Activity identicons v 1.99 :) (post-akademy)

[Chani]

On Monday, July 12, 2010 03:04:42 am Markus Slopianka wrote:
> On Monday 12 July 2010 11:55:50 Marco Martin wrote:
> > unfortunately, i see that having something already done is often enough
> > to make people not wanting to use those
> 
> Maybe it should be easily discoverable what Activities actually are.
> 
> Maybe I'm uninformed, but I see them as virtual desktops with individual
> Plasmoid setups.

nope. an Activity is what you're doing at the moment: the tools and documents 
that you need for that work. plasmoids, windows, etc... the activity is meant 
to show you what you're working on and filter out things that could be a 
distraction.
you can sorta do this with virtual desktops, but they're not as powerful as 
activities will be, and many people use >1 desktop for the same activity.

if you want details, go read my blog posts on activities :) 
http://chani.wordpress.com/?s=activities


> Plasma in SC 4.4 had a quirky GUI for selecting activities, but at least
> showed thumbnails of them. In 4.5 thumbnails were replaced with random
> patterns and I still don't see the benefit of pattern over thumbnails.

I'd love it if someone could come up with a workable way to do thumbnails in 
the activity manager - I'm sure I said so in the BR.