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kubuntu-default-settings package

Cover- and Boxswitch effect enabled by default

Bug #291532 reported by Martin Gräßlin
4
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
kubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Low
Harald Sitter
Intrepid
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: kde-window-manager

I installed Kubuntu 8.10 on a new system yesterday and noticed that cover- and boxswitch are enabled by default and it looks a little bit weird. It adds transparency to all windows except the front window and that does not look nice as well as boxswitch is painted on top of the front window.

As KDE default is boxswitch I guess that you want to have coverswitch as the default window switcher. In that case you have to set in kwin/effects/boxswitch.desktop
X-KDE-PluginInfo-EnabledByDefault=false

And you should remove in kwin/kcmkwin/compositing/main.cpp in method KWinCompositingConfig::loadGeneralTab() and KWinCompositingConfig::saveGeneralTab() the default loading of boxswitch for "Improved window management" or replace it by coverswitch.

Jonathan Thomas (echidnaman)
Changed in kdebase-workspace:
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Harald Sitter (apachelogger) wrote :

We usually don't patch stuff directly, to preserve a pretty vanialla KDE. Not unless necessary anyway ;-)

Changed in kdebase-workspace:
assignee: nobody → apachelogger
importance: Undecided → Low
status: Triaged → In Progress
Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
Changed in kdebase-workspace:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package kubuntu-default-settings - 1:9.04.1

---------------
kubuntu-default-settings (1:9.04.1) jaunty; urgency=low

  [ Guillaume Martres ]
  * Added back kuriikwsfilterrc, changed the default search engine from strigi
    to google_lucky, same change for the kuriikwsfilterrc of kde3/
  * Reenabled installation of the contrastlarge cursor theme, ported
    the accessibility config files to KDE4 but don't install them

  [ Harald Sitter ]
  * Use xdg-open as command for web browsers (LP: #271598)
  * Add kde-rc-files/katemoderc to get syntax highlighting for pbuilderrc,
    also set 'changelog' as pattern for Debian Changelog (the generic changelog
    item uses ChangeLog as pattern anyway)
  * Deactivate Boxswitch effect in favor of Coverswitch (LP: #291532)
  * Don't update the x-cursor-theme alternative, there is no X cursor theme.
  * Change version scheme to native package
  * Remove ksvgplugin.rc - KSVG is no more
  * Consistent spelling colour-schemes => color-schemes
  * Farewell dirfilterplugin.rc! Directory filtering isn't a plugin anymore, but
    directly implemented into the dolphinpart. It is, however, not as space
    saving as the plugin for Konqueror, so activating it by default would be
    rather annoying. It is very likely that upstream will turn it on by
    default once Nepomuk is fully integrated though.
  * Remove gwenviewui.rc, it breaks the menu and rather uggly cripples
    Gwenview, which is especially awkward since in Gwenview 2.2 one doesn't
    need the menu at all (except for advanced use cases).
    + gvimagepart.rc
  * Remove lipstikstylerc and polyesterstylerc (neither available for KDE 4)
  * Add ${misc:Depends} to make lintian happy
  * Fix changelog formatting to make lintian a bit happier
  * Install gtk-qt-engine.rc.sh executable to make lintian completely happier
  * Remove debian/dirs to make lintian the happiest ;-)

 -- Harald Sitter <email address hidden> Fri, 02 Jan 2009 08:50:20 +0100

Changed in kubuntu-default-settings:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Alex Valavanis (valavanisalex) wrote :

Intrepid Ibex reached end-of-life on 30 April 2010 so I am closing the
report. The bug has been fixed in newer releases of Ubuntu.

Changed in kubuntu-default-settings (Ubuntu Intrepid):
status: New → Invalid
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