https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=341143
--- Comment #240 from Bernd Paysan <bernd.pay...@gmx.de> --- Am Samstag, 4. März 2017, 09:59:16 CET schrieb David H. : > I hope you see where I'm going with this. Activities and Virtual Desktops, > while being similar in many ways, are most definitely *not* the same thing. Actually, I think of virtual desktop as different "rooms" on my screen. This is, because a virtual desktop is spatially arranged, you go to the left, right, up or down from one desktop to the next. I usually have different activities on different desktops (not necessarily in the Plasma sense of "activity"), e.g. one desktop has shells and emacs, and is for programming, another desktop has Kontact and is for e-mail, the third desktop has Chromium, and is for browsing the web, the fourth has Digikam and is for processing photos. You get it. It's like the different rooms in your house's example. If I need more shells in the programming desktop (and yes, I need), I open more windows and more tabs per Konsole window. If I need more websites in the web-browsing desktop, I open more tabs. That is analogous to your benches: They are in the same room, they are visible and available at the same time. I liked KDE4's way to tie an activity to a virtual desktop, it made sense to also have different widgets in different virtual desktops (and especially different wallpapers to ease your orientation), and slide from one activity to the other just by pushing the mouse to the edge of the screen. I think the only thing that's now missing to fix this bug is to configure the desktop edge and desktop scrollwheel action to slide between different activities instead of different virtual desktops. Everything else is already in place: We have an activity pager which can replace the virtual desktop pager, when we switch between activities, it does slide (though not always in the right direction, as the activity pager looks 2D, but the activities are actually arranged only in one direction, horizontally). Your "thematically" vs. "spatially" is about the right way to think, but many of us separate thematically different things spatially. Like in your startup example: You have the garage for the workbenches (the "dirty" part of your startup), you have the working room with the computers, the living room for meetings (use the TV for presentations). You might also have a temporal relation, so in the evening, you change the way the rooms are used: The employees went home, and you can now use the TV in the living room as actual TV. Perhaps this is what the original "activity" designers imagined: Instead of quickly walking from one room to the other, you rearrange the room, and use it for something else. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.
