Trying Plasma for a bit to see how green the grass is as a longtime Gnome user. The last time I ran Plasma on my main desktop was version 5.11, I think? It’s been a while…

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Virtual desktop doesn’t segregate running applications and all the rest of the things you can configure in Activites like wallpapers and themes. I much prefer it for organizing my, well, activities when I have a bunch of tasks on the go. I can run an activity for coding that’s distinctly different from personal tasks and I don’t see the programs in the task list from other activities.

    It’s almost like running another plasmashell on an alternate TTY but I can move running applications between Activities or have them show up in multiple Activities, or always have them open on a certain Activity that I’ve dedicated to that app. And I can distinguish between them easily at a glance because I might have an entirely different Global Theme, panels and widgets applied to that Activity

    Protip: set a shortcut for switching activities to Meta-Tab and it makes it way more likely to use.

    Better?

    • bastion@feddit.nl
      1·
      3 days ago

      the things I wanted to do required a non-standard dock (latte?), but made activities so much nicer.

      my dock only had icons on it that reflected the current activity, my backgrounds were different, all the tools for the specific activity that I was doing were immediately available, but weren’t cluttering up the dock when I switched to other activities.

      activities really are sweet, I’m sad to hear KDE is backpedaling on them.

      That said, I’ve been using Gnome because the blended workflow of interacting with desktops, searching for applications, and working with open applications in the overview is just as sweet as it comes.

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        3 days ago

        Well, they haven’t let it go yet, I think it really just takes people keeping up usage and following up bug reports. Latte dock wrapping up did put a wrench in things, because panels aren’t Activity unique, unfortunately. You might be able to bodge something with widgets that works since those are per-activity still.

        And I just can’t swing Gnome, there’s so many things about it that piss me off within minutes of booting into it. If Plasma went away tomorrow, I’d probably have to make do with XFCE or Mate.