On 7/10/09, Chani <chan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > so I had a crazy idea, and discussed it with lubos and notmart, and > completely > forgot to mention it at the bof. I brought it up again today and we ended up > with some other ideas too. > > what I wanted is window tagging. instead of virtual desktops and tabs (tabs > seems to be a workaround for window management not being good enough > anyways) I could just have tags on windows, and have a taskbar that groups > by > tag, or have one virtual desktop per tag. perhaps some smart omission of > superfluous tags. > this could be done in stages: first the ability to manually tag, then > session > restore including tags, then virtual desktops automatically following tags > (automatic creation and deletion of desktops would be nice, if done right), > then magical automatic tagging from nepomuk (open a document, hte window > gets > the document's tags), perhaps other automatic tagging...
thinking about it perhaps newly created windows should have the tag of the "currently showing" tag (will there be such a concept?) so it could replace altogether the virtual desktop concept, not sure if adding a new one will involve giving the window a tag by hmm, a decoration window context menu or an ui in the desktop grid effect (or possibly the sebas' columns thinghie) > today I was told that wmii is a window manager that uses tags, so I need to > go > look into that. > > we also daydreamed about how nice it would be if you could save and load > partial-sessions consisting of a group of windows and an activity. > > > sebas had an idea for a new kwin effect to show all virtual desktops: > instead > of showing them as desktops, show them as groups of windows. as a > side-effect > this also avoids the issue of the taskbar showing the wrong stuff because > the > taskbar wouldn't be visible ;) he also wanted the ability to drag&drop > windows > between desktops from such effects. it would probably better cope with tags (having each column with a different tag name and maybe just show ones with a least one window) it would decouple it from the pager so two pagers with different settings would mess up a bit less (or can we have something different from a pager? maybe just a tag list?, i really despised the tiny window previews) > > in hte short term, I think we should add some simple features to make the > current virtual-desktop management more convenient: > -an "add virtual desktop" action in the pager contextmenu > -maybe a way to add/remove them from the desktop grid effect? (yes, I'm > thinking about gnome here) > -errr... I really should've written notes, because i forgot the rest. :) > > comments? > > -- > This message brought to you by eevil bananas and the number 3. > www.chani3.com > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel