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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Alex |
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> Schuster did opine thusly: |
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> > Alan McKinnon writes: |
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> > > Activities. wtf are those? |
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> > I tink they are really cool, although I don't use them, and probably |
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> > never will. But I'm not the average user. I have six virtual desktops |
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> > (current screenshots are at |
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> > http://www.wonkology.org/comp/desktop/2010-11-11/ ), each one has its |
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> > purpose. For each window you can define the desktop it will run on. |
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> > You change the desktop, and you get new windows displayed, while the |
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> > plasmoids stay the same. |
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> > With activities it's the other way around. You switch the activity, and |
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> > the windows stay the same, but you get different plasmoids. |
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> That's a decent explanation, thanks a lot. I can see how some folks would |
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> like that and why it's been coded. |
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In case you're still interested, this blog entry has some more information |
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on activities: |
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http://chani.wordpress.com/2010/12/26/activity-oriented-vs-application-oriented-workspaces/ |
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It also covers differences in Gnome's and KDE's approach to this activity stuff. |
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