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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 199729] Enabling "different activities for each desktop"
From:       Jakob Lehmann <jamano910 () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2010-06-09 3:51:00
Message-ID: 20100609035100.BE996447C1 () immanuel ! kde ! org
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--- Comment #47 from Jakob Lehmann <jamano910 googlemail com>  2010-06-09 05:50:55 ---
(In reply to comment #46)
> Just out of curiosity: how do you use the activities? back in 4.x.x something I
> tried the Activities Switcher or whatever it was called which didn't work at
> all for me. The PVD way seems much more functional and kinda works for me (on
> 4.4.4). I also think that it it would be the most intuitive way for newcomers
> to KDE. I've been using KDE since 0.<something> and having both Virtual
> desktops AND Activities is confusing. I know Virtual Desktops is something that
> have been in Linux/Unix for years but it adds to the complexity when adding yet
> another layer.
> In my POV it would be The Right Way to have either Activities OR Virtual
> Desktops or merge them in a way that would be intuitive to use.
> Quite possibly I just haven't grasped the concept yet - or it might just be too
> complex.

That is exactly what I was gonna say, activities like I understand them is
really a more advanced kind virtual desktops, most people use virtual desktop
for doing different kind of things, for example work stuff on desktop #1 and
fun stuff on desktop #2.
Activities take this approach and get it to the next level, not only can
certain windows be placed to a certain activity, but activities can also
dinamically be added, stopped, changed and deleted.
Being like that I believe the traditional "virtual desktops" should be removed
from KDE, this would propably even be not to much of a change technically,
instead of the different *static* set of desktops, *dynamic* activities are
used, this means that instead of my (say) 2 desktops in my little pager
plasmoid, I am displayed my currently running activities, when I use effects
like the desktop cube, my currently running activities are shown, were now
virtual desktops are shown.
In my opinion this would remove a lot clutter and would sharpen the use case of
activities, having virtual desktops and acitivities seems indeed confusing.

Aaron, is this the way KDE is heading with activities?

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