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Separate Folders for virtual Desktops

KDE4 Brainstorm

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Submitted: Mar 25 2006

Description:

You can have different wallpapers for each virtual desktop, but the content remains the same. My idea is to have a separate folder for each desktop, e.g

~/Desktop/.desktop1/
~/Desktop/.desktop2/
~/Desktop/.desktop3/
~/Desktop/.desktop4/

which content is displayed on the desktop. So you could have a primary desktop with lots of HDD/CD/DVD icons, a second one with some important applications and a third and fourth one with folders you need often for your work.

Of course you can also mess these all. This would be a good feature, for folks, who do some different kind of work, so they can have files for project1 on desktop \"Projekt1\" and files for Projekt foo on desktop \"Foo\".

No screenshot yet, but I hope it\'s clear, what I mean ;-)

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0.1 initial thought :-)

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good

by profoX on: Mar 25 2006

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You've got my vote.
Shouldn't be too hard to implement,
and it's more logical

You should be able to configure in kcontrol wether you want this function or not though

(Standard Style1: All desktops have same icons etc, Style2: Place icons etc. on every desktop yourself, desktop that doesnt have icons is empty, Style3: Place icons etc. on every desktop yourself, desktop that doesnt have icons gets soms standard icons defined somewhere)

I dont know.. Good thinking anyway

- profoX
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Re: good

by hili on: Mar 25 2006

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I also see it as an option, not for default. For the styles you mention I thought about having displayed everything in ~/Desktop on each virtual Desktop and things in .desktop1 .desktop2 to be displayed only on the corresponding desktop. But KDE 4 will have layers anyway, so maybe this can be done in a different way.

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by n4w3r on: Mar 25 2006

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good idea, but will take more ram memory

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Re:

by hili on: Mar 25 2006

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KDE4 will need more RAM anyway. Who cares... ;-)

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Re: Re:

by nnn on: Mar 26 2006

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yeah, who cares ? we all have fast computers and are going to buy new computers for kde4, right ? never care about those bastards with old computers, they just should have money ! furthermore, let's use bubble sort, since on fast computers it runs fast !

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Great!

by ibc on: Mar 25 2006

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A very logical option that should exist. Great!

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already exists

by nnn on: Mar 26 2006

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it is called : your home directory ... you can make directories and sub-directories and even more : sub-sub-directories
and to access it, you can configure a keyboard shortcut, else it's by default on the bottom bar

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Re: already exists

by hili on: Mar 26 2006

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Perhaps you didn't understand the idea. I will make a mokup then for the hard ones ;-)

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Re: Re: already exis

by nnn on: Mar 26 2006

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I perfectly understood your idea ! I think you use your desktop to store files as if it was a normal directory, but it was not done for this (can the desktop be scrolled if there are to much files ?)
If you really want "files on the desktop" you can open as much konqueror windows as there are desktop, it will have the same effect and kde won't be rotten with ideas like this...

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Re: Re: Re: already exis

by hili on: Mar 26 2006

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Why do you think, that storing files on the desktop is a bad idea. At least, that one point, why KDE and Gnome are easier to use than normal window managers. And compared to Windows it's a big advatage to have the Desktop as a real directory.

Btw. The scrollbar idea isn't bad nighter ;-)

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Re: Re: Re: Re: already exis

by Warhog on: Apr 1 2006

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i do store my files on the desktop also... it's quite... comfortable :) why should i hangle trough directories and subdirectories? but btw, under windows the desktop is a real-directory too (i even convifugred it via regedit that "my files" where the same directory as like the desktop... (cause every windows-app want to store into your "home-directory"... same thing with KDE, just adjust your paths). and that scrolling idea for the desktop is really intersting ;D

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I need that

by youssouf on: Mar 26 2006

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Good idea!

My virtual desktops are associated with very different tasks... And so, it would be better if on each virtual desktop, there was the files and the applications linked with the task.

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still some common

by ich666 on: Mar 27 2006

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but somehow it should be possible to still have some "common" files on the desktop.

For example I sometimes simply drag a file out of say a web-browser window on desktop1 to the desktop, then switch to desktop2 where my filemanager waits to have it dragged from my desktop somewhere in the filesystem ... would be bad if the file only was available on desktop1 :p

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Re: still some common

by hili on: Mar 27 2006

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For just dragging on the desktop, I dont know how to do it. Maybe a

put on this desktop
put on all desktops

popup is possible, but already quite complicate. For the folders I wrote above, that files in ~/Desktop could be displayed on each desktop, files in .desktop1 .desktop2 etc only on the corresponding one.

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Separate Folders for virtual Desktops

KDE4 Brainstorm

0.1 initial thought :-)

good

Re: good

good idea, but will take more ram memory

Re:

KDE4 will need more RAM anyway. Who cares... ;-)

Re: Re:

yeah, who cares ? we all have fast computers and are going to buy new computers for kde4, right ? never care about those bastards with old computers, they just should have money ! furthermore, let's use bubble sort, since on fast computers it runs fast !

Great!

A very logical option that should exist. Great!

already exists

it is called : your home directory ... you can make directories and sub-directories and even more : sub-sub-directories and to access it, you can configure a keyboard shortcut, else it's by default on the bottom bar

Re: already exists

Perhaps you didn't understand the idea. I will make a mokup then for the hard ones ;-)

Re: Re: already exis

Re: Re: Re: already exis

Why do you think, that storing files on the desktop is a bad idea. At least, that one point, why KDE and Gnome are easier to use than normal window managers. And compared to Windows it's a big advatage to have the Desktop as a real directory. Btw. The scrollbar idea isn't bad nighter ;-)

Re: Re: Re: Re: already exis

I need that

Good idea! My virtual desktops are associated with very different tasks... And so, it would be better if on each virtual desktop, there was the files and the applications linked with the task.

still some common

Re: still some common

it is called : your home directory ... you can make directories and sub-directories and even more : sub-sub-directories
and to access it, you can configure a keyboard shortcut, else it's by default on the bottom bar

Why do you think, that storing files on the desktop is a bad idea. At least, that one point, why KDE and Gnome are easier to use than normal window managers. And compared to Windows it's a big advatage to have the Desktop as a real directory.

Btw. The scrollbar idea isn't bad nighter ;-)

Good idea!

My virtual desktops are associated with very different tasks... And so, it would be better if on each virtual desktop, there was the files and the applications linked with the task.