<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Yuen Hoe Lim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yuenhoe86@gmail.com" target="_blank">yuenhoe86@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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* associating a Window with an Activity could happen in one of two places: a<br>
new button in the window title bar (would mean some adjustment to kwin) that<br>
would list activities from nepomuk. the other place would be the context menu<br>
of items in the tasks widget<br><br></blockquote></div><div><br>Hmm, I think it's highly likely that people would need/want to associated large numbers of windows to an activity at a time (take Chani's use case - if a code project is associated with an activity then there'd be documentation, code editors, designers, etc) so having to click around menus for each window is a little clunky IMHO. Having something drag and drop-based might help, but I was thinking if perhaps we could do it the way it is done with virtual desktops - with virtual desktops, when I open windows in this virtual desktop it is automatically associated with this desktop, so I can populate my desktops by opening windows, switching to the next desktop, opening more, so on, and they all automatically stay in the desktops I opened them in. Might it be possible to do something similar for activities - have an option that says 'Associate new windows with the current activity', which, when active, automatically associates all windows opened with the activity in which it is opened?<br>
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</div></div></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div class="gmail_quote"><div>Just a thought :)<br><br clear="all">
----<br>Jason "moofang" Lim Yuen Hoe<br>
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<br></blockquote></div><br>Well, if we associate windows with a certain activity, I think we're
kind of going to the virtual desktop idea. As I said earlier, this
whole virtual desktop + activity concept seems to confuse people (even
more when they use the desktop cube effect). We either have to think of
some other term (like the window groups which was proposed some time
back) or somehow make the current arrangement more clear to the user.<br>
IMO, windows can be grouped and then groups can be assigned to
activities. A use case would be the user keeping educational applets
and educational applications/windows related to the "Learning"
activity. And some option on windows like "Show in all activities" would help showing a small terminal window everywhere.<br>
<br clear="all">-- <br>Shantanu Tushar (UTC +0530)<br><a href="http://www.shantanutushar.com" target="_blank">http://www.shantanutushar.com</a><br>