Armitage: The Future of Activities

KDE hacker Chani Armitage writes about KDE "activities" on her blog. Activities are part of a move towards a context-dependent desktop. Both Sugar's Activities and GNOME 3.0 workspaces have a similar focus, as we looked at back in May. "They’re just desktop containments, groups of plasmoids. They can have a name, but nothing makes use of that yet. What I think of as an "activity" is the entirety of what I'm working on at the moment — be it a kde-related project or a university course or just reading lots of comics. :) This activity includes several windows from several applications. It includes files needed for the project. It includes a set of plasmoids, like the one I put my list of math questions on and the calculator plasmoid to go with it. At times it includes only *part* of an application: show me school email folders when I'm doing schoolwork, hide the KDE lists so that I’m less tempted to procrastinate. ;)"

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