Marc Chamberlin said the following on 02/21/2010 07:22 PM:
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With reference to that same "plasmoid" button, the Zoom Out is also daunting and I don't fully comprehend it yet. The documentation tells me that it shows me "Activities" Ok.. whatever but to me they look like miniature representations of my various desktops.
OK, stop there. An Activity is NOT a Desktop. I have one-and-only-one Activity with six desktops on it. I'm sure someone can explain why there is the capability for many Activities. To me they seem like a very high level separation of work. I separate work with desktops - mail, web, files, terminal - but perhaps the developers were doing things like A1: [ mail, web, files, terminal ] A2: [ editing, compiling testing of KDE games, one desktop for each of various tasks ] A3: [ editing, compiling testing of KDE editors ] But then again not. Why some of us can do this with just desktops and windows and they need Activities ... or perhaps the reasoning is quite different. But an Activity seems a collection of Desktops. They seemed to associate a background image with each Activity rather than with each desktop. One reason I speculated like the above. If anyone has a better explanation I'd love to hear it. I've found no reason for multiple activities when I can have multiple desktops. But that's me.
Sometimes, and again I do not understand the context of what drives this, a menu also pops up in this "zoom" display and it has an additional item that I had not previously discovered - "Add Activity"
Given that you have the capability for "Activities", zooming back to overview them and zooming in to one, makes sense. Being able to create more makes sense.
[...] In fooling around I decided to "Add Activity" and now I got a bunch of these "Activities"/"Desktops" and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get rid of the ones I created! Only one of them (which I don't want to delete) has a big red X on its tab so I am stuck!
BTDT. Somehow found out how to delete it and never went there again :-)
When I zoom in on one of the "Activities"/"Desktops" i.e. return to my normal world, I now find that my whole world of desktops has changed!
Of course! Its actually a different Activity. Its a shame you can't name them and switch them as easily as Desktops.
Some of the new desktops are now available and some are apparently inaccessible. I have chosen to have just four desktops but I got no idea as to how to assign one of the "Activities"/"Desktops" to a particular desktop.
Nonononon! It doesn't work like that. I'm sure it _could_, but its not programmed that way. You're thinking of Activities as being like Desktops. where you can drag or move a windows between desktops. They're not. They are containers for desktops. But you can't move desktops between them. They are deep silos with a set of desktops in them. Its like a whole new ... well not virtual machine, not virtual login, but sort of. Sort of. Personally I have no use Activities. You find them confusing; I find them irrelevant. If they went away neither of us would miss them. Perhaps they should be relegated to a dynamically loadable module of some kind, like all that stuff in Compiz. If you don't want it you don't enable it. -- Ideology, politics and journalism, which luxuriate in failure, are impotent in the face of hope and joy. -- P. J. O'Rourke -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org