QML Placces design discussion

[Mark]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Aurélien Gâteau <agateau at kde.org> wrote:
> 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.

I'm just going to assume you're making a joke here.

In case you're not: bad idea!