Re: howto break up the desktops
On Thursday 10 September 2009 19:10:27 David Baron wrote:
> On Thursday 10 September 2009 18:39:51 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> > On Wednesday 09 September 2009 14:33:21 David Baron wrote:
> > > Applets that are on the panel are shared in different desktops. Is
> > > there any way to share non-panel plasmoids rather than have different
> > > instances of say, trashcan, home, etc. Of course, if I want different
> > > colors or such, I need different instances, but common stuff should be
> > > sharable.
> >
> > Widgets are isolated to their containment. The panel(s) are one
> > containment. Each activity is a separate containment. It is (or used to
> > be) possible to change desktop (collection of applications) and activity
> > (collection of widgets) separately. Note that, when using such an
> > option, the wallpaper is associated with the containment, so it changes
> > when you switch activity, not when you switch desktop.
>
> OK, time for some clarification of desktops (and their names) vs.
> activities. The UI was very easy to mess up (and as I said, five activies
> over four desktops yielded unpredictable results at re-logon). Implied in
> this post is that I could somehow assign activities (and their
> containments) at will to any of the desktops (and presumably get back
> there on re-logon, change this, and so forth...). Very versatile, maybe
> overkill for the functionality, and needs a simple, consistant UI, zoomed
> IN.
>
> The only thing that I found manageable zoomed out was to set separate
> desktop activities. The zoomed out screen was slow, difficult to
> navigate--I did finally figure it out so I could get back to desktop-1 and
> zoom in :-)
>
> I have not played with dashboards (which I assume are another containment
> for applets, most useful when using a folder-containment for a desktop or
> as one more place for common applets among various desktops (or is that
> activities...?). Maybe some dashboard vs. panel clarification also needed
> since the only thing panel would have and dashboard not is place for panel
> applets (but should these be changed to plasmoids at some point?).
>
I have been using multiple activiities for a few days now and find that it is
not stable. Sometimes it logs onto one, sometimes another. Sometimes the
desktop-activity pairings change. A pain to go and set them back.
1. How do I (can I in the current version) delete unwanted "activities"??
2. How do I (can I in the current version) hard-associate an activity with a
desktop and have that "stick"??
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