multiple desktops and background painting

Chani chanika at gmail.com
Thu Feb 21 15:55:03 CET 2008


On February 21, 2008 21:45:20 Matěj Koubík wrote:
> 2008/2/7, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org>:
> > On Wednesday 06 February 2008, Chani wrote:
> >  > I'd just like to make it clear that I think it would be kinda silly to
> >  > offer wallpaper-per-virtual-desktop instead of
> >  > containment-per-virtual-desktop; if people have one desktop
> >  > containment for each virtual desktop, they can set each to its own
> >  > wallpaper.
> >
> > these are two different use cases. remember that a Containment has two
> > primary purposes:
> >
> >  a) to contain a collection of plasmoids
> >  b) to paint a background behind them
> >
> >  it is fully valid to want the same plasmoids on all your virtual
> > desktops (using virtual desktops to organize your windows only) but
> > different backgrounds. (b')
> >
> >  it's also valid to want the same background but different sets of
> > widgets per desktop. (a')
> >
> >  it's also valid to want different backgrounds and different sets of
> > widgets per desktop. (a'b')
> >
> >  i'm trying to find a way to offer b' right now in a way that works for
> >  composition managers (no other desktop wallpaper system do this properly
> >  right now, btw).
> >
> >  the neat thing is that the proposed solution also allows for a' and a'b'
> > with a very small bit more work.
>
> If there is a containment-per-desktop, you can have different
> background on each desktop, but plasmoids and icons can be added to
> all desktops by default. And there is also place for some "cool
> features" like an "only-on-this-desktop" option when adding a
> plasmoid.

no, it doesn't quite work like that. an applet is only in one containment at a 
time. what we *can* do is have two virtual-desktops both show the same 
containment.

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