Separate activity for each desktop in 4.5?

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday, August 14, 2010 11:15:28 pm Reinhold Rumberger did opine:

> On Sunday 15 August 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Saturday, August 14, 2010 10:11:53 pm Reinhold Rumberger did
> 
> opine:
> > > On Saturday 14 August 2010, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > > On Saturday, August 14, 2010 12:36:25 pm Reinhold Rumberger
> > > > did
> > > 
> > > opine:
> > > > > On Saturday 14 August 2010, Josh Stephenson wrote:
> > > > > > In earlier versions of kde 4 (I can't remember when it
> > > > > > started it was probably 4.3)  you could check a box in
> > > > > > the activity settings to associate a separate activity
> > > > > > for each desktop/workspace. This would allow you to have
> > > > > > a separate wallpaper for each desktop.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > In 4.5, with the introduction of the activity manager,
> > > > > > this option seems to have been moved or vanished
> > > > > > entirely.  I can't find a way get more than one wallpaper
> > > > > > for all of my workspaces and I can't find a way to merge
> > > > > > activities and workspaces.  I personally don't have a
> > > > > > need for both workspaces and
> > > > > > activities... and while I understand some people do,
> > > > > > taking away the other option seems like a regression.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > Or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place.  Does
> > > > > > anybody how to achieve what I want to do in 4.5?
> > > > > 
> > > > > This has been chaged for quite a while now. There was even a
> > > > > thread about it on this list.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Execute "kcmshell4 desktop" and select the checkbox.
> > > > 
> > > > It is checked, but I have been unable to find where I can
> > > > select the background image to use.
> > > 
> > > Right click on the desktop and select the settings entry (it's
> > > the last entry here).
> > 
> > Thank you Reinhold, it works, unforch it sets all 8 screens alike.
> > 
> >  I was hoping I could finally separate them & use a different
> > 
> > image per screen.
> 
> You can if you combine it with the one activity per desktop
> "feature". Unfortunately this also means that you'll have to setup
> every widget for each desktop, so this isn't an option for me.
> There's a bugreport somewhere on bugs.kde.org and it's unlikely to be
> resolved soon, because the developers don't see the point (and seem
> to have a "we know what's best for the user" complex).
> 
>   --Reinhold

Humph, dumb.  IMNSHO of course.  Darnit, that was probably the most used 
feature of kde pre 4.  Any idea what the bz number is?  I'll go ring the 
bell and let my thoughts be known.

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