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color: rgb(107, 116, 140);"><p>So in essence you want to use the Desktop Grid effect as a virtual desktop pager, rather than a window picker. But why not just use the pager then?</p></div>
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<p>Indeed, I guess I use the Desktop Grid effect as a fullscreen pager. In my experience, the pager widget is too small to be efficient, selecting the right desktop with the mouse (or even worse with the touchpad) is time-consuming for me.</p>
<p>As a matter of fact, in my workflow, I navigate virtual desktops using the Meta+Left/Right keyboard shortcuts most of the times, but occasionally my hand will be on the mouse, in which case I have assigned the bottom right corner to trigger the Desktop Grid effect and then I just select a desktop. This way, it takes some very generic and easy-to-get mouse gestures to select a different desktop. In this workflow, the default behavior of activating the underlying window gets in the way for me, as I frequently have to pause and determine which window was last active so as not to disrupt it.</p>
<p>That being said, I can see how my perspective is different that the default intended functionality, which is why I maintained backwards compatible behavior in the patch, unless the user explicitly disables it.</p></div></div><br /><div><strong>REPOSITORY</strong><div><div>R108 KWin</div></div></div><br /><div><strong>REVISION DETAIL</strong><div><a href="https://phabricator.kde.org/D28781">https://phabricator.kde.org/D28781</a></div></div><br /><div><strong>To: </strong>ksmanis, KWin, VDG<br /><strong>Cc: </strong>ngraham, apol, kwin, Orage, cacarry, LeGast00n, The-Feren-OS-Dev, cblack, jraleigh, zachus, fbampaloukas, mkulinski, ragreen, jackyalcine, iodelay, crozbo, bwowk, ZrenBot, alexeymin, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, hardening, romangg, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, ahiemstra, mart<br /></div>