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Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by c-hendricks on Friday June 09, 2023 @03:48PM (#36263189)
Activities will get you things like:

- different task bar layouts for different activities

- different desktop widget layouts for different activities

- you can associate files with activities and Dolphin has a `currentactivity://` scheme (tho I do wish this could be extended to apps. As of now if you only want an app to be in a certain activity you've got some window rules to setup)

They live in an awkward place, since virtual desktops are a Linux WM thing while activities are just a KDE plasma thing.

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Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by prmoustache on Friday June 09, 2023 @07:33PM (#36265789)
I am not sure what is interesting in having different task layout but feel free to educate me.

As for widgets, I am still struggling to see the point of widgets (regardless of platform, it is the same for mobiles). Usually if I am in front of my computer screen, I will hace apps opened that will hide any kind if widgets. Or is it for people using 8k 120cm diagonals screens?

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Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by c-hendricks on Saturday June 10, 2023 @02:45PM (#36273585)
Not sure what's hard to imagine about different sets of icons in your taskbar. Quick example, your personal taskbar might have:

- Steam

- Youtube

- Plex

While for work you might have:

- A terminal

- Work chat

- Work ticketing system

- Your editor

I'll just link to a page about Activities since I'm just rehashing them: https://docs.kde.org/stable5/en/plasma-desktop/plasma-deskto...

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Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by thrixton on Sunday June 11, 2023 @07:52PM (#36286962)
This is a step in the right direction, if someone could come up with a simple enough but extensible enough de-facto standard for multiple “profile”, our lives would be immensely enriched.
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Re:Kera Desktop: open-source, cross-platform, web-based desk... by account42 on Monday June 12, 2023 @12:15PM (#36295924)
KDE already had per-virtual-desktop backgrounds before that feature was removed in favor of activities. There is no reason different widgets (both desktop and panel) couldn't have been added to virtual desktops instead.
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