On 9/22/2010 12:23 AM, Will Stephenson wrote:
This kind of organized working is what the ongoing Activities work in KDE aims to support. It's an elaboration of the classification possible using virtual desktops by putting windows on them. Activities includes the desktop furniture in the context - allowing, for example, a different folder to provide the desktop icons on each activity, or a different set of app menus on the panel. They break the conventional limitations of virtual desktops, by allowing windows to be members of >1 Activity.
In the near future Activity hints will be available to applications so they can adapt to the context they are running in, eg "KMail helps me focus by only showing the mail folders relevant to the Acme project while I am using the Acme activity" or "Kopete sets my work IM account Away when I switch to my Social activity".
The challenge is to make this available so that it is comprehensible and useful to those without a scientist's ingrained love of order - we've already all had the "I clicked a button and all my programs went away" response to virtual desktops from new users.
I hope that's interesting
Will
I would say the Challenge is more to get activities to behave by themselves and possibly develop some useful widgets (its largely a wasteland of mostly useless toys) before giving activities control over normal applications. -- _____________________________________ At one time I had a Real Sig. Its been downsized. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org