> There's some experimental code right now, but we > need to find a good metaphor to translate it into something that makes sense > to the user.
My mind immediately translated that to "Have solution, seek problem". I never got the hang of that activity thing. Still have no idea how someday it is supposed to make me more productive. But i have some ideas what i would like to have. And because i don't care how it is named in the end i just put my wishes into this thread. The following has nothing to do with activities in my opinion. I would like to be able to configure my virtual desktop/widgets a. Same widgets on all virtual desktops b. Different widgets on all virtual desktops c. Associating a set of widget with virtual desktops, like widget set a on virtual desktop 1,3,5, widget set b on virtual desktip 2,4,6) would be nice to have. Activity in the sense i understand it has nothing to do with widgets/virtual desktops. An activity is primarily nothing but some kind of global setting i am able to configure. Like creating an activity "Work", "Private" or "KDE Development". Applications then could allow different configurations associated with the activity. For example the global shortcuts code would allow to have different sets of global shortcuts depending of the set activity, plasma could allow setting a different theme / wallpaper etc. Amarok could switch playlists if i configure that. khotkeys could adapt, kmail shows different mail boxes etc. . kwin has a different configuration (less virtual desktops on the private activity but more visual bling). Konqueror switches bookmarks. nepomuk shows/hides different results depending on the activity. I want that kmail thing to not get distracted when working with private email, i want to associate messenger contacts with activities like offline for user xyz when in activity private because i want to not get bothered by my colleagues when in private mode. All of this is opt in. When i create a activity nothing changes. I have to go and reconfigure something and click the button "Apply to current activity" or "Associate configuration with activity". Each application has to decide and implements it's own support of activities. I have no idea if that is workable/doable. But that's what i would like to have as activities. Mike ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel