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Re: [opensuse-kde] What Activities you've defied?
- From: kanenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2011 12:24:30 -1000
- Message-id: <201110081224.30468.kanenas@hawaii.rr.com>
On Saturday 08 October 2011 06:52:23 am dh wrote:
self control, but it's a lost cause:) why are you complicating things when
there is simply no need to?
please kde4 people, take a good hard look at the crap you added just for the
sake of adding it, PLEASE take the hard step to get rid of the nosense and
PLEASE simplify the system
..........
case in point:
.....
just curious: why does the previous poster group photo management w. graphic
design, multimedia w. virtualization and office work with web work? if i had
the same things to work on, i would have one desktop for photo management,
one desktop for graphics, one desktop for virtualization, one desktop for
multimedia, one for office and one desktop for web work.
actually, i really have only 5 desktops total, and, depending on what i want
to work on, i load the particular apps to idividual desktops as i need them.
The usual suspects do end up in the usual spots: email && browser on d1,
multimedia on d2 or d3, office && shtuff on d3 or d4, vm1 on d5, if i need
vm2 it goes on d2 or d3 or d4. that's the basic setup, BUT, it can change
anytime, all i need is just click on an icon:)
The computer does not shut down, sooo, as the work evolves, so does the
content of individual desktops, repetitive work just naturally becomes /
stays repetitive, a new idea just has room to evolve without having to
redefine any activities or plasmoids or whatever... don't know much about
activities, but, it seems ( and every time i tried it has showed me ) that
they are an additional level of abstraction and therefore an additional level
of complication and rigidity that my approach is proud to be devoid of...
more seriously tho: suppose you just found out that avidemux did a particular
video task that you just must have on this multimedia job you are doing,
alas, your activity does not include avidemux in any of your four desktops
dedicated to multimedia, how many clicks, how many windows, how many settings
and pop up windows would it take to put avidemux in just the right desktop at
the right spot ?
please provide a detailed listing, to show us how these things actually get
done.
for me it would be at the most 4 clicks:
1. go to the desired desktop
2. click on avidemux / alt-f2 avidemux
3. move the upper left corner of the avidemux window to where i want.
4. move the lower right corner of the avidemux window to where i want.
then i use what i allready have open in conjuction with the new app and all is
well...
and,
i f i feel creative about web design, i could just right click on my desktop
(ok, its kde3, i admit it), add a new desktop w. 3 more clicks, and continue
with my web design work on a new desktop without disturbing my freshly set
up avidemux....
why would anyone want to mess with this kind of flexibility and artificially
complicate it with additional groupings / separations / rules /restrictions?
d.
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On Saturday, October 08, 2011, Sascha Manns wrote:ok, i been looking at this thread and been biting my lips in hopes of more
Hello Mates,
i've read in Stephan's Thread that some of you already using Activities
in the Desktop.
What Activities you have defined? How do you use it?
As I meantioned previously, I use activities in much the same way I use
virtual desktops. I have 3 defined activities with 4 virtual desktops each.
Keeping track of 12 Virt Desktops would be cumbersome, but grouping them
according to 3 task definitions makes it quite easy.
I have 1 group dedicated to photo management and graphic design. One
activity for virtualuzation and media production and one for general office
work and web programming.
The tipping point for me to start using activities was when I found out
that specific applications could be started when an activity starts.
BTW the only plasmoids are panels or contained in panels (clock, tasks,
launchers)
see ya
dh
self control, but it's a lost cause:) why are you complicating things when
there is simply no need to?
please kde4 people, take a good hard look at the crap you added just for the
sake of adding it, PLEASE take the hard step to get rid of the nosense and
PLEASE simplify the system
..........
case in point:
.....
just curious: why does the previous poster group photo management w. graphic
design, multimedia w. virtualization and office work with web work? if i had
the same things to work on, i would have one desktop for photo management,
one desktop for graphics, one desktop for virtualization, one desktop for
multimedia, one for office and one desktop for web work.
actually, i really have only 5 desktops total, and, depending on what i want
to work on, i load the particular apps to idividual desktops as i need them.
The usual suspects do end up in the usual spots: email && browser on d1,
multimedia on d2 or d3, office && shtuff on d3 or d4, vm1 on d5, if i need
vm2 it goes on d2 or d3 or d4. that's the basic setup, BUT, it can change
anytime, all i need is just click on an icon:)
The computer does not shut down, sooo, as the work evolves, so does the
content of individual desktops, repetitive work just naturally becomes /
stays repetitive, a new idea just has room to evolve without having to
redefine any activities or plasmoids or whatever... don't know much about
activities, but, it seems ( and every time i tried it has showed me ) that
they are an additional level of abstraction and therefore an additional level
of complication and rigidity that my approach is proud to be devoid of...
more seriously tho: suppose you just found out that avidemux did a particular
video task that you just must have on this multimedia job you are doing,
alas, your activity does not include avidemux in any of your four desktops
dedicated to multimedia, how many clicks, how many windows, how many settings
and pop up windows would it take to put avidemux in just the right desktop at
the right spot ?
please provide a detailed listing, to show us how these things actually get
done.
for me it would be at the most 4 clicks:
1. go to the desired desktop
2. click on avidemux / alt-f2 avidemux
3. move the upper left corner of the avidemux window to where i want.
4. move the lower right corner of the avidemux window to where i want.
then i use what i allready have open in conjuction with the new app and all is
well...
and,
i f i feel creative about web design, i could just right click on my desktop
(ok, its kde3, i admit it), add a new desktop w. 3 more clicks, and continue
with my web design work on a new desktop without disturbing my freshly set
up avidemux....
why would anyone want to mess with this kind of flexibility and artificially
complicate it with additional groupings / separations / rules /restrictions?
d.
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