KDE4 viewport support is "complete"

[Deciare]

That's what the most recent KDE Commit-Digest claims: that viewport support in KDE4 is now "complete". It's actually pretty good. Windows can be sent to other viewports by right-clicking on their taskbar buttons, and the Show only tasks from the current desktop option works without any modification. ^_^ Oh, and window thumbnails are now shown correctly on every desktop in the pager applet, not just on the current desktop.

Unfortunately, the To Desktop->All Desktops option doesn't seem to work at all yet. For some reason, the pager applet still turns into one big desktop when Compiz starts, so they'll hopefully be taking a look at that too... Oh, and trying to change the Number of Desktops from within the pager applet will actually create the kind of "desktop" that Compiz doesn't like, even if the Number of Desktops is set to 1 within ccsm. Maybe KDE's setting works too well. :p

The panel can be made smaller now. ;) It's no longer stuck in that awful 48-pixels-tall mode.

Anyway. PROGRESS! :D KDE's taskbar and pager applets have needed to be patched ever since Compiz came into existence, so it's nice to know that the problem is finally going away for good with upcoming releases of KDE4.

[javielillo]

Good to hear :)

"complete viewport support" includes the support of to have different wallpapers on each viewport or will be needed the creation of a patch (like in KDE 3.5.x) to use the wallpaper plugin?

[Deciare]

As far as I can tell, the Desktop containment plasmoid doesn't currently allow different wallpapers to be assigned to each desktop even when using KWin, so I suppose from that perspective, it isn't any less functional with Compiz.

An earlier post (http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/09/plasma-backgrounds.html) to Aaron Seigo's blog suggests that it will be possible for the desktop background to be drawn by any plasmoid, so the Desktop containment's limitations may be temporary.

[SmSpillaz]

All the deskop drawing plasmoid would have to do would be to make some modifications and set _COMPIZ_WALLPAPER_SUPPORTED so that the wallpaper plugin can do it's magic =)

[yagami]

it would kinda cool , that since compiz supports multi desktops, when changing the desktop also changed plasma activity.

this way we could set wallpaper and plasmoids for each desktop.