I believe in Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora one can choose the simple task switchers that used to be common in KDE 4 (one is named "compact", the other "large icons" and "text information" or something like that).

But in Debian all that is allowed is "cover switch", "flip switch" and "breeze", all of which I find to be rather laggy and inelegant. Is there any way to manually install the legacy task switchers. I particularly enjoyed using the compact switcher and the text information switcher (which would display a list of window titles).

Not only that, but when I click on the button to download new switchers, nothing new appears and everything is broken. Is this normal? Is there an intention to eventually allow KDE 5 users to download new switchers?

Thanks in advance.

Edit: There is already a thread at the Debian User Forums (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=127426&p=609885) regarding this issue but it has received no replies so I thought it might be useful to ask here.

you might be missing a pkg, might be plasma5-addons or its a distro thing

new switchers can be gotton by clicking the * but they do not include what you are specifically looking for

On deb testing I recently got the added features as detailed in google's screenshot.

tobym wrote:I believe in Ubuntu, Arch, and Fedora one can choose the simple task switchers that used to be common in KDE 4 (one is named "compact", the other "large icons" and "text information" or something like that).

But in Debian all that is allowed is "cover switch", "flip switch" and "breeze"...

Arch Linux is using single package - kwin: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/x86_64/kwin/

The Debian is splitting packages to several pieces: https://packages.debian.org/search?keyw ... ection=all

With the Debian Sid the package kwin-addons will add more 'window swichers': https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/k ... s/filelist

/usr/share/kservices5/kwin/kwin4_window_switcher_big_icons.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/kwin/kwin4_window_switcher_compact.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/kwin/kwin4_window_switcher_informative.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/kwin/kwin4_window_switcher_present_windows.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/kwin/kwin4_window_switcher_small_icons.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/kwin/kwin4_window_switcher_text.desktop
/usr/share/kservices5/kwin/kwin4_window_switcher_thumbnails.desktop

Sid:

Code: Select all

$ kcmshell5 --list| grep tab
kwintabbox                 - Navigation Through Windows
$ kcmshell5 kwintabbox


Full image: http://i.imgur.com/Q15Iw3A.png

Thanks everyone. The missing package on Debian was kwin-addons, and now everything works well!