect
b) leave al lthe rest hidden, but show the newly opened windows

with a) the problem is that is a surprising behavior for many, as br tell.
with b) then is very hard to even understand in what "state" we are anymore, 
and what would happen when the effect is disabled?

> * Put back the pre-5.3.0 behaviour as default,
> * Re-think the overall interaction of the show desktop feature and the
> dashboard, especially in terms of modality and common workflow patterns
> * Reintroduce the new behaviour as option and polish its corner cases

so do i revert to the old dashboard implementation? (it's a lot of code that 
got killed and would need to be reintroduce, urgh :)


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Marco Martin