From b69b404118852f7955f60d1814f5e19ad61ce449 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: =?UTF-8?q?Florian=20M=C3=BCllner?= <fmuellner@gnome.org>

Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2019 03:26:51 +0000

Subject: [PATCH] workspacesView: Work around spurious allocation changes

For some reason, people are still seeing those after commit d5ebd8c8.

While this is something we really should figure out, we can work around

the issue by keeping the view actors hidden until the update is complete.

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-shell/issues/1065

---

 js/ui/workspacesView.js | 5 +++++

 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/js/ui/workspacesView.js b/js/ui/workspacesView.js

index 069937d5a..e302296a6 100644

--- a/js/ui/workspacesView.js

+++ b/js/ui/workspacesView.js

@@ -666,10 +666,15 @@ var WorkspacesDisplay = class {

                                                this._scrollValueChanged.bind(this));

             }

+            // HACK: Avoid spurious allocation changes while updating views

+            view.actor.hide();

+

             this._workspacesViews.push(view);

             Main.layoutManager.overviewGroup.add_actor(view.actor);

         }

+        this._workspacesViews.forEach(v => v.actor.show());

+

         this._updateWorkspacesFullGeometry();

         this._updateWorkspacesActualGeometry();

     }

-- 

2.21.0