Bug 173472

Summary:	KDE 4 should have a Different Background Per Virtual Desktop Feature
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Shlomi Fish <shlomif>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description Shlomi Fish 2008-10-24 22:39:06 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
OS:                Linux
Installed from:    Compiled sources

KDE 3 has a feature where you can set a different background (wallpaper, etc.) for each virtual desktop / virtual workspace. I like and depend on this feature because this way I can readily distinguish between the virtual desktops, and because it makes my computer usage more lively. I considered it a KDE killer feature.

So I was very disappointed to discover this feature has disappeared in KDE-4.0.x and still not restored in KDE-4.1.x or in KDE-4.1.70 as installed by Mandriva Linux Cooker. As a result of this lack, I found using KDE 4 extremely frustrating (due to the phenomenon documented in http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057.html ) - so much that I now returned to KDE 3 temporarily.

Please fix it, or let me know what I can to help (I'm a programmer who knows C++).

Regards,

-- Shlomi Fish

Comment 1 George Kiagiadakis 2008-10-24 22:46:34 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 155150 ***