A Sábado 16 Junho 2012 14:21:39 Marco Martin escreveu: > On Saturday 16 June 2012, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One of the output of the KDE Vision sprint is a document I started to > > write > > to define activities and how they relate to virtual desktops. You can find > > it here: > > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Workspace_Sprint/ActivitiesAndVirtualDeskt > > ops > > This comes out of probably some views that are being adjusted over time: > the old idea was to keep activities and virtual desktops as orhogonal > functions: > activities is about separing tasks by well.. activity, while virtual > desktops becomes intended as a purely spatial organization of windows (just > poor man multimonitor) Just my 2 cents, but I think that the virtual desktops would make more sense as a complement to activities than they do simply being orthogonal. A good comparison, just to illustrate my point, could be made between activities/desktops and KDevelop: the activity would be like a KDevelop session, as they are both intended for working with one or more correlated tasks; and the desktop would be like a KDevelop working set, as they both separate different subtasks of a same task.
> > now, since virtual desktops can also be used as a (very, very) primitive > version of activities (separing windows as activities) are very often seen > as overlapping concepts, therefore confusing. > > I would like to keep this definition of orthogonality between activities and > virtual desktops in the definition, describing use cases for > a) separation by activity > b) spatial organization > then describe how b) is coveed by activities. > If a) is something that should stay in the long years to come, is an open > question. > > I clearly see (and clearly came out from the Tree game) that in the end in > the practical use VDs and Activities often end up overlapping. > Also virtual desktops are so limited by x11 and netwm tecnicalities that may > become a slowly fading away legacy. > > > If you are involved in activities can you review it? If it makes sense > > I'll > > move it to /Plasma/ActivitiesAndVirtualDesktops and link to it from > > /Plasma. > > I think it still needs a bit of work before, but should definitely end up > there in the end. > > Cheers, > Marco Martin > _______________________________________________ > 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
