Ivan Čukić

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Link your documents to activities now!

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development: Activities section, on 11 May 2012

Seems I’ve realized I haven’t been blogging for too long and now I’m writing too much.

The new fun and fancy feature of Activities is being able to link files and folders to activities by right-clicking them in Dolphin, Konqueror, Folder View. You can see what it looks like in the screenshots.

The first screenshot shows the menu for a single file, while the second shows it for a multi-item selection.

What’s the point?

Currently, this doesn’t do much - you can show the linked files on your desktop if you set your desktop layout to be contour (not the whole Plasma Active, but only the widget layout).

And soon, I’m planning to also have a KIO implemented so that you can browse all the linked files by browsing activities://something/…

Comments:

BajK
What I’d find really useful is if Places were associatable to activities. So if I am in the "Home" activity, I get my Pictures, Videos, Documents, etc folders. When I am in the "University" activity, I get all my different classes shown in the sidebar.
Luis
Very nice. Do you have plans for an "Activity folder view" widget? What about linking activities and pimo:project?
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-27210" rel="nofollow">Luis</a>: When KIO becomes usable, you'll be able to have the "Activity folder view".
As for pimo:Anything, that is up to the applications that use those. I can't go around and patch every application in KDE :)
Lindsay Mathieson
Interesting. Finally starting to use activities on a daily basis myself and seeing the usecase for filtering resources on a per activity basis. Certainly a document set that way could be useful - I'd like to be able to do the same with bookmarks as well, dividing them up by Android/KDE/Work would be really useful.
Real potential for utter confusion as well though :) Very much a power user feature. I wonder if it will ever be used by much more than developers.
Matija “hook” Šuklje
Neat! Thanks Ivan :)
What I'm *really* looking forward to is to have contacts and e-mail accounts/folders filtered by activities. Well, the whole PIM and communication stack ;)
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-27207" rel="nofollow">BajK</a>: It can't happen before Frameworks 5.
Aaron Seigo
imho the solution is not to patch every application under the sun to know about activities but to do as we have with Plasma Active and make Share Like Connect a central part of the desktop.
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-27212" rel="nofollow">Aaron Seigo</a>: Yes, Aaron, but all Active apps *are* patched to support activities - SLC wouldn't even know what is displayed in a window if the window didn't tell it to the activity manager.
I do agree that SLC should be a central part of the desktop (it is for me).
As for the dolphin and similar apps - the story is a bit more complex - people are used to have context actions in the context menu - when you select a file, many files etc.
Lindsay Mathieson
@Aaron Seigo "but to do as we have with Plasma Active and make Share Like Connect a central part of the desktop."
How would that work with thinks like bookmarks? or contacts
I habitually run everything fullscreen, I very rarely see the desktop. Andything that relies on desktop access is a non starter for me.
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-27214" rel="nofollow">Lindsay Mathieson</a>: Desktop in this sense included the whole workspace - namely panels - where SLC should reside.
foxman09
Hey Ivan. I don't have that Activites option when I right click on a document. Using Kubuntu 12.04. How do I get that?
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-27221" rel="nofollow">foxman09</a>: When you see stuff on my blog (or most developers' blogs) you can freely think 'next KDE release or later' :)
In this case, it is the next release (4.9).
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