Desktop cube animation disappeared

Greetings!

I've been using Garuda Linux KDE Plasma on my Slimbook Pro2 since June, and enjoying the experience.
Since my last system update (with paru), the Desktop Cube Animation has disappeared from System Settings and I no longer can select it. :scream:
What is going on? Has it been permanently removed from Plasma? I hope not, because this is my favourite desktop animation to switch between desktops.
Congrats for the distribution and keep up the good worl! :muscle:

Here's the output of inxi -Faz:

System:
Kernel: 5.14.12-zen1-1-zen x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc
v: 11.1.0
parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/@/boot/vmlinuz-linux-zen
root=UUID=d5cf848f-e572-44fb-b6ea-20af2b408956 rw
rootflags=subvol=@ quiet splash rd.udev.log_priority=3
vt.global_cursor_default=0 systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=1
loglevel=3
Desktop: KDE Plasma 5.23.0 tk: Qt 5.15.2 info: latte-dock
wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM Distro: Garuda Linux
base: Arch Linux
Machine:
Type: Laptop System: SLIMBOOK product: PRO v: N/A
serial: <filter> Chassis: type: 10 serial: <filter>
Mobo: SLIMBOOK model: PRO serial: <filter>
UEFI: American Megatrends v: 1.05.08 date: 10/27/2017
Battery:
ID-1: BAT0 charge: 30.0 Wh (100.0%)
condition: 30.0/36.5 Wh (82.3%) volts: 12.9 min: 11.4
model: Notebook BAT type: Li-ion serial: <filter>
status: Full
CPU:
Info: Quad Core model: Intel Core i7-8550U bits: 64
type: MT MCP arch: Kaby Lake note: check family: 6
model-id: 8E (142) stepping: A (10) microcode: EA cache:
L2: 8 MiB
flags: avx avx2 lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 ssse3
vmx
bogomips: 31999
Speed: 3840 MHz min/max: 400/4000 MHz Core speeds (MHz):
1: 3840 2: 3477 3: 3575 4: 4001 5: 3945 6: 3589 7: 3891
8: 4001
Vulnerabilities: Type: itlb_multihit
status: KVM: VMX disabled
Type: l1tf mitigation: PTE Inversion; VMX: conditional cache
flushes, SMT vulnerable
Type: mds mitigation: Clear CPU buffers; SMT vulnerable
Type: meltdown mitigation: PTI
Type: spec_store_bypass mitigation: Speculative Store Bypass
disabled via prctl and seccomp
Type: spectre_v1 mitigation: usercopy/swapgs barriers and
__user pointer sanitization
Type: spectre_v2 mitigation: Full generic retpoline, IBPB:
conditional, IBRS_FW, STIBP: conditional, RSB filling
Type: srbds mitigation: Microcode
Type: tsx_async_abort status: Not affected
Graphics:
Device-1: Intel UHD Graphics 620 vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK
driver: i915 v: kernel bus-ID: 00:02.0 chip-ID: 8086:5917
class-ID: 0300
Device-2: Chicony Chicony USB2.0 Camera type: USB
driver: uvcvideo bus-ID: 1-4:2 chip-ID: 04f2:b59e
class-ID: 0e02 serial: <filter>
Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.13 compositor: kwin_x11
driver: loaded: intel unloaded: modesetting
alternate: fbdev,vesa display-ID: :0 screens: 1
Screen-1: 0 s-res: 1600x900 s-dpi: 96
s-size: 423x237mm (16.7x9.3") s-diag: 485mm (19.1")
Monitor-1: eDP1 res: 1600x900 hz: 60 dpi: 140
size: 290x170mm (11.4x6.7") diag: 336mm (13.2")
OpenGL: renderer: Mesa Intel UHD Graphics 620 (KBL GT2)
v: 4.6 Mesa 21.2.4 direct render: Yes
Audio:
Device-1: Intel Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel alternate: snd_soc_skl
bus-ID: 00:1f.3 chip-ID: 8086:9d71 class-ID: 0403
Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.14.12-zen1-1-zen running: yes
Sound Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.19 running: no
Sound Server-3: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes
Sound Server-4: PipeWire v: 0.3.38 running: yes
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit
Ethernet
vendor: CLEVO/KAPOK driver: r8169 v: kernel port: e000
bus-ID: 3a:00.1 chip-ID: 10ec:8168 class-ID: 0200
IF: enp58s0f1 state: down mac: <filter>
Device-2: Intel Wireless 8265 / 8275 driver: iwlwifi
v: kernel bus-ID: 3b:00.0 chip-ID: 8086:24fd class-ID: 0280
IF: wlp59s0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: anbox0 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Intel Bluetooth wireless interface type: USB
driver: btusb v: 0.8 bus-ID: 1-5:3 chip-ID: 8087:0a2b
class-ID: e001
Report: bt-adapter ID: hci0 rfk-id: 0 state: up
address: <filter>
Drives:
Local Storage: total: 1.02 TiB used: 54.59 GiB (5.2%)
SMART Message: Unable to run smartctl. Root privileges
required.
ID-1: /dev/sda maj-min: 8:0 vendor: Seagate
model: ST1000LM035-1RK172 size: 931.51 GiB block-size:
physical: 4096 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: HDD
rpm: 5400 serial: <filter> rev: SDM1 scheme: GPT
ID-2: /dev/sdb maj-min: 8:16 vendor: Western Digital
model: WDS120G1G0B-00RC30 size: 111.79 GiB block-size:
physical: 512 B logical: 512 B speed: 6.0 Gb/s type: SSD
serial: <filter> rev: 1000 scheme: GPT
Partition:
ID-1: / raw-size: 52.7 GiB size: 52.7 GiB (100.00%)
used: 44.88 GiB (85.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2
maj-min: 8:18
ID-2: /boot/efi raw-size: 512 MiB size: 511 MiB (99.80%)
used: 576 KiB (0.1%) fs: vfat dev: /dev/sdb1 maj-min: 8:17
ID-3: /home raw-size: 58.59 GiB size: 58.59 GiB (100.00%)
used: 9.71 GiB (16.6%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb3 maj-min: 8:19
ID-4: /var/log raw-size: 52.7 GiB size: 52.7 GiB (100.00%)
used: 44.88 GiB (85.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2
maj-min: 8:18
ID-5: /var/tmp raw-size: 52.7 GiB size: 52.7 GiB (100.00%)
used: 44.88 GiB (85.2%) fs: btrfs dev: /dev/sdb2
maj-min: 8:18
Swap:
Kernel: swappiness: 133 (default 60)
cache-pressure: 100 (default)
ID-1: swap-1 type: zram size: 31.23 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
priority: 100 dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 55.0 C mobo: N/A
Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A
Info:
Processes: 291 Uptime: 1h 42m wakeups: 2 Memory: 31.23 GiB
used: 3.73 GiB (11.9%) Init: systemd v: 249 tool: systemctl
Compilers: gcc: 11.1.0 clang: 12.0.1 Packages: pacman: 2044
lib: 565 Shell: fish v: 3.3.1 default: Bash v: 5.1.8
running-in: konsole inxi: 3.3.07
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Yes, sadly it has been removed.

