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Bug 635341 - Shoudn't pager rows and orientation be only visual and not alter the ws layout
Shoudn't pager rows and orientation be only visual and not alter the ws layout
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: libwnck
Classification: Core
Component: pager
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: libwnck maintainers
libwnck maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-11-20 11:23 UTC by Nick Schermer
Modified: 2015-04-27 17:53 UTC
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Description Nick Schermer 2010-11-20 11:23:55 UTC 
To me it seems strange the pager rows and orientation also alter the workspace layout of the screen. This way a user can never configure 2 pagers on the panel. Unneeded IMHO and something you wouldn't expect the be handled by the pager.
Comment 1 Vincent Untz 2011-02-03 15:12:53 UTC 
Well, the workspace layout of the screen is explicitly set by pagers, according to the spec. Where would you want to it, else?
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2011-02-03 15:13:41 UTC 
Also, thinking a bit more about it: having two pagers, each one with a different layout, sounds highly confusing to me. I'm not sure we want to support that.
Comment 3 Tobias Mueller 2011-03-21 13:55:07 UTC 
Nick, please elaborate on your idea and reopen the bug report then. Thanks in advance!
Comment 4 Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak 2013-01-18 14:02:59 UTC 
This bug is referenced from XFCE4 bugzilla:

https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6961

and also related is this Fedora Bugzilla entry:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728975

For me (Fedora 18, XFCE 4.10, libwnck-2.30.7) the problem is that I have two pagers on my dual-head desktop (two panels - each on one screen - and each with its own pager). My desktop is set up as 3x3 virtual desktops.

When I log in, one of the pager displays 3x3 desktops as expected, and the other one is configured as 1x9 (i.e. one row of 9 desktops). When I right-click on that pager and open Properties, it immediately goes back to the 3x3 layout.

I am not sure whether this was what Nick Schermer meant. So I will not reopen the bug myself (yet?). I am just describing the problem I see on my system.
Comment 5 Dave Gilbert 2015-04-27 17:53:36 UTC 
Vincent Untz: Two pagers with a *different* layout, as you say is odd, however, two pagers with the *same* layout is reasonable; e.g. one on each monitor.  The problem is that the number of rows shouldn't be a property of the pager, it should be a property of the workspace system itself, that way the pagers are purely views and don't change anything.