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Back in 2005, a bug report was filed by Kjetil Kjernsmo, then running KDE 3.3.2 on Debian Stable. He wanted the ability to have each connected screen show a different virtual desktop independently, rather than having all displays switch as one unit.

Over the years, over 15 duplicate reports piled onto the original as more people ran into the same wall. And that's not a surprise, because multi-monitor setups have become increasingly common.

The technical reason why this issue stayed open this long comes down to X11. Implementing it there would have required violating the EWMH specification, which has no concept of multiple virtual desktops being active at the same time.

The KWin maintainer Martin Flöser had said as much in 2013, effectively ruling it out for the entire KDE 4.x series. The only realistic path was through Wayland, and that path needed someone willing to actually walk it.

Someone finally did. The feature has now landed in KWin's master branch and is set for a Plasma 6.7 introduction.

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[–] markz@suppo.fi 8 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Vibe coding is not a correct use of ai tools. You can't trust the code if the developer doesn't understand it.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 3 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

Why are we assuming he didn't and it must be "AI"?

[–] markz@suppo.fi 2 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

I am not part of that "we", I don't know what this is and I'm not assuming anything.

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 1 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

You begged the question. You assumed "AI" use and then made a vibe-coding accusation without evidence.

[–] markz@suppo.fi 1 points 15 hours ago

No, I did not.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Seemingly just because the title has "PHP dev" in it. It's not entirely fair.