First Experience With Activities

[David Baron]

Using 4.7 from Debian Experimental (emphasise that word).

There are a zillion activities available shown on a strip which is quite 
large. I named my normal desktop "main," gave the second activity a name. So 
far, so good :-). I started placing widgets/icons on the second actiivity.

Going back to the first ... it was totally blank, just the panel. Had to put 
everything back. Still, the "cashew" is gone (not the worst loss). I suppose 
this occurred because once another activity is populated, the config file 
format changes and boom! Second activity has its "cashew."

Got that applications to run dialog, mostly covered by the activity strip. 
Need a different UI for this one--also, when I later on, do want apps, how to 
I get that back and use it?

What I would like to see:

Nice ways to move, copy, SHARE, widgets among activities. Right now, they can 
be shared on the panel but that has limited realestate. Right now, each 
activity starts with just the panel, must do everything from scratch.

Instead of the strip, what about an add-activity dialog with templates which 
would offer the pre-populated activities presently offered farther along the 
strip. Then, more of a UI for the activity's mode, properties, applications, 
etc., on a clean UI field.

Another wish-list: The folder-shelf view could be quite useful but could use 
transparency and multi-column/icon view option (extender would need another 
treatment). Right now to see anything here, it takes up too much space.

The folder view (postings have complained about it) was working fine until the 
new activity was populated. Now it does not keep its position.

All in all, this is shaping up quite nicely. Since our widgets can do 
everything metro can (sue 'em!), one can really do most anything in 
KDE/Plasma!
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