[Bug 165781] I am unable to do any of the exciting things Arron and other s blogs lead me to believe is in KDE 4

tracyanne kde.1.tracyanne at spamgourmet.com
Sun Jul 6 10:37:02 CEST 2008


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------- Additional Comments From kde.1.tracyanne spamgourmet com  2008-07-06 10:37 -------
Thanks for that explanation. Not being a person who uses desktop icons
much, if at all, I don't see much use for that fucntionality as it
currently exists. What you are talking about for 4.2, sounds a lot more
like what I was expecting  in the current beta. If what you are talking
about enables me to kit out different desktops for different purposes,
then I will probably be impressed.

As for zoomin in and out to see more or less icons, I don't have much
use for that, as I don't find Icons particulaly useful as a paradigm for
working, and your giant ones, the plasmoids add nothing to the paradigm,
as far as I'm concerned. and if I can customise each desktop for a
particular functionality than zoom in zoom out will be redundant anyway.

regards

tracyanne


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Subject: [Bug 165781] I am unable to do any of the exciting things Arron
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Date: 6 Jul 2008 07:55:48 -0000

> And then there's this Zoom In/Zoom Out thing at the top right hand
> corner that makes the desktop wallpaper bigger and smaller, what's the
> point of that? 


http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/07/desktop-zooming.html
http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/FAQ#What_is_the_Zooming_User_Interface_.28ZUI.29.3F

> I read in your blog that one could configure these icons things, these
> plasmoids in such a way that one could, for example have different
> desktops kitted out in different ways.


plasma offers Activities that let you group different sets of widgets
around, yes. and people use it quite successfully; we get fan mail about
it on a fairly regular basis these days even.

right now every virtual desktop shows the same activity (so it's one
activity at a time)

in 4.2 we'll be bringing the option of associating activities with
different desktops (so it's 1..N activities at a time, where N is the
number of virtual desktops).

the rest of the Activities are available by zooming out and selecting
one of them.

and that is, actually, what i've said in blog. precisely.


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