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