On 01/16/2016 11:11 AM, John Andersen wrote:
I currently use exactly one activity, and then I use different desktops within that single activity. In KDE4, you could have different wallpaper on each desktop, but the programmers forgot how to do this and stripped out this capability in their relentless bid to force activities down our throats. I suspect future versions of KDE will simply get rid of multiple desktops all together. Now that, after 20 years, these are available in Windows 10 so KDE will have to drop them.
I like desktops with different wallpaper, but I've also got a valid use case. I support a group of researchers who use openSUSE for computational science and signal processing. They will create 20 desktops with different processing scenarios and dance around between them as needed. They use the different wallpapers as a navigation aid to help their awareness of where they are in their multiple desktop topography. As an aside, I was also able to wean them from Matlab dependency over the past few years. We're exclusively using Scientific Python now, and loving it. FWIW, Windows is not an option for serious technical work, as if I had to say it here. Windows will need MUCH more than multiple desktops to become even marginally useful. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org