I'm a bit worried that it's now off by default, because this is one behavior I really like about KDE. Just leave the background visible somewhere and you can switch virtual desktops with ease. I know you can just click on the graphical virtual desktop display in the toolbar, but once I became used to it then it became muscle memory and now it's harder to do without it. The reason not making it a default worries me is that sometimes that makes it a nice candidate for "something we can remove that will only affect a minority of users". And it will be a minority of users, because most users won't even know it's an option.
(Author here): Users new to KDE don't know what's up with the feature. They miss a window and suddenly they're on a different virtual desktop. If they connect the behavior they may feel like "ooh, I've discovered a new trick" -- or they may feel like the desktop is unpredictable.
It would be a good candidate for one of those first-use "did you know you can" type things.
I guess I should have stated that I agree that it can be confusing and that it might actually be better to have it turned off by default. I'm just expressing my worry that it will go away entirely soon if no one remembers it. I think I've been traumatized by firefox dropping things randomly, lol.
Thank you, this was exactly my experience when I installed Nobara 39 last month. Took me a good minute to find where turn it off, but I'm glad it's configurable. I agree the default should be off.
I'm in the camp of folks that think it confuses more than it helps. I'm glad there's still the option for those that are used to it, but too much of this kind of thing drives new users a little nuts.
It'd be interesting to provide an on-ramp for folks to progressively explore such things, but doing that accidentally is probably not it.
