Bug 376731 - Odd numbering and listing of desktops.
Summary: Odd numbering and listing of desktops.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 481576
Alias: None
Product: kwin
Classification: Plasma
Component: core (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.23.3
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: KWin default assignee
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Reported: 2017-02-20 19:11 UTC by Joel Koreth
Modified: 2024-06-12 16:54 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Joel Koreth 2017-02-20 19:11:28 UTC
Right Click on an applications's window.
Hover over to move to desktop.
The options listed for me are -
 All Desktops
 1 Desktop 1
 2 Desktop 2
 3 Desktop 3
 4 Desktop 4 
 5 Desktop 5
 6 Desktop 6

Plasma Version : 5.83
Frameworks Version : 5.26

Possibly related to : https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376730
Comment 1 Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2017-02-20 19:21:46 UTC
There is an option to change the names assigned to virtual desktops. I'm assuming this behaviour is there so that if the desktop name is changed, it can display '$desktop_number $desktop_name'
Comment 2 Joel Koreth 2017-02-20 19:28:11 UTC
(In reply to kishore96 from comment #1)
> There is an option to change the names assigned to virtual desktops. I'm
> assuming this behaviour is there so that if the desktop name is changed, it
> can display '$desktop_number $desktop_name'

I know this is a weird question to ask but are you a mallu?
Comment 3 Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2017-02-20 19:37:12 UTC
(In reply to Joel Koreth from comment #2)
> (In reply to kishore96 from comment #1)
> > There is an option to change the names assigned to virtual desktops. I'm
> > assuming this behaviour is there so that if the desktop name is changed, it
> > can display '$desktop_number $desktop_name'
> 
> I know this is a weird question to ask but are you a mallu?

No. Tamil.
Comment 4 Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2017-02-20 19:40:45 UTC
A better behaviour might be to add a colon or a dash between the desktop number and the desktop name, like

 All Desktops
 1: Desktop 1
 2: Desktop 2
 3: Desktop 3
 4: Desktop 4 
 5: Desktop 5
 6: Desktop 6
Comment 5 Martin Flöser 2017-02-20 20:55:18 UTC
I don't think colons or a hyphen would improve it in the general case. It could be still looking weird especially in right to left languages.

Personally I would say the numbers in the beginning need to go. But they are also used as accelerators.
Comment 6 Joel Koreth 2017-02-20 21:04:09 UTC
On Monday, February 20, 2017 8:55:18 PM CST you wrote:
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376731
> 
> Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org> changed:
> 
>            What    |Removed                     |Added
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Component|general                     |core
> 
> --- Comment #5 from Martin Gräßlin <mgraesslin@kde.org> ---
> I don't think colons or a hyphen would improve it in the general case. It
> could be still looking weird especially in right to left languages.
> 
> Personally I would say the numbers in the beginning need to go. But they are
> also used as accelerators.

What does used as accelerators mean?
I also believe it is best if the numbers are completely removed due to the 
redundancy from the default settings. A user will be confused about the point 
of the naming convention if by default it's move to "1: Desktop 1"
Comment 7 Martin Flöser 2017-02-20 21:10:37 UTC
> What does used as accelerators mean?
Alt+2 when the menu is open should move it to desktop 2.
Comment 8 Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2017-02-21 00:35:46 UTC
I can think of two ways forward.

1. Allow users to leave virtual desktops unnamed, keep this as the default, and then display 'Desktop $desktop_number: $desktop_name' in the menu. The colon/ whatever separator is used would then need to be omitted in the empty name case.

2. Display 'Desktop $desktop_number: $desktop_name' if the desktop name has been changed from the default, or else display 'Desktop $desktop_number'. This would probably have the least effect on other components.
Comment 9 Joel Koreth 2017-03-16 04:38:41 UTC
Sorry to bother but has there been any conclusion for this? I know it's a small paper cut but for a user it's an odd to thing to see out of the box for a default naming convention.
Comment 10 kde.org 2021-11-06 18:17:48 UTC
This issue report is quite old. Can you please confirm, that it still persists with KDE 5.23?
Comment 11 Kishore Gopalakrishnan 2021-11-20 14:13:56 UTC
Still reproducible with

Operating System: Arch Linux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0
Qt Version: 5.15.2
Kernel Version: 5.15.2-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Comment 12 Zamundaaa 2024-06-12 16:54:02 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 481576 ***