Plasma/Kwin cooperation to achieve efficacy of Activites spatial metaphors

[Jud Craft]

I apologize.  Still getting used to mailing lists.

On 2/11/09, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak at suse.cz> wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 of February 2009, Jud Craft wrote:
>> It doesn't help that the transitioning-between-Activities bears little
>> distinction from transitioning  between workspaces/virtual desktops.
>> It's sometimes hard for the user to figure out exactly what the big
>> deal is.  Personally, I rationalize it myself this way:
>>
>> --Virtual desktops are like having a really huge desk in your office.
>> There's plenty of room for stuff, but you have to reach around to get
>> to any of it.
>>
>> --Plasma Activities are like having _different_ desks in your office.
>> For example, one for essay writing, one for your reading, and one for
>> communication (memos, letters, in and out boxes).
>>
>> The idea of "having more than one desk VS having a huge desk" is
>> immediately apparent to any office and home user;
>
>  I guess I'm not one of those then, as I'm at a loss here. Virtual desktops
> are technically neither of the two ways above, and they can be perceived as
> either depending on what metaphor one chooses to use.
>
>  I also don't quite follow on the rest of the mail, possibly because I still
> haven't found out what makes the activities different from virtual desktops
> and the Plasma FAQ hasn't helped me there either. The way I see it
> activities
> are virtual desktops for plasmoids done independently from virtual desktops
> and I don't see why it couldn't be simply done directly as virtual desktops.
> It's quite normal for people to have desktop 1 named e.g. as "Work", 2
> as "Web", 3 as "Mail" and 4 as "Custom".
>
>  Looking at the rest of the thread, I don't think it makes sense to discuss
> this before first knowing what the activities are actually supposed to be.
>
> PS: Some mails in this thread are a pain to read. Could you please learn to
> reply and quote properly and not just have a huge quotation and one added
> line somewhere in it? Thanks.
>
> --
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