Bug 249242

Summary:	Allow user to change how virtual desktops are ordered
Product:	[Unmaintained] plasma4	Reporter:	Alf Mel <alf>
Component:	widget-pager	Assignee:	Plasma Bugs List <plasma-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	laidig, wonko
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Arch Linux
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Alf Mel 2010-08-27 17:56:11 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.5.0) 
OS:                Linux

At least in the English version, virtual desktos are ordered from left to right, top to bottom.  Based on how I organize my work and with the new ability to quickly add new virtual desktops, I would like the ability to have them renumbered.  For example, right now I use 6 desktops and they are numbered as:

  1  2  3
  4  5  6

If I add to more, the numbering becomes:

  1  2  3  4
  5  6  7  8

However, I would like to have them numbered from top to bottom, then left to right, as follows:

  1  3  5
  2  4  6

Then going to

  1  3  5  7
  2  4  6  8

In my mind, that numbering makes a lot more sense.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Wonko 2010-11-07 22:16:57 UTC

This would be nice, yes.

And what I miss VERY MUCH ist the ability to exchange desktops. I am currently re-organizing my desktops, and remove two of them. So the layout would change from:

1  2  3  4
5  6  7  8

to:

1  2  3
5  4  7

So I remove 6 and 8, but I also have to exchange 4 and 5. In my case it's just a matter of moving some windows around, but only because I just removed all plasma stuff I had configured (hunting a plama bug). And moving plasmoids to other desktops (I have different activities per desktop) it not possible AFAIK.

The reason for me wantnig this is that #1 is for local admin stuff, and #5 for remote administration of servers with NX, rdesktop and such. I like those two admin desktops to be besides themselves and got used to it.

This should be only a matter of exchanging some numbers in some files in .kde4/share/config/, but maybe it's hard to change this while KDE is runnung.

Comment 2 Nate Graham 2018-06-08 20:27:27 UTC

Hello!

This feature request was filed for KDE Plasma 4, which reached end-of-support status in August 2015. KDE Plasma 5's desktop shell has been almost completely rewritten for better performance and usability, so it is likely that this feature request is already implemented in Plasma 5, or is no longer applicable.

Accordingly, we hope you understand why we must close this feature request. If the requested feature is still desired but not implemented in KDE Plasma 5.12 or later, please feel free to open a new ticket in the "plasmashell" product after reading https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved/Bug_Reporting

If you would like to get involved in KDE's bug triaging effort so that future mass bug closes like this are less likely, please read https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved#Bug_Triaging

Thanks for your understanding!

Nate Graham

Comment 3 Alf Mel 2018-06-10 00:38:16 UTC

I appreciate the update. This feature has not been implemented in Plasma 5. Instead of closing it, you should move it to Plasma 5 since it is still applicable.