[Bug 163256] New: pager: new behaviour is nice but hardly usable (text description only on hover)

[Rafał Miłecki]

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           Summary: pager: new behaviour is nice but hardly usable (text
                    description only on hover)
           Product: plasma
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Compiled Sources
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: panel-devel kde org
        ReportedBy: zajec5 gmail com


Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

This "feature" was introduced in:
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=806773
http://websvn.kde.org/?view=rev&revision=808855

I'm webdeveloper using many applications at once and I need many virtual desktops to manage that. I use displaying names in pager and I named my desktops as: "browsers", "code", "gimp", "chat", "other". It means 5 virtual desktops.

Up to now it was really easy to use virtual desktops. When I needed to do browsers test I just looked for "browsers" in pager and clicked it. Unfortunately after mart's changes text description is not displayed until I hover desktop in pager. This forces me to use one of theses two solutions:
1) Remember position of each virtual desktop
2) Hover desktops in pager one by one to find proper one

I agree new effect is nice but in breaks usability. Can we revert this patch or corrent this somehow? I hope you can see my point.