Re: howto break up the desktops

[Sebastian Weisgerber <sebastian.weisgerber@dystopianfuture.de>]

On Sunday 06 September 2009 16:58:11 David Baron wrote:
> On Sunday 06 September 2009 16:23:57 David Baron wrote:
> > On Sunday 06 September 2009 13:30:21 Modestas Vainius wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > On sekmadienis 06 Rugsėjis 2009 11:16:13 BasaBuru wrote:
> > > >I'm trying to separate the desktops at have 4 desktops and each with
> > > > one wallpaper diferent and plasmoids diferents.
> > > >
> > > >Is posible put any plasmoid in one desktop and oder plasmoids in
> > > > diferent desktop?  same with wallpapers
> > > >
> > > > Do you now how to make this??
> > >
> > > Available since KDE 4.2 (GUI to set the setting appeared in 4.3). So in
> > >  4.3:
> > >
> > > * Click on the plasma-desktop cashew (top-right corner).
> > > * Zoom out.
> > > * Click "Configure Plasma".
> > > * Check "Different activity for each desktop", click OK.
> > > * Zoom in.
> > >
> > > You are done.
> >
> > Way cool! Brings me back to windows-95 and desktop-plus in one of its
> > later incarnations :-) Based on hooks and hacks, this did not make it to
> > later windows versions but was fun while it lasted.
> >
> > So I tried this here. Zooming back in may or may not be evident or appear
> >  in the right place while playing with this. Thought I lost my first
> >  desktop but somehow got it back.
> >
> > OK, the UI could be improved. Setting wallpaper images takes too many
> > steps and the caching of the images is not so stable (as I said, the
> > extra step should not be needed at all).
> >
> > Now: I want to copy some icons and move some icons to another desktop.
> > HOW?
> 
> Meanwhile, with much effort and embarassment, I have set things back to one
> desktop background/icons for all. This is very promising but also very
>  flakey and the zooming and what becomes the factual desktop1,2,3... is
>  very unstable and unreliable.
> 
Hm no problems here. Do you use 3D-Desktop?
If you don't like Zooming in and out, you could still use the classic Desktoppager in the Panel or as Widget on the Desktop? Or Keyboardshortcuts.