Plasma + ZUI + virtual desktops

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Sunday 08 June 2008, Matija Šuklje wrote:
> > this essentially works in 4.1...
>
> Yes, but the ZUI is still a bit quirky in 4.1, isn't it? Anyway, from what

a lot better than it was in 4.0.

> I'm reading Chani seems to do a lot of work on making it even cooler for
> 4.2! :]

yes, i'm sure we'll see even more improvements to it in 4.2

> And of course, standard Plasmoids like the
> clock and such could be "sticky" on all desktops.

nope. forget about "stickyness", it's all about grouping into activities. 
trying to manage individual items per-virtual desktop and combine that with 
zooming, activities, compositing window managers showing multiple desktops, 
etc... it's really not worth it.

if you want something to follow you around, that's what panels are for. but 
we're not going to around mixing concepts, nor do i think it's even necessary 
to. the overwhelming number of imaginable use cases are covered by this 
design, it keeps the code in a state that is potentially maintainable, etc.

> Oh, BTW, I remember reading once (on KDE Planet?) that it will be possible
> in 4.2 to have the panel show on some of the desktops (or groups) and not
> on others. Is that true?

doubtful. maybe in the distant (>2 releases?) future. this is one of those 
things that leads to horrible amounts of configuration interface.

> > no. but if you feel guilty anyways, you can always make up for it with a
> > patch ;-P
>
> With my coding skills pretty close to zero, I'd rather stick to
> translating/localising, reporting bugs and ideas. ;)

translations count as patches =)

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