I have recently switched from Ubuntu 14.04 to Kubuntu 14.04 and there's one thing that's bugging me...
I have two (identical) monitors and I use multiple workspaces extensively. My workspaces are arranged in two columns of four workspaces, like this:
+--------+--------+
| #1 | #2 |
+--------+--------+
| #3 | #4 |
+--------+--------+
| #5 | #6 |
+--------+--------+
| #7 | #8 |
+--------+--------+
When I used Ubuntu and I pressed the workspace grid hotkey (META+S), my monitors would be laid out like this (sorry for the big complicated ASCII diagrams):
+================Left Monitor================+ +===============Right Monitor================+
| | | |
| +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ |
| | #1 L | #1 R | | #2 L | #2 R | | | | #1 L | #1 R | | #2 L | #2 R | |
| +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ |
| | #3 L | #3 R | | #4 L | #4 R | | | | #3 L | #3 R | | #4 L | #4 R | |
| +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ |
| | #5 L | #5 R | | #6 L | #6 R | | | | #5 L | #5 R | | #6 L | #6 R | |
| +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ |
| | #7 L | #7 R | | #8 L | #8 R | | | | #7 L | #7 R | | #8 L | #8 R | |
| +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ +--------+--------+ |
| | | |
+============================================+ +============================================+
I could then drag windows from one workspace/monitor to another easily - the workspaces & monitors are laid out in a logical arrangement.
But in Kubuntu, the layout is different:
+======Left Monitor======+ +=====Right Monitor======+
| | | |
| +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ |
| | #1 L | #2 L | | | | #1 R | #2 R | |
| +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ |
| | #3 L | #4 L | | | | #3 R | #4 R | |
| +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ |
| | #5 L | #6 L | | | | #5 R | #6 R | |
| +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ |
| | #7 L | #8 L | | | | #7 R | #8 R | |
| +--------+--------+ | | +--------+--------+ |
| | | |
+========================+ +========================+
Also logical, I guess, but it forces me to stop and think carefully about where I'm dragging a window in a way that I didn't have to under Unity. For example, if I want to drag a window from #3L (left monitor, #3 workspace) to #2R (right monitor, #2 workspace), I have to stop and think about exactly which workspace on the right monitor it needs to be dropped on.
Is there a way to reorganize the desktop grid under KDE to match that under Unity?
