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Grouping Desktop

Grouping Desktop is an activity type for the Plasma shells. It allows you to group the widgets you placed on your desktop in different ways.

After you have installed it, you can select Grouping Desktop as your activity from the desktop settings. Click on the desktop toolbox and select "Desktop Preferences". Here select the "Activity" page and then from the drop-down menu "GroupingDesktop". Click on Ok and you have a grouping Desktop!

Grouping Panel

Grouping Panel is a panel with support for grouping your widgets.

You can add a Grouping Panel clicking on the desktop toolbox and then on "Add Panel". Then select "GroupingPanel" from the list. You can then move the new and configure the new panel as if it was a normal one.

Groups

The groups are special items which can be used to group other items, widgets or other groups. There are several types of groups, all with a different way of grouping their items. Moving, rotating or removing a group will propagate the action to its items.

  • Floating Group: Leaves the widgets you put inside it free to move as if they were on the default desktop.
  • Grid Group: Puts its items in a grid.
  • Stacking Group: Places its children one over the other, with every one of them moved a little to show the one under it.
  • Tabbing Group: Creates one or more pages of widgets selectables by a tab bar. Every page puts its children inside a grid.
  • Flow Group: Puts its items in a row or column.

Usage

You can add a group clicking with the right button on the desktop or panel, select "Add a new group" and from there the type of group. The new group will be created under your mouse.
Then you can add widgets in the new group moving an already created widget over it or dropping one from the widget selector. As you put a widget inside a group you can remove it simply by dragging it.

These pages comprise the group Applications/Desktop