https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143
--- Comment #228 from Dngrsone <dngrs...@gmail.com> --- (In reply to Nathanael Schilling from comment #222) > (In reply to Caoimhín Ó Donnaíle from comment #221) > > > Can I make an "Activity Cube" with one Activity on each side, and does > switching between activities use the compositor (kwin)? Last time I checked > this was not the case. The reason I (and others I know) initially switched > to Linux around 10 years ago was the fact that it had compiz and you could > do stuff like this. The reason I switched to KDE around 5 years ago was that > plasma could paint a transparent background on the Desktop, letting you get > a different wallpaper on each Desktop. It seems like every time this feature > appears, someone decides "nobody is using this" and soon there is a bug > report with 100 CCs with the standard answer being "our desktop paradigm > that uses activities is better than yours so just change". Eventually > someone writes a hack that doesn't really fix the problem but just changes > the wallpaper whenever the desktop is changed, and we're back to what people > were doing 10 years ago. The state of multiple wallpapers on the > linux-desktop remains pathetic. This. I don't really care how it's done, and yes, it's a fairly non-utilitarian pretty, but this is one of the things that drew me to Linux as a full-time OS. I tried Cinnamon, and it's a nice desktop, but at the time not quite mature. I went to KDE 4.x and was happy, but there were problems (still are) with little things like bluetooth implementation that I could never solve. I went to LM 18 xfce, with a wonderful mass-rename function in thunar, but bluetooth still wouldn't work and to my chagrin I couldn't get PHPMyAdmin to work either! Sure, the cube is there, kinda, but not the pretty function we had all the way back in the Gnome 2 days. I mean, the transition between desktops looked cubelike, but we used to be able to see and manipulate a whole cube, see where each desktop sat in relation to the others: pretty, and high-tech! But that was almost a decade ago. KDE 5.x solves those problems I had with xfce, but then I lose the one utility that I had gotten so comfortable with: quickly switching between virtual desktops with each desktop having different widgets and different wallpapers... with each wallpaper I know which desktop I'm on and therefore which work I am doing in each. I am on KDE 5.x now, using the Activities workaround, trying to get everything set up the way I like (haven't got my ctrl-alt-arrow switch working yet), but my pretties are gone, and while this is a modern desktop environment, with bluetooth that works with my equipment, I still feel like things are going backward. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
