On Fri, 31 Jul 2015 04:56:56 +0200
Stefan Bruens
On Thursday 30 July 2015 17:47:52 Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 07/30/2015 05:10 PM, Rick Chung wrote:
On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 08:27:58 PM Hans de Faber wrote:
Recently i took a look at tumbleweed and milestone 42.1. I discovered that all virtual desktops are always identical.
Sadly, It is a missing feature on Plasma 5
This is a shame. I provide openSuSE/KDE desktops for a group of scientists and engineers involved with data processing. They have multiple virtual desktops going with different processing runs in each. One woman likes to process with 20 desktops and she dances around them like a whirling dervish, using the different wallpapers as a clue to where she is. She will be less productive without this important feedback.
Thats kind of usage is exactly what activities are meant for.
Virtual desktops are orthogonal to activies, although virtual desktops have been abused for this kind of usage.
Virtual desktops provide exactly one thing, more space, nothing else.
There is one thing current activities lack, an advanced/configurable switcher/overview, but thats it.
Trouble is, it's that "one thing" that stopped me using it after I set up a test user with 8 "activities" replacing my 8 "desktops". It's just too much of a bind switching from one activity to another. When you have that many(?) activities, the panel that pops up on Plasma5 often requires scrolling down to reach the one you want. Why is so much waste space allocated to each activity? -- Graham Davis, Bracknell, Berks. openSUSE 13.2 (64-bit); KDE 4.14.9; AMD Phenom II X2 550 Processor; Kernel: 4.1.3; Video: nVidia GeForce 210 (using nouveau driver); Sound: ATI SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org