Default activity naming issues

[Djuro Drljaca]

Hello,

maybe a small modification to the idea. Instead of a special activity all
of them could support this feature to copy/move/clone/whatever-you-call-it
or at least to have the ability to clone an activity and also to
clear/clean it. Maybe there could even be a feature to make a "snapshot" of
the current activity state and then another feature to restore that
snapshot.

Is what I suggested useful? I don't really know, since I don't actually use
activities :)

Regards,
Djuro Drljaca



On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 11:01 AM, Kevin Ottens <ervin at kde.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 16 May 2013 10:40:09 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 16:19:07 Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 15 May 2013 15:31:16 Ivan Čukić wrote:
> > > > Welcome is nice, but again, not a real activity (link to Welcome and
> > > > similar).
> > >
> > > Yeah, I guess it comes from some of the adjustments I have in mind for
> the
> > > overall activity workflow. I'd like a default activity which is the
> one I
> > > get when I login, it'd always be in a clean state (no application
> > > started).
> > > And at any point in time I could say "save as a new activity" it'd take
> > > the
> > > whole content and move it in the new activity (emptying this "default
> > > activity" again).
> >
> > so it would work differently depending on whether you are starting from
> the
> > magical first activity or not?
>
> Only the "emptying" part would be in this magical first activity
> (otherwise as
> you point out it is exactly duplicate). That's the only thing which makes
> me
> uneasy with the idea in its current state: having a magical first activity
> which behaves slightly differently than the other ones. But that's fit my
> workflow better than having to empty by hand every time. :-)
>
> > duplicating activities (which is what "save as" would be) would be easy
> > enough to accomplish .. it would mean potentially duplicating a fair
> amount
> > of data (it isn't just about windows, obviously) but would probably be
> very
> > useful.
>
> Yep, I was thinking windows but you want the whole state indeed. If I'm not
> mistaken currently duplicate deals with the shell state but leaves the
> windows
> alone. I guess a first step could be to extend duplicate to take the
> windows
> into account too.
>
> Regards.
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