EVERY update of kde brings new degradations in the user interface. :(

Just upgraded from 4.7 to 4.8.

In the 4.7 series, the alt+tab combination would bring up a list (in lines - one item per line) of windows, making it quite easy to see what is going on.

In kde 4.8, alt+tab brings up a horizontal row of icons so MASSIVE that only four of them fit on the page at once (running at 1280x1024 - not the largest resolution, but it should certainly be adequate). I have to keep pressing tab to cycle through the dozen or so windows, and I can't see them all at one time.

Why this horrible change, and is their any way to get the old behavior back?

System Settings -> Window Behaviour -> Task Switcher

lueck wrote:System Settings -> Window Behaviour -> Task Switcher

Thank you. That answered the second (and more important) part of my question, though the first part remains a mystery. :)

Answer to you first question:

It is your distribution, building kde from sources since 3.x I never noticed such a change in behaviour.