Plasma 6 autohide slow: [Feature not a bug]

jesnow · l33t Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 877

You may have noticed that since switching to Plasma 6, auto-unhiding the panel has become painfully slow. This is a fact. The panel takes up to an entire second to show itself. This makes your lightning desktop system feel like a pentium 1. Bravo KDE, you really know how to make your users feel good about upgrading.

But it turns out this is a *feature* not a bug, but the solution is not obvious. There is nothing to see in "Configure Icons-Only Task manager".

The reason is that people have been asking for over a decade to be able to deliberately set the auto-unhide delay time, and the feature request bug was fixed in plasma 6. But it pertains not to the task manager, but to screen edges.

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=267277

So go to System Settings -> mouse and touchpad -> screen edges

Turn down the "Activation delay" and you're back to normal.

Cheers,
Jon.

Goverp · Advocate Joined: 07 Mar 2007 Posts: 2175

Interesting: my system has activation delay of 150 ms, and seems fine. I never set it, so I suppose it's some default either new in Plasma:6 or inherited from somewhere in Plasma:5.
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dmpogo · Advocate Joined: 02 Sep 2004 Posts: 3416 Location: Canada

jesnow · l33t Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 877

I think if you like window animations (ie not me) then having the auto unhide be instantaneous might be jarring. I bet that's why they set the default at 150ms. DE developers like to turn on all their features by default so you can revel in their beauty. At least in most linux DE's turning "everything off" is pretty easy. Not so on other OS's.

Cheers,
Jon.