QML Placces design discussion

[Aurélien Gâteau]

Le Tuesday 12 February 2013 23:55:39 Mark a écrit :
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Shaun Reich <sreich at kde.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 10:40 AM, Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin at kde.org> 
wrote:
> >> Technical implementation aside: I think that makes absolute sense:
> >> * one vd by default
> >> * do not show pager for one vd
> >> * show pager if user uses more vds
> > 
> > i agree that showing the pager only for on vd is a bit weird. but the
> > issue
> > i'd like to address is that if you make the pager invisible and not taking
> > up space, then when the user is browsing the widget explorer seeing what
> > he
> > can add to the panel, he tries to add the pager widget, wondering what
> > that
> > does. but no feedback is given for adding it, and so they add it 10 more
> > times.
> > 
> > as mentioned in the rb, i've personally witnessed this happen, and this
> > seems to confuse people, because they have no idea they need to go into
> > system settings and set the virtual desktop to > 1. if it said so/told
> > them, i imagine that would be fine as well.
> > 
> >> Focus on technical implementation: I don't care much and cannot judge it,
> >> but
> >> my personal vote would be to just drop the pager from the default setup.
> > 
> > I agree on this, since I don't see virtual desktops being used by people
> > other than power users. After all, we've got activities and we should be
> > focusing/refining on that for the majority of our users.
> > 
> > i think that if we remove it from the default setup, we don't have to
> > worry
> > about hiding the pager contents in the 1 vd scenario at all.
> 
> Why are you folks discarding my usecase completely? Not even one
> comment on it. My usecase is very valid, i'm having it right now as i
> type this mail.

What Shaun and Martin suggest would actually fix your problem. If the pager is 
not in the default setup, then there is no need to hide it when only one vd is 
there, so you would be able to add the widget to your panel and see your 
windows.

Aurélien