On Wednesday 30 September 2009 20:20:01 Roy Wright wrote: > Here's what I did which seems to work nicely: > > Created an auto hide panel centered on top edge. > > Added the activity bar widget to this panel. > > Create Activity (cashew, Zoom Out, alt-D alt-A, then select setup > (wrench icon) (you may have to grab and scroll the desktop to see the > commands) and name the activity. You can also set the background here. > > Use the Activity Bar to select another activity. Note, the first time > after adding an activity, the activity bar has a bug where it will > show the names for all of the activities, but will draw n-1 buttons. > Just click on one button then the activity bar will be correct. > > Now on any activity, you can right click the desktop and choose > Desktop Settings, then change the background.
Seems like an awful lot of hoops to jump through just to get a facility that comes out of the box in 3.5. Maybe I'll give it a try anyway, so thanks. -- Rgds Peter
