Usage of KDE and MY persona

[Kevin Krammer]

On Monday, 2012-06-18, Hendrik Sollich wrote:
> Hello KDE,
> 
> I read a bunch of news about the discussion going on about the
> improvements to kde for people like "Raj" and "Carla" and that things
> were going to become "more useful".
> After what happend at gnome I've become a bit anxious about "improving
> usability" so I'm just asking for some reassurance.
> 
> Will I be able to use KDE5 the way I'm using KDE4 today? Meaning: n-by-n
> workspaces, panels, window-rules and most of all 'configurability'?

I am pretty sure about that. KWin, which is responsible for virtual workspaces 
and window-rules, might change how it is interacting with the lower parts of 
the stack, e.g. adding support for wayland, but I don't think there are any 
plans to remove things like virtual desktops as long as the base technologies 
allow such things to be implemented (which as far as I know they do).

Virtual desktops, and to a lesser extent window specific rules, are widely used 
in the KDE contributor community. I can't think of any KDE person I've met who 
was not using multiple virtual desktops to organize application windows.

As far as I understand, the people working on KDE workspace products consider 
activities to be a complimentary technology to virtual desktops, i.e. 
something that can be used in concert with desktop switching.

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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