Tag: Activities

  • My Main Linux Activity Desktops

    My Main Linux Activity Desktops

    I just updated the Desktop Screenshot page. Here’s a gallery of my latest desktop with KDE 4:

  • An appeal for keeping KDE Activities

    As KDE 5 reaches 5.2 and many begin to debate its features (this is a small evolution on 4 compared to the difference between 3 and 4) there has been an ever-increasing assertion that Activities are pointless. (At least it appears that way to me) I wanted to share how I use Activities, why they…

  • Testing out KDE’s Activities

    Now that KDE 4.6 has finally landed in Fedora (KDE 4.6.1, to be precise) I can properly test activities.  I spoke before of how I planned to use them back in this post.  So let’s see how well it works in practice.  I think for my first activity, I will setup an activity for programming…

  • When KDE 4’s Activities Finally Made Sense

    I’ve been using KDE since November of 2010 around the time that 4.5 was released for Fedora. Around the time of 4.4, the KDE folks, especially Aaron Seigo and the rest of the Plasma team, started really pushing activities. I kept talking to people on identica and I couldn’t quite figure out the point of…