The QML Pager plasmoid

[Mark]

Hi,

We've already had a long lengthy discussion about this [1] and i'm
really not about to start that over again. The conclusions thus far
seem clear to me, but they are for the future and still "leave a gap"
(in every sense) for the current 4.10 cycle.

The conclusions:
- Remove the pager by default
- When one adds the pager it should be expected that the user really
wants to add the pager so show it regardless the number of VD's.

Some more conclusions in case the pager would stay (copied from
Aaron's mail regarding this subject)
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* hide the pager applet in the chooser when there is only 1 VD. this isn't
great as it means if you have only 1 VD you don't get a pager ever. it also
means lots of instrumentation in the chooser (and probably more stuff in the
applet .desktop files) to make this happen. -1

* put a configuration option in the pager which controls the "hide when VD ==
1" behaviour. this could be a hidden config value defaulting to off, allowing it
to be used by the default panel script .. or it could be in the UI, making it
easy to set whenever.

personally, i lean towards hidden config. if you want a pager that's always
visible, just add one.
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I personally lean towards removing the pager completely and make it
always visible when it gets added. Right now we are in the situation
where the pager "empty gap" is being noticed and reported [2]

I'd like to do the following:
1. for the next 4.10.x patch release patch the main.qml file for this
pager and just show it always. That solves the open gap issue and
fixes the out of the box experience in this case.
2. for the next release (4.11) remove the pager altogether from the
default setup. I do like to know where and how to do that since i
don't know :)

I really like to jump to some final conclusions here for the 4.10.2 release.
Does this sound like a good plan?

Kind regards,
Mark

[1] http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-devel/2013-February/023991.html
[2] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312684