The future of virtual desktops

[Nuno Pinheiro]

A Quinta, 3 de Março de 2011 06:36:02 Aaron J. Seigo você escreveu:
> On Friday, February 25, 2011, Hans Chen wrote:
> >    - I see virtual desktops (VDs) as subordinate to activities
> 
> this is incorrect. disabuse yourself of this notion.
> 
> >, i.e., each activity should have its own set of virtual desktops.
> >Currently VDs are not activity aware.
> 
> i don't particularly see the benefit of this. it is in theory possible
> (kwin is already aware of activities), but unless there is significant
> benefit to such a thing, it will be very complex to add to the
> configuration GUI.
> 
> >    - There is an option to kind of merge activities and virtual desktops
> 
> no, there isn't.
> 
> >    ("Different widgets for each desktop"). I know that it was added due
> >    to popular demand, but now that activities also manage windows I
> >    don't
> > 
> > think it is needed anymore. (Some users are not going to like this, I
> > know.)
> 
> yes, like the people we implemented that feature for in the first place:
> people who want different wallpapers and widgets on each desktop.
> 
> virtual desktops and activities are actually, not just in theory but
> actually, orthogonal. we know this from usage patterns of real live users.
:)

I catualy think that the activities change UI should ilustrate exactly that; 
the ortogonal nature of them :)
we would show stacks of activities showing all their VD's
the vd's would be aligned horozontaly....(small thumbnails of them)
and the activities would be on the verical axis.... yes Ortogonal :D

in this UI one should be able to create more Vd's for an activitie or create 
more activities. since their creation is show in ortogonal places it will help 
people wraping their brains around the concept.

The point of entery tor this feature showd in a minimised form alow to switch 
activities on one click. 


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