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Why's that?! I suppose there must be a strong reason...
I mean, I cannot find any post saying it was removed from other distributions. Is it specific to Garuda?

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The linked GitLab issue contains all information about it: its an upstream decision, not ours.

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Sorry, I have missed the link. Thanks for the clarification.

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Seems like plasma update changed stuff unnecessarily. Alt-tab used to be a cool animation of each screen, now it's just a sidebar. I need to dig through settings and find that and revert it.

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With the ongoing scene redesign, these effect need to be rewritten. However, given that they are not used widely based on support information from various bug reports, their huge code size and our available man power being sparse, the most reasonable thing is to drop them (for now), unfortunately.

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I weep for the loss of cool animations.

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Cant we atleast fork that animation and maintain as our own? When i found out the animations missing i thought i messed up as my OS was acting up so i reloaded an snapshot, since the latest update i had been stressed on the animation change, it was really really cool

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I'd second that. Having used the new alt-tab all day it's ugly, it's worse than Windows alt-tab. Turn your compositor off and use it, it's not pretty. Whoever thought gigantic icons that take up 90% of the slot and leave too little room for enough text to see what that browser is shouldn't be designing UIs :rage:

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I am not sure if we can do that without breaking Plasma.

But we can do one thing, creating issues. Just go to

And create issues. More the issues, more the probability that KDE guys will restore it. And maybe you should also try to find more people like you on reddit r/kde

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I guess, creating issues will not help.
Helping to rewrite those effects would help.

They dropped it, because they don't have enough people to rewrite it.

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Hi there, welcome to the community.

Absolutely yes, if someone can maintain those effects, certainly they should do this.

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OMG, is the KDE dev team becoming like Apple.

Apple: the users seem to like this feature, lets remove it.
everyone else: whaaaat!?!??

I miss the cube, I miss my 3D task switcher. :frowning:

edit: I read the article .... they're removing it for the time-being to re-write the code at some point :+1:

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https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=438883#c12

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Sometimes They (will...) Come Back :slight_smile:

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