Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1558 mails)

[John Andersen <jsamyth@xxxxxxxxx>]

Scott Newton wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:22:01 John Andersen wrote:
> > Any way to just get rid of this concept of Activities all together?
> > It was un-needed, a duplication of what already existed and totally
> > confusing.
> >
> > What were development resources wasted on this?  Were the developers
> > totally unaware of multiple virtual desktops which has been in every
> > version of Suse since 6?  Its announced like its a totally new invention
> > that nobody has ever seen before!
> >
> > Why did they add this?  Can't they explain where they were going with it
> > and what it is expected to do?  They must have had something in mind
> > when they spent all this time to get it working?
> >
> > I have yet to see a coherent explanation of this feature.
>
> This is my understanding. Say you work on development three days a week and 
> documentation on two days a week. For each you want a different setup on your 
> desktop (icons etc). You setup two activities (which might span multiple 
> desktops) and then to swap between the two you just pull in the activity you 
> require. 
>
> Hope this helps.

A nice explanation, but it doesn't work that way.

Fire up some tasks.  Say your programming IDE, and a command window
and a test data set in Dolphin on another desktop.

Now Switch Activities.   Lo and behold, the same stuff is there.

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