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In the KDE 4.3 version of pager, perhaps earlier versions as well, you can it to show the desktop or the pager if you left click on the current desktop. Also with 4.3, you can set the dashboard to be different than the current desktop. Although useful, this can leave people without an easy way to see widgets on the current desktop.

My idea is that if you middle click on a desktop in the pager, it brings up the dashboard for that desktop, no matter what desktop you are currently in, without switching to that desktop. In the default setup, this just means that middle-clicking anywhere on the pager brings up the dashboard. However, if you assigned the dashboard to be different from the desktop, it gives you a way to show both the dashboard (left click) and the current desktop (middle click). Further, if you set each desktop to have a different activity, it allows you to pull up the widgets on a different desktop without having to switch to that desktop.

As with left-clicking on the current desktop, other options could be assigned to middle-click. Two others occured to me. One is like this one except it shows the desktop you middle-click on, not the dashboard. The other is that middle-clicking brings up your desktop switcher (grid, cube, or sphere).

great idea

TheBlackCat wrote:My idea is that if you middle click on a desktop in the pager, it brings up the dashboard for that desktop, no matter what desktop you are currently in, without switching to that desktop.

KDE 4.3 already gives possibility for different options as you said, just click current desktop on the pager and it will show dashboard, desktop or does nothing. But widgets should not be such difficult to move as you suggest.