Re: [opensuse] Whoop! Finally - 2 rows on kde4 kicker ("plasma-panel")
- From: Rodney Baker <rodney.baker@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 15:39:56 +0930
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:25:51 David C. Rankin wrote:
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I'm sure they serve some purpose for somebody, but I have never had a
problem opening the app I wanted to use, managing its window(s) when it
was open, and being smart enough to close it when I was finished.
From what I can tell all that "Activities" are supposed to do for you is
open up a regularly used set of apps all at once instead of you clicking
the icon too start each app. I don't see the value in it. I mean what --
you can manage at most ~10 open apps and open windows at a time before you
start wearing out the Alt+Tab keys, right? Where's the benefit in having
entire sets of apps configured to open at once that you then have to
manage and add apps to the set and remove apps from the set as apps
change, are replaced, etc?
Not so much apps as plasma widgets. With virtual desktops the plasma widgets
are repeated on each desktop.
With activities you can have different sets of plasma widgets for different
tasks - which would be OK if there were that many useful plasma widgets
around...and if you preferred using them to windowed apps...and if you could
get to them without having to move /minimise other windows (which you can't
because they're effectively part of the desktop background and can't be on top
of other windows...)
It probably "seemed like a good idea at the time" but it is too much like a
solution in search of a problem.
That is one of the challenges for programmers - being innovative in finding
solutions to real problems, not simply changing a paradigm for the sake of
change itself.
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