Comments on: We all love activities

By: Dread Knight

Dread Knight — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:56:13 +0000

Wish the cashew could be moved to the panel, or that there was a nice and small plasmoid usable in panels to switch between activities; the existent one is huge. I want something more like quickaccess, click and get list of activities because the cashew is really awful, coved up most of the time, not cool.

By: Matt Parry

Matt Parry — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 11:12:00 +0000

Hi! Bruce Byfield has written a very good explanation of KDE’s implementation of activities compared to Gnome and the Sugar interface.

http://lwn.net/Articles/334911/

It was this artical that made me understand the concept and the difference between activities and virtual desktops. This type of documentation should be in kde userbase imho.

Thanks

By: Imoffended

Imoffended — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 11:57:22 +0000

I’m still offended by wallpaper. Please replace it!

Things that offend me and you should avoid:

censorship
religion
stupidity

You can put porn I don’t mind!

By: Burke

Burke — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 08:30:19 +0000

What the hell.

Just because one person was a bit annoyed because of you second wallpaper, you instantly altered that blogpost and removed it? Why? You did neither show any form of pr0n or something which is inappropriate. So why do you not use your freedom to show what is on your desktop? I thing it would have been enough to display a little warning of what is to come – and that enough.

By: Siv

Siv — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:43:38 +0000

@kap4lin: in my opinion, virtual desktops and activities are different: the things that change from an activity to another are the wallpaper and the plasmoids, different in relation of what you want to do/know from them.

I use many desktops because I’d like to have no more than 3 apps for each one, so I can switch via keyboard with as few key combinations as possible.
Yesterday, for example, I was recording some audio, and I had Firefox alone in a desktop, qjackctl and mixer in another, ardour in another, dolphin and some text files in another…

By: jospoortvliet

jospoortvliet — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 07:03:37 +0000

@KenP:
In KDE 4.3, setting up activities is simple:
use the cashew to zoom out,

choose ‘configure plasma’, select ‘different activity for each desktop’ and you’re done. It’s the easiest way – each desktop can now be configured independently.

By: KenP

KenP — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:37:22 +0000

Hi,
Ideally, a short step-by-step tutorial on setting up activities would be helpful. With each iteration of KDE 4.2 and 4.3, I have tried but always end up with naught.
A config dialog to setup activities (preferably in systemsettings) would be perfect!

By: kap4lin

kap4lin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:46:11 +0000

forgot to add one more parameter to this optimization problem – suppose you have a dual monitor setup in twinview, now how many activities+desktop?

By: kap4lin

kap4lin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 01:41:14 +0000

Now, You have 6 desktops, why do you need activities? Or, other way around, you have two activities, why do you need 6 desktops?

It of course depends from person to person, yet I’ll as it: How many desktops+activities are required for non-fancy usage?

By: FiNeX

FiNeX — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:11:57 +0000

Activities are a good idea, but are not still usable on a real enviroments due to performance, stability and “configuration” issues, moreover activities and multiple monitor scenarios are not yet managed.

I’d like very much to see activities implemented soon.

A big thanks to everyone who is working on KDE! I’ve tried for a couple of days MacOSX, but now I’m using again KDE4: much better