A patch-set that removes more code than it adds is always much appreciated. Code that doesn’t exist cannot have bugs after all! KWin, our fantastic Wayland compositor and window manager, like many others, has an Alt+Tab switcher (“tabbox”) for quickly cycling between windows. Of course having been created by KDE…
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You click a link in your chat app, your browser with a hundred tabs comes to the front and opens that page. How hard can it be? Well, you probably know by now that Wayland, unlike X, doesn’t let one application force its idiot wishes on everyone else. In order for an application to bring its window to the front, it…
There is something very exciting I have to show to you today: a completely rewritten notification system for Plasma that will be part of our next feature update 5.16 to be released in June.