Review Request: "add virtual desktop" action for pager

[Marco Martin]

On Sunday 18 October 2009, Chani wrote:
> > you know what would be cool as a "next step" after this? to have "remove
> >  this virtual desktop" when right clicking on a desktop in the pager ...
> >  add, remove, easy peasy? :)
> 
> I know, I was thinking about it last night...
> the problem is the "this" part.
> first of all contextualActions() doesn't know which desktop the click was
>  on. I could override the contextmenuevent, perhaps...

gah, true.

> but then we run into the second problem: virtual desktops are kinda dumb. I
> don't see any way of removing an arbitrary virtual desktop; I only see API
>  for changing the number of desktops and setting the name of each desktop.
> 
> in order to emulate it, you have to move windows from desktop n to desktop
>  n-1 for all n > the one to delete, rename each of those desktops too, and
>  then decrement the number of desktops.  eeeeew.

yeah, don't see other ways, i wodner if gnome shell does this or they use 
something not in netwm to do that

> on the other hand, it'd be easy to add a "remove last desktop" action.
> 
> while we're on the subject, another frustration of adding virtual desktops
>  is that every addition changes the spatial layout. I've got desktop 6
>  underneath desktop 3 right now, but if I add another desktop then 6 will
>  be under 2 and I'll have to go reorganize half my desktops to match the
>  new layout. I wonder if I can have a set number of *columns* instead of
>  rows, if I put a pager on a virtual panel... that'd work around that
>  annoyance... oh, but the add-widgets bar doesn't work on vertical panels.
>  :( and trying to drag a pager from the addwidgets bar of my horizontal
>  panel to my vertical panel just crashes plasma. *sigh*
> 
> won't it be nice when we can just drag windows to named activities instead?
>  :)
> 


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Marco Martin