14.04 Questions

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Whether or not the pager is put into the standard taskbar is set up by
the distro, as far as I know.

Nothing is going away. You can have as many virtual desktops as you
want, just like you always have.

"Nothing nobody wants"? The developers work on what *they* want. More
help is always welcome - this is free software, made by people. Those
who contribute are the ones guiding the development direction.

And there are LOTS of areas needed volunteers besides coding, such as
documentation, artwork, design, translations, web work, sysadmin, list
administration, IRC channel operators, and on and on. If you are
interested in helping out, we can use your help.

Valorie

On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 7:05 PM, Bill vance <faptagon at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks gang, I'll try to find pager.  What about my other question, though?
> Seems like the functionality is just going away for nothing anyone wants.
>
> Bill
>
>
> On 4/17/15, O. Sinclair <o.sinclair at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 17/04/2015 13:44, Nils Kassube wrote:
>>> Bill Vance wrote:
>>>> 1st, what happened to the little cubes down in
>>>> the panel, the ones you click on to go to
>>>> different desktops?
>>>
>>> Different desktops are replaced by different activities in the default
>>> settings. Please don't ask me in which way that is an improvement, I
>>> have only had troubles with activities. Anyway, you can use several
>>> desktops again if you go to systemsettings -> Workspace Behavior ->
>>> Virtual Desktops. There you can increase the number of desktops from 1
>>> to the number you prefer. I'm not sure if you also have to add a widget
>>> to the panel to switch desktops or if it appears automatically.
>>>
>> you will likely have to add a panel widget, "pager" I think it is
>> called. I remove every trace of activities myself as they do not
>> represent how I normally handle my workflow
>>
>> personally I think the whole Activities concept is a bit overambitious
>> ala Akonadi
>>
>> I use 2-3 desktops geared towards work, personal, social. But I see few,
>> if any, advantages in opening these in some kind of "frozen as you you
>> left them" state. Note this a personal opinion, I may misunderstand the
>> whole concept.

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