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I have been made aware of the fact that Kubuntu shipps default settings for KWin which introduce issues. I had a look at the kwinrc in bazaar [1] as of revision 505 and I can confirm the issue. In the Plugin section both BoxSwitch and CoverSwitch are enabled. The BoxSwitch effect has already been replaced in 4.8 by a QML TabBox, but is still shipped as part of it is optionally used by CoverSwitch. The fact that Kubuntu enables the effect in kwinrc breaks the kwin config migration script. Basically the behavior is undefined. I have no idea what the users get when the script is executed but it is not what they should get. I would suggest to remove the line: kwin4_effect_boxswitchEnabled=true Furthermore there are multiple settings which are identical to KWin's default. I would suggest to remove those as that can cause issues in the future. The following config values match KWin's default: * Style -> PluginLib * Windows -> TitlebarDoubleClickCommand * Effect-CoverSwitch -> TabBoxAlternative Furthermore the following combination of default settings does not make any sense: enabling the cube effect and only 2 desktops. I also want to point out that upstreams default is since 4.7 to have only one desktop. KDE used to have a default of four desktops and Kubuntu decided that four are too many and changed to two. With the changed value in KDE this should be re-evaluated. Either Kubuntu wants to follow upstream (this is what I would suggest) or goes really with virtual desktops and in that case it should be changed to 4. Then also the cube effect makes sense. Please note that removing the virtual desktops by default unclutters the default setup as the pager is removed. Best Regards Martin Gräßlin KWin maintainer [1] http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~kubuntu-packagers/kubuntu-default- settings/kubuntu-default-settings/view/head:/share/config/kwinrc
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