https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=396495
Bug ID: 396495
Summary: Enhance pager options and visibility
Product: plasmashell
Version: master
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Pager
Assignee: h...@kde.org
Reporter: erwhite99-...@yahoo.com
CC: plasma-b...@kde.org
Target Milestone: 1.0
Created attachment 113926
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KDE panel comparison 3.5 to 4
The plasma pager is lacking a few options to make managing desktops easier. In
a previous version of KDE the original pager allowed you to name the desktops
and the text was very clearly readable in the pager window and I seem to
remeber you could right click on the pager and directly change the name of the
desktop. As of KDE 4 a few things changed to make that made reading the
workspace names very difficult.
https://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Pager
The first issues is that there is no option to hide window outlines. At least
for me I find window outline information pretty much useless information and it
would be very helpful to add an option to hide the window outlines
The second issue is that while you can "Show desktop names" the text is all but
unreadable as it's obscured by the window outlines and uses a fixed font, no
matter the size of the window.
A primary management tool I use to keep track of what I'm doing is based on
these desktop names. I have 15 desktops with various things going on and have
some short text related to whata is going on. I have to squint to see the
names.
Here are some threads with others voicing some frustration over these pager
issues and attempting to find workarounds. I haven't found anything that
worked.
https://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=67&t=140136
Here someone even attempted to modify the sourcecode of the KDE4 pager to make
it readable:
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/alt.os.linux.suse/ag_uJE29tiM
I'm stuck at work with RHEL6 and KDE4 so I don't really have the time to play
with the source code or try to find some way around this but I'm hoping for the
future someone can consider making these enhancements.
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