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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [plasmashell] [Bug 346837] Show desktop function is damaged
From:       Simon <simon.vizzini83 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2015-05-04 17:44:19
Message-ID: bug-346837-17878-gI0LNDwuCM () http ! bugs ! kde ! org/
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--- Comment #28 from Simon <simon.vizzini83@gmail.com> ---
I've just updated to 5.3 (on Arch Linux) and I was quite "shocked" by the new
"Show Desktop" behavior. I have the "Show desktop" plasmoid on my main panel,
with no keyboard shortcut attached to it (or at least I don't know the default
shortcut for this, I have yet to memorize the millions of shortcuts available
:-)). I was really surprised that my panel got hidden, only displaying this
"weird" artifact in the top left corner. So how would one get his desktop back,
without knowing the shortcut for "Show desktop"? I was clicking like mad on
everything, hoping to somehow get my desktop back. In the end I seriously had
to reboot my computer to get back to my desktop. After reboot the first thing I
did was to define a shortcut for "Show desktop", so I don't get trapped again
like this.

Personally I totally agree with all the previous comments. This new behavior is
totally counter intuitive, and I also can't come up with a reasonable use-case
to hide the panel. I'm also all open to new features and everything, but
changing something like this in such a radical way seems unreasonable to me,
especially for noobs like me who don't know really much about KDE and all the
shortcuts and customizations available (Plasma 5 is the first KDE Desktop I've
ever used).

Also, not only switching activities is troublesome while "showing desktop":
I've now been trying to figure out how this new "show desktop" is supposed to
be useful, and during my fiddling I hit another trap: I accidentally hit my
scroll wheel. By default the scroll wheel seems to switch to another virtual
desktops, but doing so while "showing desktop" will it make impossible to bring
back any windows. The result is the same as described by bazonbloch. Other than
that, I wasn't able to figure out the usefulness of this new feature... it
seems like a really weird decision to me (but I have yet to read the discussion
on the review board of this feature).

For now I'll definitively look into the KWin script mentioned and use that
instead.

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