On July 14, 2010, todd rme wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <ase...@kde.org> wrote: > >> and this must be done in 4.5, > > > > only if it can be done in a way that is sensible. it won't be able to be > > an optional thing because we can't introduce new strings in the 4.5 > > branch, so no configuration UI is possible. so if it is added, it needs > > to absolutely work because it will not only be the default ... it won't > > be able to be turned off. > > > > that said, i think it may make work well since it's an active user > > selection to associate the window with the activity, and the window > > won't be shown when a different activity is shown. > > > > what will likely end up becoming a requirement, however, is a way to show > > windows in other activities so that a person may find "that krita window > > i had open ..." without switching to every activity manually. that > > sounds a bit more like something for 4.6, though. > > I know that hidden options are highly frowned upon, and rightly so, > but this seems like one of the very rare situations where it might be > considered appropriate. It would basically be an experimental option > that will be in a configuration dialog in the next KDE release. The
or, it might not be configurable if it works well enough ... but i agree that this could be a worthwhile exception to the rule for the reasons you provided. > route I don't know whether it would better to have it enabled or > disabled by default, though. my gut says "enabled by default" for the reasons i outlined in my previous email. we could provide a javascript snippet that turns it off though. thought: providing a list of javascript templates would be really cool in the desktop console. *ponders* -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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