On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:25:51 David C. Rankin wrote:
[...] I'm sure they serve some purpose for somebody, but I have never had a problem opening the app I wanted to use, managing its window(s) when it was open, and being smart enough to close it when I was finished.
From what I can tell all that "Activities" are supposed to do for you is open up a regularly used set of apps all at once instead of you clicking the icon too start each app. I don't see the value in it. I mean what -- you can manage at most ~10 open apps and open windows at a time before you start wearing out the Alt+Tab keys, right? Where's the benefit in having entire sets of apps configured to open at once that you then have to manage and add apps to the set and remove apps from the set as apps change, are replaced, etc?
Not so much apps as plasma widgets. With virtual desktops the plasma widgets are repeated on each desktop. With activities you can have different sets of plasma widgets for different tasks - which would be OK if there were that many useful plasma widgets around...and if you preferred using them to windowed apps...and if you could get to them without having to move /minimise other windows (which you can't because they're effectively part of the desktop background and can't be on top of other windows...) It probably "seemed like a good idea at the time" but it is too much like a solution in search of a problem. That is one of the challenges for programmers - being innovative in finding solutions to real problems, not simply changing a paradigm for the sake of change itself. -- =================================================== Rodney Baker VK5ZTV rodney.baker@iinet.net.au =================================================== -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org