[Bug 1497404] Re: Virtual desktop pager configuration confusing

[Krótki]

I am on Kubuntu Disco Dingo and the issue still exists. I work with
virtual desktops not by having a preset number of them, but by creating
and removing them on demand as I see fit. This is easy to achieve by
using the "Add Virtual Desktop" and "Remove Virtual Desktop" options in
the Pager's context menu.

Everything works as I expect when there exist at least two virtual
desktops. But once I have 2 of them and use the Pager's "Remove Virtual
Desktop" option, the whole Pager just disappears. Then I don't have an
easy way to r-add a second virtual desktop. The only possibility is to
open System Settings's page on virtual desktops and add a new desktop
there, which is rather inconvenient.

(On a related note, there is an inconsistency between the Pager's
behaviour when adding a new virtual desktop, and doing the same in
System Settings. Adding a desktop in Pager causes its name to be
"Dekstop 2", "Desktop 3" etc., while doing the sate in System Settings
always sets the name to "New desktop".)

I would suggest that the Pager's behaviour when there is only one
virtual desktop should be configurable in the Pager widget's settings.
And the default setting should be to always show the Pager, because as
described by Rudolf Leitgeb above, it is rather confusing for a new user
when she tries to add a Pager to a panel and the action apparently
fails. The current behaviour breaks the Principle of Least Astonishment.

It is worth noting that there is a workaround for this issue. There is an alternate Pager widget on KDE Store whose only difference is it remains visible with one virtual desktop:
https://store.kde.org/p/1167789/

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  Virtual desktop pager configuration confusing

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