External monitors as "desktops"

[Smit Patil]

If someone submits MR and it breaks the spec will it be merged ?

On Sat, Feb 26, 2022 at 4:25 AM Joshua J. Kugler <joshua at joshuakugler.com>
wrote:

> On Monday, February 21, 2022 2:31:43 AM AKST Thomas Lübking wrote:
> > Am Mon, Feb 21, 2022 at 10:28:42AM +0200 schrieb Vlad Zahorodnii:
> > >On 2/18/22 22:28, Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> > >>Is there a way in kwin/plasma to make an external monitor its own
> > >>"desktop?" That is, when you hit "ctrl-tab" to change desktops, that
> > >>monitor does not change its display?  Similar to the way Mac (can)
> > >>handles external displays.>
> > >At the moment, kwin does not support per monitor virtual desktops, but
> > >there was an attempt to fix that.
> >
> > I major obstacle will be that this isn't covered by the NETWM spec and
> > you'll have issues reporting the current virtual desktop or treating
> > requests to move or move windows there.
> > So the implementation would probably have to exist aside that concept
> > and then is just some way to manage the mapping state of windows on the
> > current (in doubt only) virtual desktop.
>
> As much as I would like to see KDE implement this, I'd much rather the
> spec
> amended  than KDE break the spec and break interoperability with other
> apps
> and desktops.
>
> Is there a ticket/proposal in front of the the Freedesktop group to add
> something like this? If not, how would one go about requesting?
>
> j
>
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