https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=475077

--- Comment #36 from Katharina Fey <koo...@spacekookie.de> ---
I think there's 2 things that irk me about this bug:

1. I was given NO FEEDBACK as to what might be happening when my workspace grid
didn't show up. I didn't know if it was intentional behaviour or a packaging
bug or something else. Having a little "yo btw" notice appear in the settings
window when you create a workspace grid would probably already reduce the
number of duplicate bug reports for this issue ;)

2. As far as I can tell (at least on my system) there's no "workspace overview"
(the <M-g> one) screen edge corner. Previously it was easy for me to move
windows across workspace grid with just my mouse, now that's not possible
anymore without also using my keyboard :(

As for a design suggestion, I posted this in 485481 because idk why I didn't
find this issue first:

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Tricky! The old behaviour showed the grid of workspaces, but it was always a
bit cramped, so I can understand wanting to change this.

An alternative would be to still show the current row and column (both!) at the
top and left side of the screen, with some "hinted" workspaces above/below and
left/right. This would allow dragging windows there to a) move the window and
b) (optionally?) switch to that workspace. At which point the hints would
change (to show some above/ to the left of the existing row/column). It means
you can drag windows down your current row or your current column, but you
can't drag them diagonally.

Probably needs a bunch of design work and tweaking to figure out how to make it
look good, but maybe this is an alternative to be able to support large
workspace grids like nobody currently does.

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