Re: KDE activities
On 27/11/11 20:00, Alan Chandler wrote:
> With the problems I seem to be having with Gnome3 (not the problem
> that most people have with the shell, which I like - but other
> applications which seem to have become flakey - Gedit crashes on
> closing a tab, Nautilus FTP doesn't seem to work half the time,
> issues I have been discussing here about the applications launched
> with file associations ...) I decided to give KDE 4 another try (I
> had switched to Gnome from KDE when KDE 4 was first introduced).
>
> I am struggling with the concepts behind Activities, Desktops,
> Workspaces and Screens.
Have you read the fine documentation in the KDE Help Centre?
$ khelpcenter
You can also access it from the entry on the Programs Menu, or from the
Help menu in any KDE application.
I'd strongly suggest you refer to Debian specific documentation on KDE.
> This is not helped by the fact that I am trying to follow the advice
> from various web pages - but I don't seem to see what I should see.
>
> In particular - I use Super Q
What is Super Q?
> to bring up the activities manager pane.
Are you talking about "Desktop Activities"?
(many things have "activities").
> This shows I have two activities both named "New Activity". I
> should then right click on a desktop and select "Desktop Settings" I
> should see a window with the left pane having three options
> "Wallpaper", "Activity" and "Mouse Actions".
That sounds like a description of the "Desktop Activity Manager":-
http://ge.tt/9U7gqQA/v/0
NOTES: Options in the "left-hand pane" are determined by "Activity Type".
In the pictured case the Activity Type is Wallpaper. (the other
"Activity Type" is "Folder View")
> Instead I see a window with only two options, "View" and "Mouse
> Actions".
Perhaps some screen shots and links to them would better illustrate what
you are asking about?
>
> Have I not installed something I should have? or has this changed
> and all these web pages are out of date?
What "web pages" are you referring to?
Which Debian release are you running?
What is it that you are trying to achieve?
Cheers
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