On Thursday 10 September 2009 19:10:27 David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 10 September 2009 18:39:51 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:33:21 David Baron wrote: > > > Applets that are on the panel are shared in different desktops. Is > > > there any way to share non-panel plasmoids rather than have different > > > instances of say, trashcan, home, etc. Of course, if I want different > > > colors or such, I need different instances, but common stuff should be > > > sharable. > > > > Widgets are isolated to their containment. The panel(s) are one > > containment. Each activity is a separate containment. It is (or used to > > be) possible to change desktop (collection of applications) and activity > > (collection of widgets) separately. Note that, when using such an > > option, the wallpaper is associated with the containment, so it changes > > when you switch activity, not when you switch desktop. > > OK, time for some clarification of desktops (and their names) vs. > activities. The UI was very easy to mess up (and as I said, five activies > over four desktops yielded unpredictable results at re-logon). Implied in > this post is that I could somehow assign activities (and their > containments) at will to any of the desktops (and presumably get back > there on re-logon, change this, and so forth...). Very versatile, maybe > overkill for the functionality, and needs a simple, consistant UI, zoomed > IN. > > The only thing that I found manageable zoomed out was to set separate > desktop activities. The zoomed out screen was slow, difficult to > navigate--I did finally figure it out so I could get back to desktop-1 and > zoom in :-) > > I have not played with dashboards (which I assume are another containment > for applets, most useful when using a folder-containment for a desktop or > as one more place for common applets among various desktops (or is that > activities...?). Maybe some dashboard vs. panel clarification also needed > since the only thing panel would have and dashboard not is place for panel > applets (but should these be changed to plasmoids at some point?). >
I have been using multiple activiities for a few days now and find that it is not stable. Sometimes it logs onto one, sometimes another. Sometimes the desktop-activity pairings change. A pain to go and set them back. 1. How do I (can I in the current version) delete unwanted "activities"?? 2. How do I (can I in the current version) hard-associate an activity with a desktop and have that "stick"?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org