https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450674
--- Comment #11 from Brian <aeon.descrip...@gmail.com> --- What about a gear icon that takes you to the settings to add/delete virtual desktops? Deleting the label is pretty unintuitive. In any case, still strongly agree that the trash icon is rough. On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 8:49 PM Denilson F. de Sá <bugzilla_nore...@kde.org> wrote: > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450674 > > Denilson F. de Sá <denilso...@gmail.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |denilso...@gmail.com > > --- Comment #10 from Denilson F. de Sá <denilso...@gmail.com> --- > Created attachment 164460 > --> https://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=164460&action=edit > Screenshot of the "Trash" button when the user has vertical screens > > The "trash" button is surprising. The UI shows "look at this rectangle, > you can > click on me!". Then when the user clicks on it, "Surprise! There was an > invisible button that showed up as you moved the mouse cursor, and now your > virtual desktop is gone!". Hidden buttons are just bad UX. > > This effect is even worse if the user has a 16:9 vertical screen. (i.e. If > the > monitor is rotated 90°.) Take a look at the attached screenshot, the > invisible > button takes up about 40% of the area. That's a very large danger zone. So > large that I'm always scared to click on it. > > It is so annoying that this person came up with his own "solution" (that > gets > overwritten on each update): > https://romangeber.com/blog/tech/kde-plasma-desktop-delete-button-fix > > ——— > > As alternatives, I would suggest having a drag-and-drop feature, so that > we can > easily reorder the virtual desktops, and so that dragging to a trash area > would > delete the virtual desktop. (And dragging from the "plus" area would > create a > new virtual desktop.) > > I can understand implementing drag-and-drop can be complicated, so I'm > proposing an alternative behavior that is easier to implement: If the user > deletes the label (i.e. clicks on the label and deletes the text), then the > virtual desktop is deleted. In other words, an empty label would trigger a > deletion. This sounds intuitive-ish, as the user is already deleting > something; > while also being very hard to trigger by accident. > > Whatever the solution, please get rid of that trash button. > > -- > You are receiving this mail because: > You are on the CC list for the bug. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
