QML Placces design discussion

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 13:11:13 +0100, Mark wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Aurélien Gâteau <agateau at kde.org> 
> wrote:
>> On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:40:15 +0100, Marco Martin wrote:
>>>
>>> On Wednesday 13 February 2013, Mark wrote:
>>>
>>>> That would probably be the best way i guess.
>>>> But then we still have an empty taskbar area occupied by the pager
>>>> during the 4.10 cycle. I can hardly imagine that to be the 
>>>> intention?
>>>>
>>>> It's just a simple QML one liner.. If you want i can commit the 
>>>> change
>>>> (as posted a few posts back) to 4.10..
>>>>
>>>> When i brought this issue up in RB and moved it to this list i was
>>>> actually expecting a reply like: "Ohh, we introduced a new pager 
>>>> in
>>>> 4.10 that occupies space without putting anything in it by 
>>>> default.
>>>> Lets fix that asap." But there is nothing like that. Like you guys
>>>> just don't see it as an issue.. Why is that?
>>>
>>>
>>> i wouldn't be against not shipping the pager by default.
>>> there is just one thing that doesn't sound about right.
>>> should also be easy to go back to multiple desktop, and if the 
>>> pager is
>>> not
>>> there, then the user can easiuly increase the number of desktops in
>>> systemsettings, but then doesn't get any pager and looks like 
>>> setting that
>>> option didn't have any effects (i can already sense bug reports for 
>>> that
>>> :p)
>>
>>
>> Since the virtual desktop kcm is already shown from within the pager 
>> applet
>> configuration dialog, maybe it can simply be removed from 
>> systemsettings?
>> This
>> way the only way to configure virtual desktops is through the pager 
>> applet,
>> which means it has to be present.
>
> I'm just going to assume you're making a joke here.
>
> In case you're not: bad idea!
Do you have arguments to back this bold claim?

Aurélien