[kde-linux] Desktop widget like Windows Vista sidebar/clock thing?

[Anne Wilson]

On Wednesday 07 October 2009 14:55:09 Duncan wrote:
> Thierry de Coulon posted on Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:16:58 +0200 as excerpted:
> > On a less important level, it would be nice to be again able to have
> > different backgrouds on different workspaces, it made easier to know
> > where you are
> 
> You're talking different desktops, not different workspaces, right?
> Because different plasma workspaces have had the ability to set different
> wallpapers since at least 4.2.4, when I decided to try (once again) to
> migrate, and this time succeeded, even if it did take me over a hundred
> hours to discover and script workarounds to the various missing
> functionality, etc.
> 
> FWIW, that's available in 4.3.1, now.  I've not installed 4.3.2 yet so
> don't know if they've tweaked for it, tho I know they're planning to make
> the option a bit more accessible with 4.4 if not earlier.  But with 4.3.1
> (and I think 4.3.0 tho IDR for sure), it involves zooming out the
> workspace, then choosing the option from the menu available from the
> zoomed out workspace, for a different workspace (and thus a different
> wallpaper with it) on each desktop.  Then zooming back in...
> 
To see this in action, try
http://userbase.kde.org/images.userbase/6/6b/Plasma_howto-activity-link.gif

Anne
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