This week we have seen many bugfixes for the next 4.9 release and more are in the pipeline. Overall nothing special happened, the distribution I wrote about last week fixed the downstream issue so we are no longer flooded by duplicate crash reports. Since the 4.9.0 release 39 bugs have been created against KWin and we already fixed ten of those. Most of the other bugs are of course duplicates and other incorrect states.
Next to bug fixing also some new features entered master aka 4.10. A patch to use mouse wheel in Cover and Flip Switch effect which had been blocked for some time by the feature freeze got merged and for the users of multi-screens we have a new nice feature: the window decoration context menu (alternative shortcut Alt+F3) gained a “Move To Screen” sub menu. When I worked on that code fragment I realized it needed to be refactored – that will most likely end up in the next report.
Summary
Crash Fixes
- 304620: KWin crashes when alt-tabbing after plasma crash
This change will be available in version 4.9.1
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Bug Fixes
- 304791: Aurorae ignores ‘Window title’ font setting
This change will be available in version 4.9.1
Git Commit - 304822: TitleHeight should never be smaller than ButtonHeight
This change will be available in version 4.9.1
Git Commit - 304404: Track mouse effect does not explicitly set the opacity
This change will be available in version 4.9.1
Git Commit - 304847: Big Icons TabBox does not elide caption
This change will be available in version 4.9.1
Git Commit - 305338: Effect Information not included in Support Information
This change will be available in version 4.9.1
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New Features
- 269207: Add screen management actions to window context menus
This change will be available in version 4.10
Git Commit - 244439: JJ: Need Mouse navigation in flip switch mode
This change will be available in version 4.10
Git Commit
Hi, I want to ask for some attention on the zoom effect, I use it all the time(because of my eyes) and it seems it gets slower(scrolling,hovering) every release,most of this performance issues are reported already.
Keep up the great work
I’m sorry, but please do not post bug reports in the comment section of my blog. That’s the best way to ensure that I’ll forget about it. I just checked the bugtracker and cannot find any performance related bug report about zoom effec.
changed capabilities?
set the scale method to smooth or crisp (NOT accurate) and (esp. for older and or integrated graphics chips) disable “OpenGL 2 shaders”
forum.kde.org is –> that way.
As always thanks Martin for your hard work, it is really paying off ,kwin is really fast!