https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475077
--- Comment #25 from Prajna Sariputra <putr...@gmail.com> --- > what if, when you start dragging a window, the effect automatically switches > to the desktop grid so that it's easier to drop in to another desktop? (and, > why would you be drag-and-dropping a window on the Overview anyway, without > the desktop bar?) While that would improve the usefulness of the overview with a grid of desktops, it would still be missing the ability of switching virtual desktops with just the mouse, especially since for hot corners and edges triggering the effect twice to get to the grid doesn't work, and assigning the hot corner to the grid rather than the overview (only possible in 6.1) means that the KRunner powered search isn't accessible. While there are of course other ways of using just the mouse to switch desktops (pager widget, scrolling on the desktop background if that's enabled, assigning the grid to a different corner/edge), what I loved about the Plasma 5 overview is that it was a one stop shop for everything: app launching, app switching, desktop switching, moving apps between desktops, and everything else KRunner can do, instead of having to go to the other separate places to do these things (Kickoff, Alt+Tab app switcher, task manager widget, pager widget, grid effect). Also, the reason I'm using a grid of desktops (2 rows, 3 columns in my case) instead of having them all in one row/column is that with wraparound enabled it only takes me 2 touchpad gestures (or switch to left/right/up/down desktop shortcut) at most to get from one desktop to any other one of the 6, and 3 of the desktops are always accessible with just one gesture/shortcut. If the 2D gestures support comes in then that would make all the desktops accessible with just one gesture with my grid setup. > and what is supposed to happen, after dropping it? Will the grid remain open? > will the overview be shown again? with the same VD focused or the one where > the window was dropped? Currently if the desktop bar is visible dragging and dropping a window into another virtual desktop will not change the current VD (say if you're in VD1 and you drop a window to VD3 then the overview would stay at VD1), so to maintain that sort of behavior after dropping a window the overview should be shown again at the same VD the user started at. That would have a disadvantage of a lot of stuff moving around on screen all the time if someone has say 4 windows in one VD and wants to move all of them into other VDs though. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
