From 6cc19ee6f05102baef39b8a1bec73eff06699879 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 7aa976ef3..1cae5761d 100644
--- a/js/ui/workspacesView.js
+++ b/js/ui/workspacesView.js
@@ -638,10 +638,15 @@ 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();
     }