On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 10:38 AM, Aurélien Gâteau <agat...@kde.org> wrote: > Le Tuesday 12 February 2013 23:55:39 Mark a écrit : >> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Shaun Reich <sre...@kde.org> wrote: >> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraess...@kde.org> > wrote: >> >> Technical implementation aside: I think that makes absolute sense: >> >> * one vd by default >> >> * do not show pager for one vd >> >> * show pager if user uses more vds >> > >> > i agree that showing the pager only for on vd is a bit weird. but the >> > issue >> > i'd like to address is that if you make the pager invisible and not taking >> > up space, then when the user is browsing the widget explorer seeing what >> > he >> > can add to the panel, he tries to add the pager widget, wondering what >> > that >> > does. but no feedback is given for adding it, and so they add it 10 more >> > times. >> > >> > as mentioned in the rb, i've personally witnessed this happen, and this >> > seems to confuse people, because they have no idea they need to go into >> > system settings and set the virtual desktop to > 1. if it said so/told >> > them, i imagine that would be fine as well. >> > >> >> Focus on technical implementation: I don't care much and cannot judge it, >> >> but >> >> my personal vote would be to just drop the pager from the default setup. >> > >> > I agree on this, since I don't see virtual desktops being used by people >> > other than power users. After all, we've got activities and we should be >> > focusing/refining on that for the majority of our users. >> > >> > i think that if we remove it from the default setup, we don't have to >> > worry >> > about hiding the pager contents in the 1 vd scenario at all. >> >> Why are you folks discarding my usecase completely? Not even one >> comment on it. My usecase is very valid, i'm having it right now as i >> type this mail. > > What Shaun and Martin suggest would actually fix your problem. If the pager is > not in the default setup, then there is no need to hide it when only one vd is > there, so you would be able to add the widget to your panel and see your > windows.
That would not fix it at all. It would still show up empty with just one VD if i choose to add it. Note: big +1 for removing it from the default setup, but if it's there it should show "something". _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel