wonko at wonkology
Dec 27, 2010, 3:08 PM
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Re: Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5
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Alan McKinnon wrote:
> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alex
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> Schuster did opine thusly:
> > Alan McKinnon writes:
> > > Activities. wtf are those?
> >
> > I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and probably
> > never will. But I'm not the average user. I have six virtual desktops
> > (current screenshots are at
> > http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2010-11-11/ ), each one has its
> > purpose. For each window you can define the desktop it will run on.
> > You change the desktop, and you get new windows displayed, while the
> > plasmoids stay the same.
> >
> > With activities it's the other way around. You switch the activity, and
> > the windows stay the same, but you get different plasmoids.
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> That's a decent explanation, thanks a lot. I can see how some folks would
> like that and why it's been coded.
In case you're still interested, this blog entry has some more information
on activities:
http://chani.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/activity-oriented-vs-application-oriented-workspaces/
It also covers differences in Gnome's and KDE's approach to this activity stuff.
Wonko
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