On Tuesday 10 of February 2009, Jud Craft wrote: > It doesn't help that the transitioning-between-Activities bears little > distinction from transitioning between workspaces/virtual desktops. > It's sometimes hard for the user to figure out exactly what the big > deal is. Personally, I rationalize it myself this way: > > --Virtual desktops are like having a really huge desk in your office. > There's plenty of room for stuff, but you have to reach around to get > to any of it. > > --Plasma Activities are like having _different_ desks in your office. > For example, one for essay writing, one for your reading, and one for > communication (memos, letters, in and out boxes). > > The idea of "having more than one desk VS having a huge desk" is > immediately apparent to any office and home user;
I guess I'm not one of those then, as I'm at a loss here. Virtual desktops are technically neither of the two ways above, and they can be perceived as either depending on what metaphor one chooses to use. I also don't quite follow on the rest of the mail, possibly because I still haven't found out what makes the activities different from virtual desktops and the Plasma FAQ hasn't helped me there either. The way I see it activities are virtual desktops for plasmoids done independently from virtual desktops and I don't see why it couldn't be simply done directly as virtual desktops. It's quite normal for people to have desktop 1 named e.g. as "Work", 2 as "Web", 3 as "Mail" and 4 as "Custom". Looking at the rest of the thread, I don't think it makes sense to discuss this before first knowing what the activities are actually supposed to be. PS: Some mails in this thread are a pain to read. Could you please learn to reply and quote properly and not just have a huge quotation and one added line somewhere in it? Thanks. -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lu...@suse.cz , l.lu...@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 972 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
