On Thursday 06 Oct 2011 11:56:56 Stephan Kulow wrote:
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?
This is an oversimplified choice, since you can, if you want, use virtual desktops inside Activities. My opinion (slightly subject to what you actually feel are wrong with activities, but going with the "are annoying" you posted later in the thread) is that we should not go configuring upstream's flagship features out because Statler and Waldorf find them annoying. 1) That way lies stagnation and death - you might as well stop shipping new versions of KDE after 4.4, or fork the damn thing. 2) This sends a terrible message to upstream that we just consider their features unfixably broken, when instead we should be actively working with them to communicate problems and suggest fixes. 3) Upstream app authors will be coding against new features and we will get bug reports that people can't find the Activities switcher when they try to use apps which use Activities. Don't expect them to code their apps to hide Activity features when the panel does not contain an activity switcher either. For an example, see the Activity-specific power management options mentioned in this screencast: http://drfav.wordpress.com/2011/10/04/power-management-a- new-screencast/ 4) Extra overhead 1: we'll have to document how we are changing upstream's defaults 5) Extra overhead 2: The KDE:Release:* projects, which stick to upstream defaults, will have to take care that they don't inadvertently ship our changes. So I think we should identify what's wrong with Activities and see what is needed to make them work first. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Team SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kde+owner@opensuse.org