QML Placces design discussion

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:40:15 +0100, Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 February 2013, Mark wrote:
>
>> That would probably be the best way i guess.
>> But then we still have an empty taskbar area occupied by the pager
>> during the 4.10 cycle. I can hardly imagine that to be the 
>> intention?
>>
>> It's just a simple QML one liner.. If you want i can commit the 
>> change
>> (as posted a few posts back) to 4.10..
>>
>> When i brought this issue up in RB and moved it to this list i was
>> actually expecting a reply like: "Ohh, we introduced a new pager in
>> 4.10 that occupies space without putting anything in it by default.
>> Lets fix that asap." But there is nothing like that. Like you guys
>> just don't see it as an issue.. Why is that?
>
> i wouldn't be against not shipping the pager by default.
> there is just one thing that doesn't sound about right.
> should also be easy to go back to multiple desktop, and if the pager 
> is not
> there, then the user can easiuly increase the number of desktops in
> systemsettings, but then doesn't get any pager and looks like setting 
> that
> option didn't have any effects (i can already sense bug reports for 
> that :p)

Since the virtual desktop kcm is already shown from within the pager 
applet
configuration dialog, maybe it can simply be removed from 
systemsettings? This
way the only way to configure virtual desktops is through the pager 
applet,
which means it has to be present.

Aurélien