Bug 435849

Summary:	Layout independent of the system settings
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	Rind <kde.milrind>
Component:	Pager widget	Assignee:	Eike Hein <hein>
Status:	RESOLVED INTENTIONAL
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	kde.podagric, kde, nate, plasma-bugs
Priority:	NOR
Version:	5.21.4
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Other
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439698
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Description Rind 2021-04-17 15:02:53 UTC

SUMMARY
Currently the applet follows the layout that is defined by the number of rows in the settings menu of the virtual desktops, and this will not always bring the proper visualization of the desktops inside the applet.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a panel that is less tall than the standard plasma, like one about 34 pixels high
2. In the virtual workspace settings, create four of them and set the divider to two lines

OBSERVED RESULT
The applet will follow the specified layout and will be extremely small inside the panel.

EXPECTED RESULT
The applet could have its own layout configuration and allow you to choose a more suitable view depending on where it is. In this reported case, the visualization of a single line would be ideal.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
KDE Plasma Version: 5.21.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.81.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.11.14-arch1-1
Graphics Platform: X11

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
This type of layout (2x2) is the best fit for wide screens like mine (24" monitor, 16:9), because it takes up all the available space and keeps them all organized. But the problem will get worse as more lines are used to divide the display, making this useful applet almost unusable in this scenario.
https://i.imgur.com/LE48F57.png

Using only one line, it will not be efficient when the number of work areas starts to go from two.
https://i.imgur.com/TgnzT7S.png

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2021-04-21 18:23:57 UTC

I'm not sure we can do this, sorry. The pager has to be an accurate representation of the virtual desktop arrangement rather than an abstraction of it, because we allow the desktops to be a user-customizable two-dimensional grid. It would be super confusing if you had uses a one-dimensional list that got represented in the pager as a two-dimensional grid, or a grid that got represented as a list, or a grid that got re-arranged in the pager into a different kind of grid, etc. We'd get tons and tons of bug reports. :)

Comment 2 Podagric 2021-07-09 21:35:31 UTC

You can do it! Please see it https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=439698