different wallpapers per desktop

Ed Greshko ed.greshko at greshko.com
Thu Apr 16 06:21:38 UTC 2015


On 04/16/15 14:11, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 04/15/15 21:49, Glenn Holmer wrote:
>> On 04/15/2015 08:06 AM, Luigi Toscano wrote:
>>> On Wednesday 15 of April 2015 07:35:52 Glenn Holmer wrote:
>>>> In Plasma 5, where's the setting to have different wallpapers on each
>>>> virtual desktop?
>>> I think this was missing also in the old Plasma...
>> Certainly not: System Settings, "Workspace Behavior", "Virtual
>> Desktops", check "Different widgets for each desktop".
>>
>> I'm not finding an option like this in Plasma 5.
>>
> Correct, there is no such option in Plasma 5.
>
> Worse, at first blush, it seems no effort was made to preserve settings in transitioning from 4 to 5.  I just tested a "fedup" from F21 -> F22.  Upon restart and login to Plasma I found the number of virtual desktops had been reset from 4 to 1 and my desktop theme was changed to the default Breeze.  Also, the settings I had for konsole were all reset to what the defaults are for a new install.
>
> I was testing on an F21 VM which wasn't highly customized.  But, I get the feeling many/all desktop customization will be lost in translation.  :-(
>

Oh, also the location of the wallpaper images changed but they aren't moved or linked. 

There may be a "readme" or "release notes" that exist to explain what needs to be done by the user....but I've not looked for it so I may be whining for nothing.  :-) :-)

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