Torsdag den 6. oktober 2011 11:56:56 skrev Stephan Kulow:
KDE 4.7's plasma is now centered around activities - breaking once more the way many of us work with KDE.
Many on IRC voiced the oppinion that the activity manager shouldn't be part of the default plasma - including me.
But this would be a major divergence with upstream's default, so I would like to discuss more widely first. What's your oppinion?
Do you prefer virtual desktops or plasma activities?
It's a tough call. Ol' time Linux users will obviously prefer virtual desktops because that's what they know and have adapted to. Enthusiasts will like the activities because it's new and exiting and a bit more powerful and flexible than virtual desktops. As for the vast majority of casual users, I think they won't use neither activities nor virtual desktops - they'll just use one single desktop/activity all the time like they're used to on other platforms. It's also possible to do some form of compromise. E.g. have virtual desktops with different widgets (acitivity) per desktop as the default and remove the activity manager. Or to have two or four virtual desktops by default _and_ the activities manager too at the same time. Conclusion: My vote is to keep the activity manager, BUT: * Increase the default number of virtual desktops to 2 or 4 (if 2, then tell the pager to use 2 rows, to make the pager narrower) * Add a folderview widget showing ~/Desktop to the "Desktop" acitivity That way everyone should be pretty happy. Upstream get to strut their exiting new stuff and users get a fairly familiar and recognizable experience. I did some brief testing, and afaict virtual desktops and activities coexist quite well. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org