activities overview, take N

[Chani]

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> 
> Maybe not exactly related to this thread, but still something I'd like to
> mention-
> The concept of virtual desktops and activities being separate is something
> I've seen beginners feel rather confusing. Seeing the word "desktop", it
> gives the impression of desktop=wallpaper+applets and when switching
> desktops doesn't change the applets (and changing activities does), it gets
> confusing. I remember there was some idea of replacing virtual desktops
>  with kind of a "window grouping" concept. It will be great and avoids this
>  confusion. I wonder what happened to the idea ..
> 

at tokamak one of the kwin guys mentioned that windows being associated with 
one and only one desktop was fairly ingrained in the spec and lots of windowy 
code.
I don't have a lot of time on my hands and aaron's enthusiatic about Overview, 
so I'm hoping that we can effectively win window-tagging through activity 
associations, and just let virtual desktops slowly fade...

it also gives me the ability to say "these windows are all part of project 
foo, but I want the code ones on this desktop, the documentation windows on 
that desktop, and designer gets a desktop of its own because it's got too many 
little windows". :) so I have more than my screen resolution's "space" for 
each activity's windows (but not for the plasmoids.. huh)

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