Bug 363249

Summary: "Icon mode" that displays an expanded representation with the virtual desktops, rather than showing everything in the compact representation
Product: [Plasma] plasmashell Reporter: FabiB <plusfabi>
Component: Pager widgetAssignee: Eike Hein <hein>
Status: RESOLVED INTENTIONAL    
Severity: wishlist CC: bhush94, herzenschein, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: master   
Target Milestone: 1.0   
Platform: Other   
OS: Linux   
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Description FabiB 2016-05-19 01:04:28 UTC 
there is a widget that lets you switch between virtual desktop.
the good thing is that its easy to use. the bad thing is that it uses really much space in you panel if you have many virtual desktops.

on windows there is also such a widget on you bar. here it is an icon, you can click on and it will show you all your virtual desktops.

so my idea is that it will be possible on linux too to run this widget as "icon", when you click on it it will show you all your desktops

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. set desktop switcher plasmoid into you plasma bar
2. set to have 5 virtual desktop

Actual Results:  
it takes much space ....

Expected Results:  
it should be possible to have only an icon that shows the desktop only on click.
Comment 1 FabiB 2016-05-22 13:13:24 UTC 
in other words a icon/desktop widget that runs
qdbus org.kde.kglobalaccel /component/kwin org.kde.kglobalaccel.Component.invokeShortcut ShowDesktopGrid
on click
Comment 2 Thiago Sueto 2020-10-27 14:05:58 UTC 
It seems like you want Zren's Present Windows Button: https://store.kde.org/p/1181039/
Comment 3 Nate Graham 2023-05-16 23:03:12 UTC 
Yep. I'd recommend just using that.