Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-22 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Le samedi 16 juin 2012 13:19:49 Aurélien Gâteau a écrit : > Hi, > > One of the output of the KDE Vision sprint is a document I started to write > to define activities and how they relate to virtual desktops. You can find > it here: > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Workspace_Sprint/ActivitiesAndVi

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-20 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
Le samedi 16 juin 2012 19:28:45 makism a écrit : > Hello, > > About the example in the wiki, perhaps activities "Home" and "Play" > should explicitly each contain an empty VD otherwise it could be misleading > to new users that each activity defines it's own number of VDs, while it's > global. Ag

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-20 Thread Aurélien Gâteau
[Sorry for not replying earlier, I am helping holding a KDE booth at a Linux exhibition until thursday] Le samedi 16 juin 2012 14:21:39 Marco Martin a écrit : > I would like to keep this definition of orthogonality between activities and > virtual desktops in the definition, describing use cases

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-17 Thread Marco Martin
On Sunday 17 June 2012, Ivan Cukic wrote: > > In short: we identified activities as one of the core features of our > > workspaces and VDs are close to fall off the tree. > > A brave decision. Brave indeed. > > If that is really going to happen we need a kicking activities UI. > Activities are no

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-17 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Sunday 17 June 2012 10:59:10 Ivan Cukic wrote: > > In short: we identified activities as one of the core features of our > > workspaces and VDs are close to fall off the tree. > > A brave decision. Brave indeed. It's not really a decision per say, it's just a "finding" (I'm using "" because of

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-17 Thread Ivan Cukic
> In short: we identified activities as one of the core features of our > workspaces and VDs are close to fall off the tree. A brave decision. Brave indeed. If that is really going to happen we need a kicking activities UI. Activities are not even close to the usability of VDs unfortunately. S

Re: Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-17 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Sunday 17 June 2012 09:04:44 Ivan Čukić wrote: > > Given the result of the tree game, it is very clear to me that > > implementing > > this feature is not worth the effort. > > Can you elaborate on the tree game? And what were the conclusions > regarding activities in general, and activities+VDs

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-17 Thread Ivan Čukić
> Given the result of the tree game, it is very clear to me that implementing > this feature is not worth the effort. Can you elaborate on the tree game? And what were the conclusions regarding activities in general, and activities+VDs. This is not really useful for those of us who weren't at the

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-16 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 16.06.2012 18:35, schrieb Ivan Čukić: About the example in the wiki, perhaps activities "Home" and "Play" should explicitly each contain an empty VD otherwise it could be misleading to new users that each activity defines it's own number of VDs, while it's Different number of VDs for diffe

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-16 Thread Luiz Romário Santana Rios
A Sábado 16 Junho 2012 14:21:39 Marco Martin escreveu: > On Saturday 16 June 2012, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > > Hi, > > > > One of the output of the KDE Vision sprint is a document I started to > > write > > to define activities and how they relate to virtual desktops. You can find > > it here: > >

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-16 Thread Ivan Čukić
> About the example in the wiki, perhaps activities "Home" and "Play" > should explicitly each contain an empty VD otherwise it could be misleading > to new users that each activity defines it's own number of VDs, while it's Different number of VDs for different activities is something that has be

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-16 Thread makism
Hello, About the example in the wiki, perhaps activities "Home" and "Play" should explicitly each contain an empty VD otherwise it could be misleading to new users that each activity defines it's own number of VDs, while it's global. Just a thought. Makis -- i am thatguy.gr ___

Re: RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

2012-06-16 Thread Marco Martin
On Saturday 16 June 2012, Aurélien Gâteau wrote: > Hi, > > One of the output of the KDE Vision sprint is a document I started to write > to define activities and how they relate to virtual desktops. You can find > it here: > http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Workspace_Sprint/ActivitiesAndVirtualDesk