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This idea is for a variant of the desktop containment that can store more widgets than you can see at any one time. The containment has scroll bars that allow you to scroll the containment left-right and/or up-down. It would be sort of like panning on a desktop, except it wouldn't affect the windows on the desktop.

I think, if it is possible, that it would be very useful if you could put this containment inside a desktop containment. So your desktop containment is the size of your screen, but inside of that containment is a widget (probably looking similar to the folderview widget) that you can put widgets inside of and scroll to fit more widgets than you can see at any one time (similar to how you can scroll in folderview to see more icons).

Such features were suggested here.

That idea seems to contain a bunch of separate and largely independent ideas all lumped together. This idea is for something very specific, something that does not contain all of those other aspects.

I don't think so:
That are all ideas for advanced container-features belonging together.
That would be the same Container-Plasmoids and the same Dialog for such preferences.

The User wrote:I don't think so:
That are all ideas for advanced container-features belonging together.
That would be the same Container-Plasmoids and the same Dialog for such preferences.

This idea is not for an advanced container that contains all of those things, this is for a very specific container that only includes one or two changes compared to the existing desktop containment. I don't want all those other features, I just want a container that scrolls.

Nevertheless I have voted for this feature.

In KDE 4.4 netbook workspace, there is a good feature of newspaper activity where we can scroll the desktop.

But it just puts all the widgets in two columns.

It should allow placing widgets anywhere and should scroll horizontally as well.

This will help users to spread windows / widgets freely on the desktop.

This seems more about newspaper activity and idea of activity.
And the Layout/Grid/Containers/... seems to include this idea. You would not need to have all other features enabled.

The problem is that that idea is all-or-nothing in terms of implementation. Implementing a containment that only allowed scrolling would satisfy this idea, while it would not satisfy that idea.

TheBlackCat wrote:The problem is that that idea is all-or-nothing in terms of implementation. Implementing a containment that only allowed scrolling would satisfy this idea, while it would not satisfy that idea.

As far I can read that idea, it is not all-or-nothing. You could only have scrolling feature if wanted. No need to have anything else. So it would satisfy your needs as well, as those who needs more.

No, I said "all-or-nothing in terms of implementation." (emphasis added). If someone programmed a new containment that just had scrolling, nothing else, then my idea would be considered "done" while the other idea would not.

First of all there has to be a proper system for containments in containments. I do not think it has changed that it is impossible to nest them without limitations or hacks.
With such support it would not be much easier to implement arbitrary layouts or scrollbars...

Have you checked out the container widget?

Can I find it in SVN?

TheBlackCat wrote:No, I said "all-or-nothing in terms of implementation." (emphasis added). If someone programmed a new containment that just had scrolling, nothing else, then my idea would be considered "done" while the other idea would not.

The ideas does not demand that you need to implent all the features right away.

In that case someone could just implent first scrolling, someone else then few others and possible leave some other left.

Submitted ideas does not demand they will be implented fully. That is impossible because there is always a usability question and many things needs something else, like new features or less features. Example in here, the advanced container includes your idea in exactly same way but has better ideas as well what are needed, but some ideas were problematic. Thats why it is better to focus to that what already has exactly the same idea of scrolling container and what can be implented separated from those others.