Separate activity for each desktop in 4.5?

[Basil Chupin]

On 15/08/2010 23:24, Reinhold Rumberger wrote:
> On Sunday 15 August 2010, Basil Chupin wrote:
>    
>> On 15/08/2010 22:17, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>      
>>> On Sunday, August 15, 2010 08:15:04 am Ric Moore did opine:
>>>        
>>>> On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 22:13 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>          
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>            
>>>> I just did that Gene. Each screen has a separate wall paper.
>>>> You just have to do it one screen at a time, in each one. Ric
>>>>          
>>> I did that Ric, set screen one to the wallpaper from  my
>>> /usr/pix tree, then switched to screen 2, and changed it.  All
>>> 8 were changed.  So there must be another checkbox I've missed.
>>>   Someplace...
>>>        
>> As much as I hate to burst the bubble....but this absolute desire
>> to have a different wallpaper for each desktop is nothing but a
>> phobia simply because you think that you *must* have a different
>> wallpaper for each desktop or your life is a total miserable
>> failure.
>>      
> While I agree that this isn't a major feature, the underlying design
> decision was stupid and short-sighted.

 From another perspective, it can also be argued that the additional 
coding necessary to produce a different wallpaper for each different 
desktop is also "stupid and short-sighted" and bloats the program.


>   Also, there are some people
> around with rather bad eyesight for whom this feature is rather
> crucial.
>    

My eyesight hasn't been perfect since the age of 8 years. Nevertheless I 
can manage enough to tell the difference as to which desktop I am selecting.

Besides, one can run as many applications on a single desktop as one can 
manage, right?

Having a different desktop is nothing but a nicety, correct?

For example, Windows XP came with the one desktop and yet you could run 
as many applications as you wanted that your RAM could handle.

Then someone came up with the "Tweak" which gave you 4 desktops - and 
everybody went *WILD*! Gosh! *4* Desktops!

The only problem was that it didn't magically increase your RAM, and all 
applications still had to run in the available RAM - that is, the same 
you could run on a single desktop.

You can run all your apps on one single desktop in Kubuntu (or even 
*buntu), right?

So, what's the argument? :-)

BC

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