Bug 461399

Summary:	In overview effect, Virtual Desktops are shown as flattened arrangement, but spatial arrangement is preserved from the perspective of using the touchpad switching gestures
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	John Iliopoulos <jxftw2424>
Component:	Gestures	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	herzenschein, nate, postix
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	usability
Version First Reported In:	5.26.2
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460774 https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460661
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Description John Iliopoulos 2022-11-04 06:32:23 UTC

SUMMARY
Enabling vertical virtual desktops will show all desktops as horizontal in the overview, this would be fine except i can't then scroll between them horizontally using the three finger gesture. This is mostly usable for a simple 2x2 matrix but any configuration more complicated like that and it will cause issues.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Enable overview if not already enabled
2. Enable vertical virtual desktops, possibly make a more complex configuration too. Like 3 desktops on top and 2 on the bottom.
3. Open overview with meta+w or using the 4 finger gesture
4. use the horizontal 3 finger gesture to scroll between them.

OBSERVED RESULT
You will not be able to scroll between these desktops, you will need to use the vertical three finger swipe which causes a disconnect between what you see at the time and how the virtual desktops behave

EXPECTED RESULT
You should be able to scroll through the desktops horizontally the way they are layed out you while using the overview.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 37
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.2
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.99.0
Qt Version: 5.15.6
Kernel Version: 6.0.5-300.fc37.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 4 × Intel® Core™ i7-4600U CPU @ 2.10GHz
Memory: 7.6 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4400
Manufacturer: LENOVO
Product Name: 20ARS10P05
System Version: ThinkPad T440s

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Overview could also show the virtual desktops properly but i am not so sure this is a good idea usability wise. mostly due to the "add virtual desktop" button