[opensuse] Re: [opensuse-kde] Who likes to use KDE activities?
On Saturday 06 Aug 2011 00:56:38 Malte Gell wrote:
Is there someone who likes the concept of KDE activities? I´m not sure yet, whether I really find it useful or not. I play with it and I find it a nice extension to the virtual desktop concept, but I still don´t know if I really will use it regularly.
Malte I like the idea of Activities but I couldn't find a real use for them until now but i can't use the way it makes sense to me. Its been discussed on another thread but i'll copy my thoughts here. I have 3 activities namely work, personal and mailing lists each using different email addresses. At the moment i've separated them by creating 3 KDE users so i have to login and out of each of them to use each activity. I saw a possibility of activities allowing me to have only one KDE login and 3 separate activities. Within each activity i'd have an instance of kontact/kmail configured for the correct email addresses/contacts etc so it was just a matter of changing activity instead of logging in and out a few times. As each activitiry can't have separate instances of programs each with their own configuration I don't really see its useful to me without being overkill.
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On 8/10/2011 11:40 PM, ianseeks wrote:
On Saturday 06 Aug 2011 00:56:38 Malte Gell wrote:
Is there someone who likes the concept of KDE activities? I�m not sure yet, whether I really find it useful or not. I play with it and I find it a nice extension to the virtual desktop concept, but I still don�t know if I really will use it regularly.
Malte I like the idea of Activities but I couldn't find a real use for them until now but i can't use the way it makes sense to me. Its been discussed on another thread but i'll copy my thoughts here.
All I have found them useful for is different wallpaper on different desktops. And I would have been happy if I could have avoided them for that as well. Since I make no use if widgets, (too unreliable, unstable, and limited), activities make no sense at all to me, since they are mostly used to organize sets of widgets. Hopelessly old school perhaps, but multiple desktops fill the same need and used to be all you would need for this. With the current trend in KDE4 being to downplay activities, it seems the developers have finally realized this was a pretty worthless idea, and maybe they will let it die the death it so justly deserves. -- _____________________________________ ---This space for rent--- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
John Andersen said the following on 08/11/2011 01:51 PM:
Since I make no use if widgets, (too unreliable, unstable, and limited),
What! None at all? You don't have a panel at the bottom (or top or side) of the screen, don't have a (kickoff) menu, clock, pager or switching between virtual desktops, system tray? Aren't all those 'widgets'? I can only manipulate them if I 'unlock widgets' and the left-click on the screen away from a window or at the right of the panel lets me add things like that once I select "add widgets", so these must be widgets. The ones I use, the panel, the clock, clipboard, the pager, the menu, the systray, the task manager, the mixer, the trash-can - they are all quite stable and reliable. Perhaps you cold tell us which ones you use that are unstable and unreliable. Perhaps you could tell us how you start processes without a menu, how you manage your virtual desktops without a pager. All those are widgets that I don't think I could do without. They are also the widgets in would want available in any and all Activities, pretty much the only ones except for a folder view :-) -- quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 08/11/2011 03:59 PM, Anton Aylward pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
John Andersen said the following on 08/11/2011 01:51 PM:
Since I make no use if widgets, (too unreliable, unstable, and limited),
What! None at all? You don't have a panel at the bottom (or top or side) of the screen, don't have a (kickoff) menu, clock, pager or switching between virtual desktops, system tray?
Aren't all those 'widgets'?
What were they called in KDE2 days?
I can only manipulate them if I 'unlock widgets' and the left-click on the screen away from a window or at the right of the panel lets me add things like that once I select "add widgets", so these must be widgets.
The ones I use, the panel, the clock, clipboard, the pager, the menu, the systray, the task manager, the mixer, the trash-can - they are all quite stable and reliable.
Perhaps you could tell us which ones you use that are unstable and unreliable.
All of them unless you keep them in jail, Er i mean locked.
Perhaps you could tell us how you start processes without a menu, how you manage your virtual desktops without a pager. All those are widgets that I don't think I could do without. They are also the widgets in would want available in any and all Activities, pretty much the only ones except for a folder view :-)
I still prefer call them icons, a pictorial on the "desktop" used to launch an application. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Ken Schneider - openSUSE said the following on 08/11/2011 04:45 PM:
Perhaps you could tell us how you start processes without a menu, how you manage your virtual desktops without a pager. All those are widgets that I don't think I could do without. They are also the widgets in would want available in any and all Activities, pretty much the only ones except for a folder view :-)
I still prefer call them icons, a pictorial on the "desktop" used to launch an application.
Ah. I might wonder how they got there, but perhaps I should be more concerned about how, without a kickoff menu or similar, you can start up any OTHER program? -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like pears. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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