On Sat, 06 Aug 2011 09:19:59 +0530, sc wrote:

On Friday, August 05, 2011 17:56:38 Malte Gell wrote:

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Is there someone who likes the concept of KDE activities? I´m not sure yet, whether I really find it useful or not. I play with it and I find it a nice extension to the virtual desktop concept, but I still don´t know if I really will use it regularly.

activities scare me

there's a key chord you can hit that will change activities -- i don't know what it is, but i have on more than one occasion hit it by accident when i was going for alt-tab or ctrl-tab --

that key combination is <windows meta key><tab>. you should be able to hit it again, repeatedly if necessary, to go back to the activity you came from. i usually assign middle-mouse-click on the desktop to switch activities (in desktop settings). clicking with the middle button then shows all enabled activities to choose from.

when in the wrong activity none of my desktops look right, none of my desktop icons are visible and all running applications are disappeared

the first time this happened i was scared something profoundly bad had happened, with no clue exactly what had happened

i run without a panel, no activity switcher widget, and the only way i've found so far to get back to reality is to unlock widgets on whatever desktop i'm on, add an activity switcher widget, and click on different activities til i find the real one -- this process takes time, and makes me mad and scared at the same time

no fan of activities here,

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On Friday, August 05, 2011 23:00:55 phanisvara das wrote:

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there's a key chord you can hit that will change activities -- i don't know what it is, but i have on more than one occasion hit it by accident when i was going for alt-tab or ctrl-tab --

that key combination is <windows meta key><tab>. you should be able to hit it again, repeatedly if necessary, to go back to the activity you came from. i usually assign middle-mouse-click on the desktop to switch activities (in desktop settings). clicking with the middle button then shows all enabled activities to choose from.

woah -- that is good information phanisvara, thank you -- i should have guessed, the silly windows key is right between the alt and the ctrl -- who knew it was mapped to anything!?! (Constant, if you don't have one, it will never bite you -- be grateful) i just tried it (windows-tab) and got a seg fault and a completely black screen -- oh what fun -- i banged it a few more times, waited, and a green striped kde screen came up -- more bangs gave me an activity switcher widget i was able to use to get back to reality as many times as i've looked i've never seen that key-chord documented in the shortcuts setup, or any other settings dialog i don't like activities any more than before, but at least now i know what to avoid to keep them from confounding me phanisvara rulz! sc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

On Friday, August 05, 2011, Martin Schlander wrote:

Lørdag den 6. august 2011 00:56:38 skrev Malte Gell:

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Is there someone who likes the concept of KDE activities? I´m not sure yet, whether I really find it useful or not. I play with it and I find it a nice extension to the virtual desktop concept, but I still don´t know if I really will use it regularly.

If I could have different panels on different activities I think I'd use it a little bit.

You have hit the nail on the head. The only plasmoids that I use are panels. (If I could find a plasmoid that I could configure to replace gkrellm I would use it, so far no luck) Activities started, in my view, as a way to have access to multiple sets of widgets. Something that I have no use for. It crashed alot and configurations were unstable. Finally w/ 4.6 and 4.7 they are actually useful and stable. I kind of like having 3 "groups" of 4 virtual desktops, I would never use 12 Virtual desktops without this kind of grouping. As activities become more independent I believe they will become more usefull to me. see ya dh -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

Am 06.08.2011 15:46, schrieb Anton Aylward:

What can I do with activities that I can't with virtual desktops?

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Rajko M. said the following on 08/10/2011 04:34 PM:

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Oh, I see the note about different widgets, but I can't see how that is of value to me.

If you don't see use for widgets, then you don't need activities, just as someone using desktop in Windows fashion doesn't need virtual desktops.

I use widgets - many of them. But you miss my point. I said DIFFERENT widgets. The widget I use are the ones that are of use to me. These are tools not toys. In a different activity I'd be using those same widgets. -- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org