Hello KDE guys

I was a huge KDE fan back in the 3.x days. KDE was what kept me on Linux... so I have to take my hat off to you guys for being the reason I run Linux even today. However I now have joined into the tiling WM phenomena, and am now stuck on XMonad.

Though I'm trying to see if I can come back to KDE, however I now have 2 critical pre-requisites before I'll even consider using any DE/WM as my primary work ENV.

#1) Tiling. I've heard rumors of KDE Tiling being added to KDE 4.5 . Is this really true? Of course i know it would be like an "addon" (to plasma?) feature and not at the core of kde of course.

#2) stable/custom keybindings that can be chained. By chaining keys i mean like how emacs does it. I want to be able to press "Winkey+d i" to move to my 'IM' workspace. "Winkey+d Shift+i" to move a window to my 'IM' workspace.... i have a million keybindings that i like... and i need to be able to chain them.


I dont want to plug XMonad or any other WM into KDE. I would want to use KWin.


Forgive me if I sound picky at all... its just that this is the type of stuff that i require to be productive



Thanks KDE guys!!

dankles wrote:#1) Tiling. I've heard rumors of KDE Tiling being added to KDE 4.5 . Is this really true? Of course i know it would be like an "addon" (to plasma?) feature and not at the core of kde of course.

It's true, and part of core KDE. Kwin to be exact. It's not enabled by default, but it's there. Truth be told, I don't know how good someone used to window tiling would consider it to be (not a big fan of tiling myself).
The window tabbing feature though...that I couldn't be without any longer

dankles wrote:#2) stable/custom keybindings that can be chained. By chaining keys i mean like how emacs does it. I want to be able to press "Winkey+d i" to move to my 'IM' workspace. "Winkey+d Shift+i" to move a window to my 'IM' workspace.... i have a million keybindings that i like... and i need to be able to chain them.

Well, both good news and bad news. Pretty much anything in KDE can be assigned a keybinding (both of your examples can be accomplished) but not chaining if I understood what you mean by chaining correctly. Anything can be bound with any combination of modifying keys (say ctrl, meta, alt in combination) + one regular key. So, your examples would have to be reworked to something like:

winkey + 3 move to the IM workspace (assuming it's desktop 3)
winkey + ctrl +3 to move the current window to the IM workspace.

Hope that answer your questions.

Ok thanks Kryten2X4B! I'll setup KDE 4.5 anyways sometime to see how I like it now regardless

You can chain something like this
Meta+K, Meta+R (but Meta needs to be pressed till the end)

ivan wrote:You can chain something like this
Meta+K, Meta+R (but Meta needs to be pressed till the end)

Ok that could be useful. Thanks!