On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 12:19 PM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sunday 17 Aug 2014 15:56:05 Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 17/08/2014 15:28, Rich Freeman wrote: > >> > 6. That dolphin mode that gives you a shell that follows the pwd. >> > That is just nifty. >> >> #6 - it does? How do I activate that? Might be useful, I didn't even >> know there was such a fature > > I use Konqueror (with the dolphin plugin) and F4 opens konsole in a separate > window, or Settings/Show Terminal Emulator shows a terminal in the bottom 5th > of Konqueror. My Dolphin doesn't offer the same, probably because I have only > installed selected apps and a few meta packages, not the whole enchilada.
F4 is the default shortcut in dolphin. It is under control-panels-terminal. It runs as a panel/pane as the menu suggests. > >> > Things I think might be improveable: >> > 1. The way it handles window grouping. I dislike a bazillion tabs, >> > but I don't like the way it does grouping all that much either. Maybe >> > I need to better grok activities/etc. >> >> Heh heh:-) I have that problem too. I forced myself to close tabs >> ruthlessly and rely on history. I now try and keep open only tabs I am >> using, not also tabs I might use again. >> >> Activities looks like a good idea, but I can't get them to work and feel >> right. Perhaps I should define what my activities actually mean to me >> better, this is far from simple. > > I was meant to look into activities, so that I can explain it to some KDE > users who also don't know what this is. I vaguely recall understanding the > concept in the past, but never tried it out. Can you please explain in simple > terms what it is and how it is meant to be used? Well, the concept is that maybe you work from home using the same PC, so you have a work activity and a home activity. It is a bit like virtual desktops on steroids as far as I can tell. My problem is that I don't ever exclusively do just one thing at a time. I never really utilized virtual desktops much either for this reason. Maybe I'd benefit from forcing myself to do it more, but... -- Rich
