People with multiple displays are definitely going to be a minority. And not all of them will be using virtual desktops. And not all of those might have an issue with how they work now.
Yeah … I’m one of those people who like the way they work now. I really hope that the current behavior will still be achievable in the new system.
When I switch virtual desktops, I want every screen to change. Each virtual desktop is a different project, and most of those projects are spread out over multiple screens. When I switch between projects, I want all of it to switch to that project. And if I want something to stay put while switching, well, that’s what ‘move to desktop --> all desktops’ is for. (Honestly, I think most of the people clamoring for this new feature simply don’t know how to use the ‘show on all desktops’ feature that already exists.)
I’ve got 6 screens and 8 virtual desktops. If I have to switch each screen’s desktop individually, that’s going to be a huge pain in the ass. I really really do hope they include a way to lock all screens together and make them all switch at the same time every time, just like the old behavior.
“VirtualDesktopManager now tracks the current virtual desktop separately for each output. By default it switches the desktop on all outputs together, but there is now an option to enable switching desktops separately for each output.”
Good news, you can do nothing and keep your workflow!
But also, I’ve been clamoring for this feature, because I do have just one screen that I want to swap between multiple desktops and going through the effort of setting up “show on all desktops” for every window I open on every other screen is a pain in the ass.
Isn’t choice great?
Nice!
FYI, you can use KWin rules to automatically set window properties like “on all desktops” for certain application/window types if you want
I really hope that the current behavior will still be achievable in the new system.
Well, you shouldn’t have skipped the demo vid in the MR then. :)
It should be an optional toggle, and likely a behavior that’s off by default.
Well, you shouldn’t have skipped the demo vid in the MR then. :)
Some of us ain’t got the internet bandwidth to be watching videos frivolously.
Yeah … I’m one of those people who like the way they work now. I really hope that the current behavior will still be achievable in the new system.
This isn’t Gnome! You don’t need to worry.
Your way of working is kind of baked into the EWMH standard (which is used e.g. for programmatically sending a window to a specific virtual desktop), in that it assumes there to only be one set of virtual desktops.
I imagine, that’s a big part of the reason why this implementation got delayed for so long. And it’s why I don’t think your way of working is going anywhere…(Honestly, I think most of the people clamoring for this new feature simply don’t know how to use the ‘show on all desktops’ feature that already exists.)
Well, much like it would be a pain for you to switch each screen individually, it’s a pain for me to enable “show on all desktops” for each window that I drag to the secondary screen. And of course, that still does not allow actually using multiple different desktops on the secondary screen, which is also a legitimate use.
Personally, I have usually 1 screen, sometimes 2 or 3 screens, and 20+ virtual desktops, so yeah, it really is a pain…
By default it switches the desktop on all outputs together
Finally! The current implementation added recently was pretty disappointing, it just let you switch the desktop on the primary screen without affecting the others, but it worked by simply making windows on secondaries display on every virtual desktop. :/
I really missed proper virtual desktop per screen from tiling WMs…
