On January 27, 2010 08:57:18 Marco Martin wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 January 2010, Aaron Seigo wrote:
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> > "make it activity-centric instead of containment-centric"
> > 
> > Activity is a user interface word and a concept of plasma-desktop /
> > plasma-netbook / etc. Containment is the libplasma API :)
> 
> well, talking about it at campkde the doubt really surfaced was:
> is really a good thing to mantain the concept of one activity=one
> contaiment?
> 
> problem could be for instance with multi monitor. if an activity is what
> i'm doing now, i am doing it on both monitor (depends also what the
> workflow is could be the case or not)
> 
> perhaps the pervirtualdesktopviews madness could also be mapped to -one-
> activity
> 

yeah... see... I kinda abused the word again.
in my mind, an Activity is an abstract concept, it's more like.. everything 
you're using to do a particular task. and we make it concrete (therefore 
easier for users to get a handle on) by tying it to a containment (or set of 
containments if you have >1 screen).

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