Activities

[Reinhold Rumberger]

Am Samstag 04 Dezember 2010, um 04:10:42 schrieb Lindsay Mathieson:
> On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 12:37:32 PM Clay Weber wrote:
> > as far as I can decipher is that Activities are more a subset of virtual
> > desktops........or was that the other way 'round???
> > 
> > I have seen nothing that shows how they are different from each other,
> > outside  of separate widgets on each (not including panels for some
> > reason)
> 
> Actually I've now discovered that you can have different widgets and
> backgrounds for different virtual screens:
> 
> System Settings|Workspace Behaviour|Virtual Desktops
> - Check "Different Widgets for Each Desktop"
> 
> So you can:
> - Have different Widgets etc for each desktop
> 
> - Name each desktop
> 
> - Easy switch between them with the Keyboard Interface
> 
> - The Pager widget looks excellent vertical or horizontal. I have mine with
> 4 Desktops, 1 Column in a auto hide vertical panel - its very usable.
> 
> - Session management remembers which app is in which desktop when
> restarting
> 
> - Its *stable*
> 
> 
> *Really* not seeing the point of activities now.

Actually, you're using activities - that option simply creates a different 
activity for each desktop. A pretty annoying "feature" as it uses enormous 
amounts of resources and you have to maintain the widgets for each desktop 
separately (each widget uses it's own share of RAM and CPU, making the desktop 
*really* slow in the long run).

Also, as Mark pointed out and I forgot: you can assign windows to different 
activities, which adds an extra layer of usefulness to them.

  --Reinhold