Ivan Čukić

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Author of "Functional Programming in C++", KDE developer and Free/Libre software enthusiast

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Functional Programming in C++

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Make your code readable. Pretend the next person who looks at your code is a psychopath and they know where you live.

-- Philip Wadler

Activities configuration, privacy, and all

Published by Ivan Čukić in the KDE development section, on 21 August 2012

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Comments:

jk
@<a href="#comment-27895" rel="nofollow">Eriol</a>:
lot of cruft come from oxygen theme..
is it possible to unclutter interfaces as in this 5 min mock-up? http://imgur.com/cZa8M am I a visionary?
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-27895" rel="nofollow">Eriol</a>: I agree. That is something that was talked about at the workspace-next sprint. Now, how many things will actually be developed, I don't know. We need new blood :)
jk
@<a href="#comment-27895" rel="nofollow">Eriol</a>:
kde usability group should be advised.
anyway system setting shell and modules' UI are an unholy mess as a whole.. and I really hope they will get fixed as soon as possible; such a benefit..
http://blog.tenstral.net/2012/02/kde-system-settings-usability.html http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?sid=86120c71e5d0fac2f2e3c82c8e096d0b&t=96374&start=15
Christian
Hi! I'm a relatively new KDE user (1 month or so) and I think activities could be really useful. Can you post a link to official documentation on how to use them? I've found only a handful of blog posts that describe how somebody uses them, but it is unclear what exactly an "activity" is and how to deal with windows that belong to more than one activity. Thanks!
http://hanschen.org/2009/11/17/how-do-you-use-activities/ http://yuenhoe.com/blog/2011/01/the-rise-of-plasma-activities-and-what-it-can-do-for-you/
Kyriakos Brastianos
@<a href="#comment-27894" rel="nofollow">Ivan Čukić</a>: Thanks for letting us know. Cheers.
Eriol
As much as I love these new features, and all stuff related to activities, I'm equally worried about how detached this experience feels from rest of the desktop (bit clashing and redundant in places too), and how confusing it is to new users. It really needs to be consolidated further and a lot exposure.
Ivan Čukić
4.9.x can receive only bugfixes, this will be a new feature, so it will be in the next release, whatever it will be called.
Kyriakos Brastianos
Is this for 4.9.x or comes with 4.10?
Kyriakos Brastianos
Very nice. Will make things easier and faster to set up and run new activities/projects.
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-27900" rel="nofollow">jk</a>: Probably, yeah (though not exactly like that). But it would need to be changed in the other modules as well.
Josh
Can we get an update on what version we should expect this in? thanks!
Ivan Čukić
@<a href="#comment-58467" rel="nofollow">Josh</a>: It is already in. For 4.10. (system settings -> workspace behaviour -> activities)

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