Most of the task switcher animations do not work

Hi guys, there's one thing I could not solve in this months with Garuda and it's just bothering me. A couple of weeks ago, I tried to change the task switching animation since the one I was getting was extremely simple, so I went to check the available animations and i saw that half of the animations in the list were all the same "default" simple look. Sweetified Plasma and the 3 Brezza do not work (they all look the same just like "Informative").
Everything is up to date, I searched on google but nothing solved the issue; most of what I read was about "compositors" so I tried to change rendering engine to OpenGL 3.1 but did not work. Here on the forum I found someone that said that some of the animations where removed but on the official KDE web page says that at least Brezza should work; I don't even have FlipSwitch or CoverSwitch in the list but oh well.
I was thinking about changing compositor (kwin) but after some reading I now think it's kind of a bad idea.
So, I can easly stay with a simple switching animation but if I could solve this issue I would feel better :smiley:

Thanks in advance to anyone wanting to help!

╰─λ inxi -Faz
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My bad! Is it good now?

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For some reason global themes seem to be listed there, Sweetified Plasma definitely does not provide a switcher animation. Also, KDE recently removed the cover effect and another one to rewrite them in QML I think - these will return in the next release though (already present in KDE-git)

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Ah! Now, that makes sense :neutral_face:
I guess I’ll wait for the next release then.
Thank you so much for the help!

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