Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-20 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Saturday, May 18, 2013 11:47:11 Djuro Drljaca wrote: > If we are just talking about "linear" snapshots then this might not be too > difficult to manage in your head, but having "branching" snapshots starts > to complicate things. Please, no snapshots. At all. In any form. To be useful to most

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-18 Thread Djuro Drljaca
Hello, > Restoring to one snapshot is not implementation-wise different from the > possibility to have multiple snapshots :) If we are just talking about "linear" snapshots then this might not be too difficult to manage in your head, but having "branching" snapshots starts to complicate things.

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-18 Thread Ivan Čukić
On Saturday, 18. May 2013. 11.25.50 Djuro Drljaca wrote: > Hello, > > @Ivan: no, you are wrong :P Well, not by far :) > Another use case for what I suggested is this: > 1) you create an activity and configure it to what you want its "default" > state (or lets call it "snapshot") to look like > 2

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-18 Thread Djuro Drljaca
Hello, @Ivan: no, you are wrong :P What I was thinking of is something like this: 1) you create an activity and configure it to what you want its "default" state (or lets call it "snapshot") to look like 2) you make a snapshot 3) you do some "work" and decide to clone/copy/move the current state

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-18 Thread Ivan Čukić
> > Maybe there could even be a feature to make a "snapshot" of > > the current activity state and then another feature to restore that > > snapshot. > > that is (essentially) what stop/start does. I guess Djuro thought about creating multiple snapshots - to restore them later. The only thing

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-16 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Thursday 16 May 2013 14:01:17 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:01:10 Kevin Ottens wrote: > > Only the "emptying" part would be in this magical first activity > > (otherwise > > as you point out it is exactly duplicate). That's the only thing which > > makes me uneasy with the

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:01:10 Kevin Ottens wrote: > Only the "emptying" part would be in this magical first activity (otherwise > as you point out it is exactly duplicate). That's the only thing which > makes me uneasy with the idea in its current state: having a magical first > activity which

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, May 16, 2013 11:50:06 Djuro Drljaca wrote: > maybe a small modification to the idea. Instead of a special activity all > of them could support this feature to copy/move/clone/whatever-you-call-it > or at least to have the ability to clone an activity and also to > clear/clean it. yes,

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-16 Thread Djuro Drljaca
Hello, maybe a small modification to the idea. Instead of a special activity all of them could support this feature to copy/move/clone/whatever-you-call-it or at least to have the ability to clone an activity and also to clear/clean it. Maybe there could even be a feature to make a "snapshot" of t

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-16 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Thursday 16 May 2013 10:40:09 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 16:19:07 Kevin Ottens wrote: > > On Wednesday 15 May 2013 15:31:16 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > > Welcome is nice, but again, not a real activity (link to Welcome and > > > similar). > > > > Yeah, I guess it comes from

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 16:45:51 Martin Graesslin wrote: > On Wednesday 15 May 2013 16:21:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 15:31:16 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > > Welcome is nice, but again, not a real activity (link to Welcome and > > > similar). > > > > If we want a meanging

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-16 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 16:19:07 Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Wednesday 15 May 2013 15:31:16 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > Welcome is nice, but again, not a real activity (link to Welcome and > > similar). > > Yeah, I guess it comes from some of the adjustments I have in mind for the > overall activity w

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Ivan Čukić
Kevin> Ahem... Sorry for the ramblings. :-) No need to apologize, sidetracking this theme to discuss nice things is not a crime :) I totally agree with the workflow you'd like to have (I'd like it as well :) ) Aaron> If we want a meangingful default name At this time, until somebody brave enou

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Martin Graesslin
On Wednesday 15 May 2013 16:21:28 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 15:31:16 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > Welcome is nice, but again, not a real activity (link to Welcome and > > similar). > > If we want a meangingful default name, then I think we have to ask the user > ... which bring

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 15:31:16 Ivan Čukić wrote: > Welcome is nice, but again, not a real activity (link to Welcome and > similar). If we want a meangingful default name, then I think we have to ask the user ... which brings us back to how nice it would be to have a first-run welcome app

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Wednesday 15 May 2013 15:31:16 Ivan Čukić wrote: > Welcome is nice, but again, not a real activity (link to Welcome and > similar). Yeah, I guess it comes from some of the adjustments I have in mind for the overall activity workflow. I'd like a default activity which is the one I get when I l

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Ivan Čukić
Welcome is nice, but again, not a real activity (link to Welcome and similar). Cheerio On 15 May 2013 11:49, Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Wednesday 15 May 2013 10:54:15 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 09:59:40 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > > The default name for the default activity

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Wednesday 15 May 2013 10:54:15 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 09:59:40 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > The default name for the default activity 'Desktop' is causing a few > > problems. > > glad these are the kinds of problems we face these days :) > > hm.. > > Main Activity > Ho

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Martin Klapetek
On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 10:54 AM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 09:59:40 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > The default name for the default activity 'Desktop' is causing a few > > problems. > > glad these are the kinds of problems we face these days :) > > hm.. > > Main Activity > Hom

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Ivan Čukić
> glad these are the kinds of problems we face these days :) +10 > Main Activity Thinking this would be better than the rest. (link to home could also be expected to create a symlink) Ch! ___ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 09:59:40 Ivan Čukić wrote: > The default name for the default activity 'Desktop' is causing a few > problems. glad these are the kinds of problems we face these days :) hm.. Main Activity Home Home Activity ... -- Aaron J. Seigo signature.asc Description: This i

Re: Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Marco Martin
On Wednesday 15 May 2013 09:59:40 Ivan Čukić wrote: > Hi all, > > I know everybody is busy with plasma2 (even I manage to find some time to > play around with it, unfortunately not more than that), but there is one > issue that I'd like to raise regarding the current release. > > The default name

Default activity naming issues

2013-05-15 Thread Ivan Čukić
Hi all, I know everybody is busy with plasma2 (even I manage to find some time to play around with it, unfortunately not more than that), but there is one issue that I'd like to raise regarding the current release. The default name for the default activity 'Desktop' is causing a few problems. Fi