RFC: Activities vs Virtual Desktop document on the wiki

[Martin Gräßlin]

On Sunday 17 June 2012 09:04:44 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > Given the result of the tree game, it is very clear to me that
> > implementing
> > this feature is not worth the effort.
> 
> Can you elaborate on the tree game? And what were the conclusions
> regarding activities in general, and activities+VDs.
It's difficult for me to explain. I would leave that to others :-)

In short: we identified activities as one of the core features of our 
workspaces and VDs are close to fall off the tree.
> 
> This is not really useful for those of us who weren't at the sprint:
> http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Workspace_Sprint/Games/ProductTreeSummary
> 
> > As I know that this would be very
> > complex and error prone I would veto any attempt to implement it :-)
> 
> I agree that it would be a rather problematic thing that would have *a
> lot* of problems, but if somebody spent 6 months on that and provide a
> bug-free patch that works even in unimaginable corner cases (the ideal
> world scenario) - would you still veto it? :) (just want to see how
> hard is the veto, I'm not willing to spend 6 months on that project)
I doubt anyone would be able to produce a patch over a time span of 6 month 
without the help of the KWin team and without a long review period. I would 
not consider my time well spend by helping such a project.

Cheers
Martin
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