https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143
Jody <o...@jsankey.com> changed:
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--- Comment #328 from Jody <o...@jsankey.com> ---
Just re-remembered this issue installing Kubuntu 20.04 as I have every LTS
release since KDE 5 :-(.
My use case is to separate the things I work on into a small number of long
term buckets that I can keep separate on my screen and in my head. This doesn't
sound too unusual. Both virtual desktops and activities sound like they should
be able to do this but both have pain points.
Activities:
+ Customizing wallpaper and application launcher by activity is great
- Order-by-last-use makes this unusable for me with more than two activities: I
can't predict which activity I'm going to move to with a "next" keypress and
the keybindings to jump to a specific activity are broken for me in Kubuntu
20.04. The inability to customize transition effects means the transition
doesn't help ground the user in a sequence (horizontal slide with side-by-side
monitors is particularly unhelpful), and I can't even get activities in the
switcher to appear in a sane order (e.g. alphabetical). This introduces a lot
of cognitive overhead around a transition that breaks flow.
- Moving a window between activities is a bit clumsy due to the per-activity
toggling.
- All of the UI for managing activities feels a little "unfinished" to me.
Virtual Desktops:
+ The desktop cube animation provides a great visual metaphor that keeps the
relationship between the spaces clear.
+ Cycling between desktops is predictable and the key bindings work.
+ Moving windows between desktops is easy.
- The inability to customize wallpaper by desktop means there are few visual
cues as to the current location in the sequence.
For the last 4 years I've been using activities and limited myself to 2
activities to avoid the switching issues. This time I'm going with 3 virtual
desktops and trying to live with the fact they all look the same. Trying either
"remember desktop per activity" or vallpaper led to broken animations during
transition that were more distracting for me than the benefit they provided.
I've been using KDE for 11 years now and I really do appreciate all the work
the devs put in, but in this area it feels we're lacking the big picture of
what user needs should be solved and how to provide functionality that works
well together to meet these needs.
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