Bug 446448

Summary:	Dynamically created virtual desktops
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Podagric <kde.podagric>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	REPORTED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	cameronsmith002, chermnykh2001, nate, the.rhorn
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	master
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Podagric 2021-12-03 22:04:59 UTC

SUMMARY
I've built kde from the git repository using kdesrc-build to test the new overview effect and I can confirm that it's working fine so far, except that I'm constantly creating and deleting workspaces manually.

EXPECTED RESULT
For this type of workflow with multiple workspaces to work properly, workspaces need to be created and deleted as per their current state.
That is, if workspace 1 has a window, workspace 2 must be created automatically, and when this new workspace also has another window, workspace 3 must be created.
I believe that my attempt to explain it is quite easy to understand since this operation already exists in GNOME and is quite popular.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
It is currently possible to do this in kwin with a script available from the KDE store, but it is quite buggy and this should be something already available in kwin itself

Comment 1 Cameron Smith 2025-01-29 08:44:50 UTC

+1 for this, I was about to add a bug myself as I've heard quite a number of people want this feature.

As a caveat, I think this should probably only exist when there is just one row of virtual desktops, as having an entire NxN boundary of dynamically added virtual desktops is a bit gross. Nonetheless I do think this could be a very good feature to add, I do miss this feature from GNOME.

Plasma 6.3.80
Frameworks 6.11.0
Qt 6.8.1
Wayland