Clayton wrote:
All I did to achieve this was (note this is the latest Factory 4.3 on 11.1 x64): - Click the Cashew or whatever you want to call it up in the top right - Click Configure Plasma Workspace - Click the check box next to Different activity for each desktop - Set up and use each Desktop as normal.
As simple as all this, eh? :-)
And all we had to do in KDE 3 was select a different wallpaper for each desktop..... Oh gosh, how *boring* was THAT? :-D .
OK, I'll first watch my Harry Potter film (seriously, no joke) and then go and try out this "simpler" method of assigning-a-different-wallpaper-to-a-Desktop trick :-) .
Thanks for the above.
As simple as setting a check box once... yah, that is pretty hard to do... I mean it's 3 clicks... and then all you need to do is select a wallpaper for each desktop like in KDE3.
C.
Ummmm... while my first impression was, "It's brilliant!", and, certainly, one can get to the situation one enjoyed in KDE3 with each desktop having its own wallpaper but the process one has to take to get there is NOT brilliant. After doing what you mention above, one then has to go thru the task of "setting up", as you put it, each desktop - in my case I have 6 so I had to go thru 6 setups: do what you mention above then for each desktop select Desktop Configuration, select a wallpaper *AND*, before all this will work, one has to also select the Folder View for the desktop. My heart goes out to those who use more than the default 4 desktops :'( . One thing: I dislike having my desktop space unnecessarily taken up by the taskbar/taskmanager/whatetever so I always have it hidden (been doing this since 2000 with XP). Unless I am not doing the right thing, I cannot have this option "stick" after I configure it. The taskbar/taskmanager always comes back as VISIBLE when I reboot the system. One more thing: after I configure my 6 desktops to look like KDE3, how do I get back to the default installation in 4.3? :-) . I don't want to lose these settings - but would want to toggle between the 4.3 and the 3.5 look. Not possible? Nevertheless, I see that there is potential here. When the bugs are eradicated out of KDE4.3 it just might become a usable DE. BC -- Great Man reaches complete understanding of the main issues; Petty Man reaches complete understanding of the minute details." Confucius -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org