hi... back when we started the path towards plasma i said that we needed to slowly evolve the desktop beyond the desktop folder with icons littered on the desktop.
now we have activities, kick-ass containments like search and launch and grouping desktop. it is time to go to that next step and move people away from the old ways. i was at a friend's house last night where a bunch of people gathered to hang out, chat, play games, etc. there was a desktop system there running plasma desktop with the search and launch containment and a gorgeous translucent panel couresty of kwin. i saw it and hardly recognized it: it looked new, amazing, the next thing. it looked amazing. so, here's my suggestion for 4.7: let's try something big and new. let's make that Big Move and step away from ~/Desktop. my proposal is this: * by default, Search and Launch on the desktop * an icon in this S&L that takes you to your desktop folder .. in a file manager. * a new panel layout (TBD: let's work on this together!) * improve the tasks widget to have some of the nice features of widgets like "smooth tasks" with the mouse over highlights * an "activities" widget (i'll hapilly write it) that sits next to the app launcher and when clicked brings up the actvities manager * an activities switcher as a kwin effect (!) * have all activities avaiable in kactivitmanagerd, even if they are "stopped" in plasma-desktop thoughts? -- 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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