----- Ursprüngliche Mitteilung ----- > A Quinta, 3 de Março de 2011 06:36:02 Aaron J. Seigo você escreveu: > > On Friday, February 25, 2011, Hans Chen wrote: > > > - I see virtual desktops (VDs) as subordinate to activities > > > > this is incorrect. disabuse yourself of this notion. > > > > > , i.e., each activity should have its own set of virtual desktops. > > > Currently VDs are not activity aware. > > > > i don't particularly see the benefit of this. it is in theory possible > > (kwin is already aware of activities), but unless there is significant > > benefit to such a thing, it will be very complex to add to the > > configuration GUI. > > > > > - There is an option to kind of merge activities and virtual desktops > > > > no, there isn't. > > > > > ("Different widgets for each desktop"). I know that it was added due > > > to popular demand, but now that activities also manage windows I > > > don't > > > > > > think it is needed anymore. (Some users are not going to like this, I > > > know.) > > > > yes, like the people we implemented that feature for in the first > > place: people who want different wallpapers and widgets on each > > desktop. > > > > virtual desktops and activities are actually, not just in theory but > > actually, orthogonal. we know this from usage patterns of real live > > users. > :) > > I catualy think that the activities change UI should ilustrate exactly > that; the ortogonal nature of them :) > we would show stacks of activities showing all their VD's > the vd's would be aligned horozontaly....(small thumbnails of them) > and the activities would be on the verical axis.... yes Ortogonal :D For technical reasons we cannot provide (live) thumbnails for not active activities. Personally I doubt you would recognize anything on the thumbnails. I find it difficult to recognize the windows in desktop grid and scaling everything down further does not improve the situation ;-) > > in this UI one should be able to create more Vd's for an activitie or > create more activities. since their creation is show in ortogonal > places it will help people wraping their brains around the concept. As mentioned in my other reply to the thread: kwin cannot support different number of desktops for different activities. I do not see any realistic chance that we change that with our current manpower for the next 12 months and in a year I expect us to only work on pushing our stack to Wayland (probably a task for another 12 to 24 months).
Cheers Martin > > The point of entery tor this feature showd in a minimised form alow to > switch activities on one click. > > > -- > oxygen guy, "I make the pretty pictures" > _______________________________________________ > 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