On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Bob S<911@sanctum.com> wrote:
Sven,
I wish you would stop using that word "whine". It is very offensive to tell someone they are "whining" when all they really want is a viable explanation. You seem to think that any question asked or explanation requested is a "whine". Not so. I don't believe that you are a native English speaker and maybe therein lies the problem.
I still don't see any advantage of activities over virtual desktops. Perhaps I am not explaining myself well enough, or you may not. Maybe someday I will see it, but not yet.
Bob S -- I don't think it is that there is an "advantage of activities over virtual desktops" -- that is not the point. In KDE4 virtual desktops were created differently. And one of the things that the devs tried to do was to incorporate the new widgets/plasmoids motif into virtual desktops. So -- "activities" were conceived as a way to leverage plamoid widgets into virtual desktops. Initially you apparently could not do diff wallpaper on each virtual desktop. Now, activities allows you to do that. So -- in the case of your desired feature (diff wallpaper on each desktop) there is no real advantage to activities -- you can get what you want, but perhaps it takes a couple more steps. But activities ALSO do other things (were designed to do so) and the wallpaper thing was a secondary feature. Perhaps backsliding a bit, from the perspective of wallpaper/virtual desktops (in that it is marginally more clumsy to setup) but ... also a very different feature set than what KDE 3.5 virtual desktops had. You don't like it -- or see it's value -- that is clear. But you get what you say you want, and you won't use the other aspects of the feature that you don't appreciate -- so why not just drop the barrage of criticism and just ... use what you want and ignore the rest? Peter -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org