QML Placces design discussion

[Oliver Henshaw]

On 12 February 2013 19:06, 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.
Is it feasible to show a placeholder for the (invisible) pager when
the panel is unlocked (or just when the widget explorer is open)? That
would circumvent some of the problems with an invisible pager that
takes up no space.

> 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.