In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/25/a-slight-ux-change-in-plasma-6-4-1/comment-page-1/#comment-40390">yin</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>The problem specifically is that the animation is cancelled when it goes from fading away (no windows being highlighted) to fading back in (windows being highlighted). This results in a jump rather than a smooth transition, which is the problem here.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>This isn't triggered by alt+tab because there's no way to rapidly highlight nothing and then something again but because of the empty space between the thumbnails in the Task Switcher tooltip, it's surprisingly easy to rapidly trigger just by moving your mouse across them at a reasonable speed.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I think the fix will be a combination of making the animation slower (150ms -> 250ms, too much and it no longer feels responsive) and of course fixing the issue which causes the animation to cancel.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I'd like to think that the doom-and-gloom vibe about accessibility is actually a good thing because it shows that our community is starting to care a lot more about accessibility, and as a result is starting to uncover all the issues with it which were previously ignored. Now that it's getting more attention, there's a bigger chance that we can improve it.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/05/27/steamos-destroys-windows/comment-page-1/#comment-40386">SatoMew</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>ArsTechnica concurs with the premise of the post, FWIW: <a href="https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds" rel="nofollow ugc">https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/06/games-run-faster-on-steamos-than-windows-11-ars-testing-finds</a></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>Any chance that the telemetry could be released monthly to the public? Similar to something like the Steam Hardware Survey. It would be really nice to see those stats and data every month.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
<!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>With thee default settings, there is no 'flicker' to be pedantic. It changes the screen at the same speed of pointer movement from one thumbnail to another. This can be fast enough to cause issue. The animation curve can be twicked, or a delay can be added if the effect is triggered once (first highlight). I'm not familiar with this effect impl though so likely I'm writing nonsense lol.</p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...
In reply to <a href="https://pointieststick.com/2025/06/21/about-plasmas-x11-session/comment-page-1/#comment-40374">Jaime Antonio González</a>. <!-- wp:paragraph --> <p>I installed Heaptrack to try to figure out what's happening. I get lots of "unresolved functions" doing a lot of allocations and adding up over time.<br><br>Bug filed: <a href="https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506197" rel="nofollow ugc">https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=506197</a><br><br></p> <!-- /wp:paragraph -->...