Hallo Martin, Am Mittwoch, 29. Juli 2015 schrieb Martin Schlander:
I think the best way to explain it is that virtual desktops gives you several _identical_ desktops. In KDE4 you have the possibilty to have different wallpapers, desktop folders even diffenrent layouts. The does not look like identical desktops. This might be different with KDE5 Plasma, I have not yet upgraded.
btw: on my desktop Debian 7 "Wheezy", openSUSE 13.2 on my Laptop both KDE4
And activities gives several _different_ desktops (different wallpapers, different desktop widgets, different applications associated and launched automatically, and in the future maybe even different panels for every activity).
I do not see any benefit, there should be more.
Activities make sense if you need different desktops for different workloads. Say when you're at home you like to have some specific wallpaper with some nice puppies on it, and a folderview widget showing some specific folder. Then later you're at work and you want a more professional wallpaper and different folders shown in folderview etc. or you're giving a presentation, or you're doing web development or whatever. Then you just switch to a completely different desktop configured specifically for that specific situation with different wallpaper, different widgets etc. with just one click or keyboard shortcut.
This also I can have with KDE4.
… I'm just saying in KDE4 to give the perception of different wallpapers for each virtual desktop, the activity technology was actually what was technically used beneath the surface. This might be possible, I do not know much about the techniques used in KDE[45]
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