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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Moving multiple windows to a desktop at once
From:       William Leese <william () leese ! nl>
Date:       2004-04-26 19:58:21
Message-ID: 408D69DD.1060303 () leese ! nl
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Jamethiel Knorth wrote:
>> From: William Leese <william@leese.nl>
>> Jamethiel Knorth wrote:
>>> I like the idea, but I have some doubts. That seems like it could be 
>>> exceedingly confusing. Fortunately, it is only a power-user feature 
>>> and not somewhere that most users will bump into it accidentally.
>>>
>>> If there are five windows selected, which one actually has focus, so 
>>> that keyboard actions go to it and the caret is in it? I'd say the 
>>> last one, probably.
>>
>> CTRL+LMB wouldn't change focus. This wouldn't be consistent with it's 
>> usual behavior, but it makes things a little less complex.
> 
> Why shouldn't it change focus, which would be consistent with the usual 
> behavior?

User is working on 1 document and 2 images.

Goal: the user would like to move these to desktop 2.

Incase of focus switching on CTRL+LMB:
The user currently has the document focussed. Now, the user uses 
CTRL+LMB to select the 2 images from the taskbar. The user RMB's the 
selection and does a To Desktop. User switches to desktop 2.

Result: all the selected windows are on desktop 2, but a different 
window is focussed than before.
Expected Result: all the selected windows are on desktop 2.

>>>> Maybe we could also implement the possibility to drag the taskbar 
>>>> entries of a
>>>> window or a selection of windows onto a desktop in the pager, so 
>>>> that the
>>>> windows would be moved to the target desktop.
>>>
>>> That's a nice idea. It's a very natural usage of the pager.
>>>
>>> However, there is a bit of a problem. If you can drag a group of 
>>> windows together, they will probably stay in the same locations 
>>> relative to one another. This would let some windows end up entirely 
>>> off of the screen. The dragging of a group would need to only work 
>>> for dragging to the pager, or there could be serious issues.
>>
>> I don't see how this is any different from doing a RMB->To Desktop on 
>> 5 windows one by one.
> 
> The dragging of multiple windows can never actually move them. That is 
> the issue. The dragging of windows to the pager is a neat idea, but if 
> you can move a group of windows it will be easy to lose one off the side 
> of the screen.

I wasn't talking about onscreen window selection - this requires too 
much thought ;)
And by keeping things simple, the larger the chance there is someone is 
kind enough to implement it for you ;)

I simply meant selecting using the taskbar, and dragging those entries 
to the pager (this would be nice, but I wonder how hard it would be to 
implement) or using the RMB->To Desktop function.

   -- William
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