Version: 1.0 (using KDE 4.3.3) OS: Linux Installed from: openSUSE RPMs I actually consider this a regression (bug) and not a feature request as there is lost functionality. I recently switched form GNOME to KDE (previously I was a KDE 3.5.10 user).. I went to configure "Multiple Desktops" with the KWin Compositing and was all happy.. Except I wanted 1 row of desktops with 4 desktops. I went into systemsettings --> Desktop --> Multiple Desktops, and the configuration was not there.. I later found out I had to setup the pager plasmoid (which I previously removed since I use the Kwin effects to change, and do not rely on the pager usage). However, I had to add the pager plasmoid to configure my multiple desktops to my configuration noted above. I then removed the panel plasmoid, and again my configurations were lost. It seems barbaric that to configure multiple desktops to my liking (and keep these settings) I am required to have the pager plasmoid running somewhere. These configurations should be set within systemsettings --> Desktop --> Multiple Desktops and should be configurable by both systemsettings and the pager plasmoid not by ONLY one or the other. In previous versions of KDE3 this was available within both.
For KDE 4.4. it is planned to have the number of rows settings in the multiple desktop kcm. It is actually added but requires some work in Plasma. Unfortunately the relevant specification requires that the layout is set by the pager and not by the window manager. So even if the option is moved to multiple desktop kcm you will need the pager plasmoid.
Are you talking about the "Desktop grid" effect? You can configure the layout to use: 1. the pager 2. "automatic" 3. personalized.
David, That's the point, you're "required" to have the pager plasmoid, which shouldn't be a requirement for kcm style features (ie they were in kcm along with pager in KDE 3). I understand that work between kcm / plasmoids is currently underway. Anyway.. I'm talking about any "workspace" layout, and not just the desktop grid. The same configuration is true with "Desktop Cube" along with the "Desktop Grid".
There is option to configure virtual desktop in system settings (KDE 4.4.92). But it's still buggy. For example, if you delete pager widget, and configure only in system settings: choose custom layout (1 row), desktop grid show desktops in 1 row. But if you try to slide between desktops(mouse wheel),you slide in rows !
Git commit 4bf7761307a2453a63d918c60e13c26980727830 by Martin Gräßlin. Committed on 24/07/2011 at 14:59. Pushed by graesslin into branch 'master'. Move control of desktop layout from pager to KWin The desktop layout (number of rows) should be controlled by the window manager as it is also responsible for the number of desktops and the names of them. The setting for the rows is moved from the pager UI to the virtual desktops KCM. The desktop layout is set when KWin starts and updated by the KCM. With this change there is no process claiming the manager selection for pager any more. This means the KDE Plasma Workspaces are no longer compliant to the complete section of _NET_DESKTOP_LAYOUT in the EWMH. REVIEW: 102073 BUG: 277965 FEATURE: 105779 FEATURE: 213353 FIXED-IN: 4.8.0 M +10 -0 kwin/workspace.cpp M +2 -2 kwin/kcmkwin/kwindesktop/main.ui M +4 -57 plasma/desktop/applets/pager/pagerConfig.ui M +30 -8 kwin/kcmkwin/kwindesktop/main.cpp M +0 -3 plasma/desktop/applets/pager/pager.h M +10 -47 plasma/desktop/applets/pager/pager.cpp http://commits.kde.org/kde-workspace/4bf7761307a2453a63d918c60e13c26980727830
Bulk change: move all KWin kcm bugs to product kwin