On Sunday 18 October 2009, Chani wrote: > > you know what would be cool as a "next step" after this? to have "remove > > this virtual desktop" when right clicking on a desktop in the pager ... > > add, remove, easy peasy? :) > > I know, I was thinking about it last night... > the problem is the "this" part. > first of all contextualActions() doesn't know which desktop the click was > on. I could override the contextmenuevent, perhaps...
gah, true. > but then we run into the second problem: virtual desktops are kinda dumb. I > don't see any way of removing an arbitrary virtual desktop; I only see API > for changing the number of desktops and setting the name of each desktop. > > in order to emulate it, you have to move windows from desktop n to desktop > n-1 for all n > the one to delete, rename each of those desktops too, and > then decrement the number of desktops. eeeeew. yeah, don't see other ways, i wodner if gnome shell does this or they use something not in netwm to do that > on the other hand, it'd be easy to add a "remove last desktop" action. > > while we're on the subject, another frustration of adding virtual desktops > is that every addition changes the spatial layout. I've got desktop 6 > underneath desktop 3 right now, but if I add another desktop then 6 will > be under 2 and I'll have to go reorganize half my desktops to match the > new layout. I wonder if I can have a set number of *columns* instead of > rows, if I put a pager on a virtual panel... that'd work around that > annoyance... oh, but the add-widgets bar doesn't work on vertical panels. > :( and trying to drag a pager from the addwidgets bar of my horizontal > panel to my vertical panel just crashes plasma. *sigh* > > won't it be nice when we can just drag windows to named activities instead? > :) > -- Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
