Bug 464280

Summary: Virtual window behaviour does not work as expected
Product: [Applications] systemsettings Reporter: Peter Humphrey <peter>
Component: kcm_kwinvirtualdesktopsAssignee: KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal CC: nicolas.fella, peter, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Gentoo Packages   
OS: Linux   
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Description Peter Humphrey 2023-01-14 14:58:28 UTC 
SUMMARY
Virtual window behaviour has changed in this release and now it does not work as expected.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1.  Open System Settings and go to Window Management | Window Behaviour | Advanced.
2. Select the desired Virtual Desktop behaviour, then save and exit.
3. Click a link somewhere.

OBSERVED RESULT
Wherever the browser happens to be at present, it is brought to the current desktop and sits on top of whatever is there already, regardless of the choice at 2 above. This is what I'd expect if the browser were not already running on another desktop.

EXPECTED RESULT
The window behaviour should be as advertised.

There should also be a third option: to keep the previous behaviour and leave all windows where they are. (If I'm opening a series of websites while reading, say, Gentoo news release notes, I do not want to have to keep moving windows around when I haven't told them to move.)

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: Gentoo ~amd64; base system release 2.9
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel version: 6.1.5-gentoo-r1
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2023-01-14 15:12:31 UTC 
> There should also be a third option: to keep the previous behaviour and leave all windows where they are. (If I'm opening a series of websites while reading, say, Gentoo news release notes, I do not want to have to keep moving windows around when I haven't told them to move.)

Please file a separate report for this

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 462996 ***
Comment 2 Peter Humphrey 2023-01-14 15:47:50 UTC 
I did search for duplicates but none showed up.

New bug 464283 opened to request the third option.