I apologize. Still getting used to mailing lists.
On 2/11/09, Lubos Lunak <l.lu...@suse.cz> wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
