ON Topic Request For Opinions

[Bryan O'Neal]

I have been doing it with gnome since 2006. Not in front of a computer
rite now but google made it easy ;)

On 5/8/11, Brian Cluff <brian at snaptek.com> wrote:
> You can still do it in KDE 4.x, but you do it in a different way since
> the background is now provided by a plasma widgets (plasmoids).
>
> If you want to put different stuff, including backgrounds on each
> virtual desktop, just go to System Setting -> Workspace Behavior and
> pick the Virtual Desktops section from the left.  Then just check off
> "Different widgets for each desktop"
>
> Then all you have to do is setup a widget such as Desktop (The default),
> or folder view on each desktop and set the appropriate background for
> each desktop.  It's actually a LOT more versatile that the old way of
> doing things, although admittedly a lot less obvious.
>
> Better yet, setup a separate Activity and you can then flip back and
> forth between large sets of tasks opting to hide programs started on one
> activity from the other activities or not.
>
> This will also let you flip back and forth between a netbook type
> interface that you have dialed in for web activities and a more
> traditional desktop for other activities.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 05/08/2011 08:51 PM, ChasM Marshall wrote:
>> Hiya,
>>
>> I've had lots of fun installing distro after distro,
>> some of which have had severe limitations,
>> some of which are really well-thought-out systems.
>>
>> The window manager seems to contain my main Linux issue.
>> In ignorance of Unity, the one question I have for
>> experienced Linux folks only concerns the *workspace switcher*.
>> Or maybe you call it the *Desktop switcher*.
>> All the GUIs have it. None flaunt it. In fact, most are
>> now hiding it. New composting effects with Widgets prevent
>> users visualizing multiple Desktops. By that I mean:
>>
>> *Why is there no ability to set a different wallpaper to each Workspace?
>> *
>> IMHO only KDE 3.x can do this. (v.4.x removed it.)
>> The average Microsoft/"Power User"/ is floored when they see it.
>> Has Gnome ever been able to do this? Not that I've seen.
>>
>> It's my opinion that multi-workspace SHOULD *default* to multi-wallpaper.
>> And why not? What's your opinion?
>>
>> (-: Chas.M. :-)
>>
>>
>>
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